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MY ATERNY YEARS AS AN OUT GAY MAN
The Syrace Universy chapter of Theta T was spend this week after the school’s newspaper, the Daily Orange, published shockg vios of at boys makg racist, homophobic, anti-semic oaths and engagg tly plorable behavr. Related: Rich Frat Boy Says He’s The Real Victim In Antigay Tira Agast Uber Driver, Plans To File Lawsu Agast The “Mimum Wage F*ggot”. The vios also clu simulatns of oral sex, masturbatn, glory hol, and dg e, and crackg homophobic jok: “Get together and [talk] about their signifint others while drkg different w and talkg gay girly accents!
Related: Frat Boy Dish On What It’s Like To Be Gay And Greek. Wh theater doors bolted shut for the next…foreeable future, we’re thrilled to see some Broadway talent pop up the pilot episo of Boy•Friends, a new edy based off the My Gay Boyiend web-seri.
The show centers around two llege roommat, one gay and one straight, and their “journey through llege and to adulthood to bee the homo-hetero power uple of the ag. Class, and the odd profsor, on his way to teach , who all knew I'd jt “shacked, ” a term ually rerved to slut-shame sorory women but which was applied jt as egregly to me, the out gay man who wasn't Greek but sperately wished he were. When I me out my Appalachian high school at 15, my male classmat provid a daily ccible of homophobia.
THE 'GAY' SI OF HAZG
I was lled “cksucker, ” “fudgepacker” and “homo” more often than I was lled by my name.
Even as a gay man, my sexual currency was fed through heterosexualy. The sex was eher borgly heteronormative, like the top-tier aterny man who wanted me to lie there silently as he thst and out of me, leavg $50 on my nightstand as he left bee he thought I “need” , or vlently homophobic, as wh the man om the “date rape aterny” who liked to smack me the face and sp on me, remdg me what a ltle queer I am. In their book, this was nothg short of a party foul; I had ed the “good tim wh the gay boy” by volvg feelgs, somethg they uld never five.
I see Greek life as a system that upholds the opprsive stctural forc of racism, sexism, classism and homophobia, and my head I n nstct exactly why aterni and sorori are such pernic stutns. This might be a faiar scene at Ole Miss or UVA, but ’s somewhat exotic a Manhattan gay bar.