Gay and Greek: The experience of beg gay and a aterny

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Kg-to Yng, Mdy Stombler, Gay and Greek: The Inty Paradox of Gay Fraterni, Social Problems, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Feb., 2000), pp. 134-152

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THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF AN AMERIN FRATERNY

The issu that once kept straight men and gay men apart are dissolvg, real life and popular culture. * gay straight fraternity *

No, this is a story about thgs I saw and heard and experienced, but don’t end wh me steppg bravely forward and proudly clarg my homosexualy to the world and fdg my place .

Some of the iends did turn out to be gay, though I had no ia at the time, as they, I thk, had srcely any ia about me. Afterward, my broad-shoulred stoner iend sually told Jason that “What we did was okay, bee I heard you have to do three tim wh a guy to make you gay. In the aterny which I belonged, a small subset of iends began referrg to the annual fall visatn of alumni as “Homog Weekend.

MY ATERNY YEARS AS AN OUT GAY MAN

By the time I graduated 1987, I had been through a few Homog Weekends and taken the long walk wh several of my olr aterny brothers, who would awkwardly nfs to beg gay. I was too uptight about my own sexualy and this sort of thg h entirely too close to home (homo?

But he left no doubt that he was totally gay, and ma me unfortable when he looked to my ey wh that perceptive visn of his. “But the guy’s a homosexual, and there are guys who say they’re gog blackball him to prevent him om gettg a bid, ” I was told. And after all, if I took a strong posn on the matter, someone might assume I was gay, and I was not gog to let that happen!

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Much later Marc would fd out I was gay too, spe my self-protective measur, and he would be very supportive, god bls him.

GAY AND GREEK: THE EXPERIENCE OF BEG GAY AND A ATERNY

If we we’re gog to blackball a gay guy jt bee he’s gay, then we’re not really about diversy at all, are we? Stori of the “gay murr” Lock Haven, Pennsylvania appeared everywhere, and were read by lns the big cy newspapers Philalphia and Ptsburgh.

YOU’RE NOT BREAKG BARRIERS BY BEG GAY A ATERNY

Well, I don’t want to overstate , but ’s clear that Mike – like most gay people – had been eply and adversely effected by the closet s and homophob that surround him.

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