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Bailey, Kevin
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Kevin Bailey started out as a Chemistry major at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in the mid-1980s. He was elected secretary of Gay Student Services (GSS) in 1984 and later became the organization’s historian and archivist. In the late 1980s, Kevin took some time off from school to work and travel, returning to complete his MIS degree in 1993. After the 1976 GSS lawsuit for campus recognition bounced through the courts and the District Court’s pro-TAMU decision was overturned, the case in August 1984 was bound for the Supreme Court. In the wake of the Appeals Court’s decision to overturn the District Court’s ruling, Bailey, and newly elected GSS president, Marco Roberts, mobilized a publicity campaign for the organization. GSS had grown and matured by the mid-eighties with most of its founding members graduated. Internal tensions and personality conflicts were rife in the GSS during this time.