Morehoe Print Vows To Talk to Stunts on Gay Issu ATLANTAAn attack on a stunt last month at Morehoe College led to talk around the mp about homophobia and a ll om a natnal anizatn for the school to addrs the issue publicly. Sophomore Aaron Price was charged wh aggravated asslt for the baseball bat […]
Contents:
- CAN A MOREHOE COLLEGE MAN BE OPENLY GAY?
- DISCUSSION: MOREHOE’S “CROSS” DRS CO STIRS CONTROVERSY IN ATL GAY COMMUNY
- MOREHOE PRINT VOWS TO TALK TO STUNTS ON GAY ISSU
CAN A MOREHOE COLLEGE MAN BE OPENLY GAY?
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Crews falsely told another stunt that he had e out to him as gay.
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In 2002 a Morehoe junr was beaten wh a baseball bat by another Morehoe stunt, what was seen as an anti-gay attack. “Adodi is the stoppg pot for a lot of people g to llege lookg to get that exposure to the gay muny that they might not have elsewhere, ” he said.
DISCUSSION: MOREHOE’S “CROSS” DRS CO STIRS CONTROVERSY IN ATL GAY COMMUNY
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The stunt, which Buzzfeed News intified as 20-year-old Michael Key, says Crews attempted to force him to e out as gay. “When I heard, I was super exced, ” said queer Morehoe sophomore and activist Daniel Galberth. In a subsequent lawsu, Love acced the school of fosterg a climate that promot homophobia.
His su claimed that “Morehoe had failed to addrs the harassment of stunts believed to be homosexual; had fostered an atmosphere of hatred and vlence toward such stunts. In 2002, the school lnched s first gay-straight alliance group, SafeSpace.
However— s velopment of a strong, black, ele brotherhood—nowhere s history were gay, and bisexual men clud. And now, more than a century later, gay and bisexual Morehoe men are still stgglg to be accepted. LGBTQ activists are listeng and so too is the Los Angel Tim wh s recent article Morehoe College fac s own bias —agast gays.
MOREHOE PRINT VOWS TO TALK TO STUNTS ON GAY ISSU
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Wh more and more stunts of Brewer’s generatn arrivg on mp openly gay or bisexual, Morehoe’s admistratn ntu to lack the cultural petence and sensivy to addrs the issue, leavg stunts wh only one optn for how to be a Morehoe man. But is Morehoe’s highly publicized 2002 gay-bashg cint that has damaged s image, and has, sadly, tght the admistratn very ltle. On November 4, 2002, a Morehoe College stunt staed a actured skull om his classmate, sophomore Aaron Price; not surprisgly the son of an ultra-nservative mister.
Stunts are very wary of any actn that uld be misnsted as a gay overture, ” sophomore Mubarak Guy, who is a iend of Price’s, told the AJC 2002. Durg the arguments for and agast nvictg Price of the state’s first hate crime, Assistant Fulton County District Attorney Holly Hugh asked the jury to remember the words Price allegedly uttered “when he beat his victim wh a baseball bat: ‘Faggot, you’re gay, gay … I hate the Morehoe faggots. But Kg had his own problems wh gay men.
Sadly, Bayard Rt, the gay man who was chief anizer and strategist for the 1963 March on Washgton that further tapulted Kg onto the world stage, was not the beneficiary of Kg’s dream.
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At the time, Kg was also volved a major challenge to the nservative learship of the Natnal Baptist Conventn, and one of his misterial litenants the fight was also gay. Dpe the fact that Walter Massey, then-print of Morehoe noted, a mp-wi addrs that, “homophobia is not a new topic at Morehoe, ” ltle has changed. After the 2002 beatg, gay stunts formed a support group, Safe Space, which Brewer belongs to.
In the ’80s and ’90s was more dangero to be openly gay and bisexual on Morehoe’s mp than was on the streets of black neighborhoods.
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Jafari Sclaire Allen, a profsor at Universy of Texas was an openly gay stunt at Morehoe the late 1980s and early 1990s. He rells fleeg mp one eveng after a fom signed to addrs homophobia turned vlently homophobic.
Unsurprisgly, perhaps, Morehoe was listed on the Prceton Review’s top 20 homophobic mp throughout the 1990s.
But homophobic cints at Morehoe speak to a larger issue plagug men of Ain scent this untry—acknowledgg their sexualy. Wh the domant culture’s inography of black male sexualy rangg om sexual predator to pornographic object, both the domant heterosexual and the gay culture’s fear and fascatn wh black male sexualy may satisfy racist paranoid fantasi, but also strips men of Ain scent of both their posssn of their sexualy as well as the language to safely exprs . Gay whe Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s notor “Man a Polyter Su” matas the stereotypil nventn of black male sexualy as a monstro phall that is dangero, out of ntrol and animalistic.