Wele to the webse of the Yale School of Medice Dean’s Advisory Council on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex Affairs.
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WHY THEY LL YALE THE "GAY IVY"
Connectg Yale staff and faculty to foster a more welg and rpectful mp muny for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer dividuals and their alli.
Yale has been wily known as the Gay Ivy sce at least 1987, when Julie V. Iove ’77 clared the Wall Street Journal, "Sudnly Yale is a gay school.
Today, Yale's reputatn as the Gay Ivy is faiar to most stunts and younger alumni -- 's even clud Yale's entry on Wikipedia, that eful gui to the mon wisdom. What do "the Gay Ivy" mean?
GAY AT YALE
Yale probably do, however, have a higher proportn of gay stunts than other Ivi; there are no statistics, but many gay Yale stunts thk 's te. And if you walk around mp for a while on your vis, you may see a gay uple holdg hands.
For the central pot of the Gay Ivy tag is that Yale is a gay-iendly school. The mp is unually welg to gay and lbian stunts and has an active, multifaceted gay social scene. Yale was one of the last Ivi to create an office of LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer) rourc.
The current admistratn is gay-iendly, but Yale admistrators historilly have not sought to ph the envelope on the issu.
GAY AT YALE
Yale GALA (Gay and Lbian Alumni) jt held s first rnn, and the proment gay alumni who spoke clud Bce Cohen ’83, producer of Milk, and Larry Kramer ’57, thor of The Normal Heart.
Margaret Marshall ’76JD, who wrote the Massachetts Supreme Court cisn legalizg gay marriage, is also an alum. But Yale has many alumni who oppose pro-gay polici, such as Heather Mac Donald ’78, who cricized Yale the Weekly Standard for startg the LGBTQ rourc office; Maggie Gallagher ’82, print of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage; and the Right Reverend John Guernsey ’75, who joed his flock wh the Anglin Church of Uganda after the U. Epispal Church nsecrated an openly gay bishop.
Rather, was gay stunts themselv who changed Yale. For most of the twentieth century, Yale was a terrible place to be gay.
GAY AT YALE
In an say adapted om his keynote at the GALA rnn, Yale historian Gee Chncey ’77, ’89PhD, sketch that early history of alienatn and trac how s of effort by Yale's gay stunts drove a cultural shift. The Yale LGBTQ Affy Group was created 2008 to foster a more welg and rpectful mp muny for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer dividuals and their alli wh a primary foc on retentn and edifitn of Yale employe.
THE GAY FATHERS PROJECT
” LGBTQ rponnts, on the other hand, greatly outnumberd nservativ total: Acrdg to the survey, “nearly 5 percent [of rponnts] intify as gay and jt over 9 percent as bisexual or transsexual. MORE: Public universy’s ‘gay cultural studi’ giv amic cred for LGBT muny activism. View full imageFive years earlier, 1977, a group of had anized the first such week-long extravaganza, which we lled Gay Rights Week.
It was basilly one long effort to enurage people to e out: first by askg them to staff tabl outsi every llege dg hall -- where, ultimately, we llected 2, 000 signatur support of the Connecticut Gay rights bill; then by askg everyone to wear pk triangl (we were a b ahead of the curve, so we uldn't buy buttons and had to make them out of nstctn paper); and then by stagg the first-ever gay rally -- and dance -- on Cross Camp.
The rally drew a much larger crowd, fillg the lawn of Cross Camp wh gay stunts and straight supporters who leapt to their feet and cheered when Maia Ettger '83 (see "Generatns"), the most visible and outspoken lbian on mp, gave an electrifyg speech about the homophobia stunts faced.