At 1 p.m. demonstrators dispersed and about 150 women marched back to the Center after a report on the radio that the injunction had been ordered.

At 1:30 p.m., Ralph Benz, Special Sheriff for Middlesex County, made the first attempt to serve the women with the injunction. He said, "We're not here to arrest anyone, just to serve a process," but he was shouted down and left without reading the injunction.

Officials returned at 3:20 p.m. accompanied by four Harvard policemen. David Steiner, an attorney for Harvard, read the injunction over a loudspeaker despite organized shouting by the women who had barricaded themselves in the building.

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After reading the injunction, Steiner climbed the steps and pushed a copy through the maillot in the door of the building.

During the day the women attempted to continue with programs they have set up in the Center. despite the constant interruptions from officials and reporters.

A plexiglass bulletin board in the front room of the Center listed activities that ranged from exercises at 10 a.m. to a silkscreening workshop and karate lessons.

Besides the scheduled activities, the women met several times during the day to discuss possible resistance tactics in the event of a police bust.

To simply charge that there are tensions between gay and straight women occupying the center is to evade the issue, just as to say that there are tensions between white and black students without mentioning racism would be evading the issue.

Of course there are tensions; our entire society is permeated by stereotyping of homosexuals, and when homosexuals openly affirm their homosexuality the distortions and fears behind the stereotypes also come out into the open. But when any woman feels upset by the presence of gay women, she should acknowledge her feelings, discuss them with other women, and try to understand where her feelings come from.

Just as we can only begin to understand the black liberation movement by confronting the racism in ourselves, so we can only unite with all women for our own liberation when we have confronted and dealt with our fears of gay women.