Yale's Coveted Tle: The Gay Ivy

Contents:

• WHY THEY LL YALE THE "GAY IVY"
• IVY LEAGUE GAY ATHLET
• GAY ROO SPOTLIGHTED ONE-NIGHT-ONLY EVENT
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

WHY THEY LL YALE THE "GAY IVY"

Yale has been wily known as the Gay Ivy sce at least 1987, when Julie V. 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. 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.

IVY LEAGUE GAY ATHLET

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.

GAY ROO SPOTLIGHTED ONE-NIGHT-ONLY EVENT

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. 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. 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.

This event has passed8 attenGroup lksRelated topicsCollege AlumniGayLbianGay ProfsnalsLGBTGay and Lbian FriendsLGBT SocialProfsnal Lbian WomenIvy League. The school, which sred a 40/100 on the AEI, boasts among s alumni the first openly gay male profsnal team sport athlete history.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

An Ivy Leaguer is among the ducte the gural class for the Natnal Gay & Lbian Sports Hall of Fame. We’ve wrten before about Andrew Goldste, the former openly gay All-Amerin Dartmouth College lacrosse player who beme the first openly gay player to play a profsnal male team sport North Ameri when he was drafted by the Boston Cannons and later peted (albe briefly) for the Long Island Lizards of Major League Lacrosse.