"We're only 11 people and we can't do everything," says Jeffrey P. Morgan '02, who is a member of BGLTSA's executive board. "It's very difficult for us to continue with these issues when it seems like no one else cares."
By all estimations, the group's active members are almost entirely male and almost entirely white.
And board members acknowledge this hinders the group's effectiveness.
"We can speak for the gay community to the extent, and only to the extent that our members participate," says Daniel Tremitiere '03, vice chair of the group.
Board members say that BGLTSA leaders typically have more forceful ideological commitments on issues surrounding gay life at Harvard than the gay community at large. The most interested become the most involved.
"They're gay and they're activists," Kevin A. Shapiro '00, who is a former editor of The Salient, says of the BGLTSA board. "Those things are eminently separable. You don't have to do both."
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