The 'Morehoe man' is a paragon of virtue and strength, a lear sted for great thgs. But n he also be gay?
Contents:
- CAN A MOREHOE COLLEGE MAN BE OPENLY GAY?
- MOREHOE CELEBRAT FIRST GAY PRI
- MOREHOE COLLEGE TO OFFER NEW LGBT CLASS JANUARY AS MOV BEYOND ANTI-GAY PAST
- MOREHOE'S NON-TOLERANCE FOR GAYS
- MOREHOE COLLEGE CELEBRAT FIRST GAY ‘PRI WEEK’
- MOREHOE PRINT VOWS TO TALK TO STUNTS ON GAY ISSU
CAN A MOREHOE COLLEGE MAN BE OPENLY GAY?
Wh the openly gay muny at Atlanta's Morehoe College, There's a subgroup: Genr benrs who rock makp, Marc Jabs tote bags, sky-high heels and Beyoncé - style hair weav. Can a man of Morehoe be gay? Absolutely. But n he be a woman? Meet The Plastics. * morehouse gay *
Five current stunts talked to The Tenth to discs everythg om datg and iendship to homophobia and fdg alli at Morehoe. There are certaly gay Morehoe Men who've gone on to do great thgs that we don’t celebrate or talk about.
MOREHOE CELEBRAT FIRST GAY PRI
When I meet the brilliant and urageo gay mp activists at Morehoe now, I'm certa I annoy them. I do on purpose. Wh the zeal of a missnary and the honty of a madman, I ask, "Have you heard of Keiron Williams?" * morehouse gay *
Timothy T, sophomore english and spanish double major om Covgton, Geia: I thk the llege do an excellent job at producg men who want to be lears, men who are enterprisg, who are novative, men who f the part. I mean, there have been a few ocsns where I’ve overheard thgs that were qutnable but I haven’t had any sort of homophobia directed at me on mp.
I got an email some time last year where someone wrote to me that they felt like the paper was beg a gay anizatn. One of the guys was like “I don’t feel like homosexulay is natural and I thk gays are cursed and gog to Hell.
MOREHOE COLLEGE TO OFFER NEW LGBT CLASS JANUARY AS MOV BEYOND ANTI-GAY PAST
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I thk there are certa stunts who are homophobic but, as an stutn, Morehoe has done a lot to embrace the gay muny here and has ma efforts to support . Jared: You hear a lot about Morehoe’s transphobic drs or Morehoe havg a lot of gay or DL stunts, that the llege is homophobic.
I thk I’d be lyg to say that we don’t experience that or tra on to some I was a rtrant Midtown recently and there was group of gay guys stg at a table near me and my iend.
Some were out, some weren’t, but we found clost iends still are guys that who were my hman dorm, who were gay. Those iendships blossomed and I really appreciate the opportuny to have are some people here who are very vol alli to the gay muny.
MOREHOE'S NON-TOLERANCE FOR GAYS
My ncern though has always been about buildg iendships and muny wh other gay men bee I missed out on that prr to llege. 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.
MOREHOE COLLEGE CELEBRAT FIRST GAY ‘PRI WEEK’
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. Morehoe offered s first LGBT urse 2013 and has a scholars program named for the civil and gay rights in Bayard Rt.
William Bynum, Jr., vice print for Stunt Servic, to release a statement to several news outlets: “We are talkg about five stunts who are livg a gay liftyle that is leadg them to drs a way we do not expect Morehoe men. While the two adm that the relatnship between the Plastics and the straight muny is ght wh issu, they say the rt of the gay muny n be downright hostile.
While Rome sists that Morehoe needs to foc on equaly for all the gay muny, Phillip believ that this attu don’t apply to genr benrs like the Plastics. Gathered a two-bedroom, off-mp apartment are several members of Safe Space, an anizatn dited to supportg the gay muny at Morehoe, whether or not they flout the appropriate attire policy.
MOREHOE PRINT VOWS TO TALK TO STUNTS ON GAY ISSU
“There’s a homophobia even wh the gay muny—which is somethg we have to al wh if Morehoe is gog to progrs.
However— s velopment of a strong, black, ele brotherhood—nowhere s history were gay, and bisexual men clud. LGBTQ activists are listeng and so too is the Los Angel Tim wh s recent article Morehoe College fac s own bias —agast gays.
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.