Gay and Greek: The Inty Paradox of Gay Fraterni on JSTOR

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.

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.

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

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.

MY ATERNY YEARS AS AN OUT GAY MAN

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.

THE INS AND OUTS OF BEG GAY A SORORY

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

“I didn’t thk the whole, beg a at and beg gay went together at all, ” Ohlger said.

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

GAY MEN BLACK FRATERNI

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