Harvard Medical School
Being out as lesbian wasn't easy when Jennifer Potter attended Harvard Medical School in the 1980s.
- By STEPHANIE DUTCHEN
The curriculum she encountered didn't include material on sexuality. Her coursework didn't address LGBTQ health disparities except in a unit about HIV/AIDS, which was just emerging at the time, or how to provide affirming care for LGBTQ patients.
The culture around her didn't offer much reprieve. Although two queer students had started a club the year before she enrolled, Potter was still the only out student in her class. She watched a dean take down a flyer announcing one of the club's meetings. A classmate audibly prayed for Potter each morning as she walked to her seat in the lecture hall.
"It was incredibly lonely," she recalled.
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