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Contents:

• GAY AND GREEK: THE EXPERIENCE OF BEG GAY AND A ATERNY
• GAY GREECE: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??
• THE LAMBDA: ALL THGS GAY & FRATERNAL
• MY ATERNY YEARS AS AN OUT GAY MAN
• THE INS AND OUTS OF BEG GAY A SORORY
• I WAS A GAY AT BOY. THE “HORRIFIC CINT” AT BUCKNELL UNIVERSY’S FRAN’S HOE WAS NOT AN ANTI-LGBT ATTACK
• “ANYBODY HAVE A PROBLEM WH THAT?” LEADG A ATERNY AS A GAY MAN
• GAY MEN BLACK FRATERNI

GAY AND GREEK: THE EXPERIENCE OF BEG GAY AND A ATERNY

Vlent bate, enthiastic wrgs, shamefaced silence, flights of fantasy: few aspects of ancient society are so hotly ntted as Greek perasty, or - as we shall see below - homosexualy.

Dover published his fluential book Greek Homosexualy 1978, an avalanche of new studi has appeared. The synchronistic approach: scholars ncentrate upon homosexualy fifth and fourth-century Athens, where was tegral part of social life.

GAY GREECE: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??

There are many sourc of evince: lyril poetry, vas, statu, myths, philosophil treatis, speech, scriptns, medil texts, tragedi, edi, curs (example), and anecdot which homosexual practic are mentned, ld, ignored, and sometim disuraged.

The often outspoken poems and the philosophy of Plato (427-347) have rulted our exprsn "Greek prcipl" to scribe male homosexualy. In ancient Greece, there never was a word to scribe homosexual practic: they were simply part of aphrodisia, love, which clud men and women alike.

THE LAMBDA: ALL THGS GAY & FRATERNAL

Prostutn, which was an important aspect of Athenian life, had ltle to do wh male domance; nor was - and this is important - Greek homosexualy rtricted to perasty between a domant adult and a shy boy. It is now clear that homosexualy was not rtricted to perasty, and that we have to study our evince more refully. Another objectn to the tradnal renstctn of Athenian homosexualy is that there is simply no evince that the prents shown on vas had any pedagogic or didactic value.

It is not te that homosexual love for boys was an aristocratic phenomenon. On the ntrary, there appears to be an crease of perastic and other homosexual reprentatns. After all, homo-erotic love is related to tn and gag knowledge, and this mak superr to other typ of love.

But, rather, Ohlger thought he wouldn’t be wele the aterny once the brothers found out he was gay. “I didn’t thk the whole, beg a at and beg gay went together at all, ” Ohlger said.

MY ATERNY YEARS AS AN OUT GAY MAN

He was always tellg people he was homophobic, jt that kd of person, ” Ohlger said. “And I fet what he said exactly, but he said ‘I jt wanted to say I hope you sh the hoe, bee you ma me qutn what I always thought (about gay people).

“So what I was thkg, ” Ohlger said, “what really me down to was, if I uld change the opn of how 60 straight at guys viewed one gay person, or the whole gay muny, while I hung out wh my bt iends and had a really good time, why wouldn’t I do ?

His ial ncern that aterny life and beg gay don’t mix ronat throughout the LGBT muny. Numero other gay men who are aterni are eher not out to their entire hoe or only out to a select few.

THE INS AND OUTS OF BEG GAY A SORORY

Their reasons for wantg to rema anonymo are all the same — that most or all of their brothers don’t know they are gay.

Steve pots to what he lls the “du culture” as the reason many gay men are not fortable g out their aterni. Steve said that this “du culture” often tim lends to the perceptn that the Greek system on mp is homophobic. He said, however, that om his experience, when you view on an dividual level, most of the aterny members the IFC aren’t unacceptg of gay people.

I WAS A GAY AT BOY. THE “HORRIFIC CINT” AT BUCKNELL UNIVERSY’S FRAN’S HOE WAS NOT AN ANTI-LGBT ATTACK

“Whenever someone starts jerkg around and sayg (homophobic) thgs, but not necsarily meant to be rogatory, that kd of feeds to those perceptns.

He spoke about his thought procs behd tellg some of his brothers that he is gay. “But you know you need to put up some sort of faça, ’s part of somethg that you learn growg up that most people, most gay guys do and I’ve talked to other gay guys who are the same way.

Greg, a junr an IFC aterny, hasn’t yet e out to anyone his aterny except for one other brother who is also gay. One major factor that ntribut to the perpetuatn of the Greek stereotype on mp is the lack of visibily of gay stunts aterni. Bee many gay stunts feel unfortable g out to their brothers and, turn, don’t e out, people both si and outsi the Greek muny are unaware gay members exist wh the system.

“ANYBODY HAVE A PROBLEM WH THAT?” LEADG A ATERNY AS A GAY MAN

Javier, who me out to his aterny brothers as an unrgraduate at Rockhurst Universy Kansas Cy, Mo., spoke about the stereotyp and perceptns that surround the Greek muny and the psychology behd why many gay stunts feel unfortable g out. “There’s been gay marriage proposals a variety of stat sce that survey, so I thk maybe that fluenc peopl’ perceptns of how they teract wh the LGBT muny, but I don’t know how much or if has at all, ” Parrz said. “One of the reasons straight-intified men don’t intify as alli is bee they don’t want to be mistaken, quote unquote mistaken, as gay, ” Javier said.

“They don’t want to be perceived as gay, so that’s a road block to someone who actually do re about LGBT people. But they meet you and they see you’re ol, like all of a sudn beg gay isn’t some weird thg, some strange alien, not some crazy thg they’ve jt hear about, ” Ohlger said.

The Gay Greece muny has started to show their need to be equal like others, a lot of s before.

GAY MEN BLACK FRATERNI

Athens Pri has as s ma objective the SLK visibily and pri, ALKE and the Associatn for the Support of Consecrat foc on stutnal claims, such as the expansn of polil marriage and habatn to gay upl, the creatn or extensn of laws to protect the people of Lebanon om hatred and vlence and full medil support for transsexuals volved genr reassignment, while the Lbian Group of Athens publish the extraordary magaze “Dalika” and engag screengs, parti century discsns aimed at the strength of lbian inty. Athens n now easily be regnized as a gay-iendly cy, worthy of my way by other ci Europe. This is due to the number of shops that have been opened recent years and are maly targeted at gay clients, makg Athens acquire s own lorful areas.