Contents:
- LETTER TO THE EDOR: A WLEYAN GAY ROMANCE
- UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE
- KEEPG A STR8 FACE: GAY SEX, STRAIGHT MEN, AND HETERO PERFORMATIVY
- WLEYAN LBIAN/GAY SCENE
- GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN: A WLEYAN PERSPECTIVE
LETTER TO THE EDOR: A WLEYAN GAY ROMANCE
The General Board of The Wleyan Church voted on November 17, 2021, to appot a team of Wleyan scholars and mistry practners to rewre posn paper, “A Wleyan View of Homosexualy, ” origally adopted May 2011. Comg to terms wh gay feelgs is difficult this society, but pecially at Wleyan. Communy who feels that s/he is predomantly or exclively gay are ved to the next meetg.
UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE
The impet for the formatn of the Wleyan Gay Group advertised here me om an article published the Arg Febary of 1974. The article was a reprt of an say wrten by Stuart Byron ’63, scribg what was like to be gay at Wleyan durg the pre-Stonewall era. This was the first signifint discsn of homosexualy to be published the Arg.
KEEPG A STR8 FACE: GAY SEX, STRAIGHT MEN, AND HETERO PERFORMATIVY
Like on any llege mp, homosexualy was nsired a perversn, but a mon one. In 1959 Daniel Webster Cory, a noted “expert on the homosexual, ” gave a talk as part of a seri of lectur about “Amerin Outsts.
The John Wley Club, an anizatn for stunts who chose not to jo a aterny, was equently acced of harborg homosexualy; siar accatns were ma of the Alpha Delta Phi and Eclectic Fraterni. Amilly, the burgeong new field of Film Studi, was an attractn for many gay men.
WLEYAN LBIAN/GAY SCENE
Robert Mart ’63 wrote, a Herm article thirty years later, that “film studi provid a space for gay culture.
GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN: A WLEYAN PERSPECTIVE
” Stuart Byron himself would later bee a screenwrer and film cric for the Village Voice, as well as an early member of the Gay Liberatn movement New York.