“Yale is the ‘gay ivy’ — but ’s not necsarily the ‘queer ivy.’”
Contents:
- WHY THEY LL YALE THE "GAY IVY"
- THE “GAY” IVY? : A QUEER REPUTATN
- GAY MEN’S FEARS OF LONG-TERM ROMANCE
- YALE GALA LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR ALUMNI ASSOCIATN
- THE GAY FATHERS PROJECT
- CLDE GAY TO BE HARVARD’S 1ST BLACK PRINT, 2ND WOMAN
- YALE GAY AND LBIAN ALUMNI NEW YORK CY CHAPTER
WHY THEY LL YALE THE "GAY IVY"
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Connectg Yale staff and faculty to foster a more welg and rpectful mp muny for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer dividuals and their alli. Today, Yale's reputatn as the Gay Ivy is faiar to most stunts and younger alumni -- 's even clud Yale's entry on Wikipedia, that eful gui to the mon wisdom.
Yale probably do, however, have a higher proportn of gay stunts than other Ivi; there are no statistics, but many gay Yale stunts thk 's te.
The mp is unually welg to gay and lbian stunts and has an active, multifaceted gay social scene. Yale was one of the last Ivi to create an office of LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer) rourc. The current admistratn is gay-iendly, but Yale admistrators historilly have not sought to ph the envelope on the issu.
THE “GAY” IVY? : A QUEER REPUTATN
Wele to the webse of the Yale School of Medice Dean’s Advisory Council on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex Affairs. * yale gay *
Yale GALA (Gay and Lbian Alumni) jt held s first rnn, and the proment gay alumni who spoke clud Bce Cohen ’83, producer of Milk, and Larry Kramer ’57, thor of The Normal Heart.
GAY MEN’S FEARS OF LONG-TERM ROMANCE
The night June 1969 that gay men fought police raidg the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village marked the begng of wir acceptance of male homosexuals. * yale gay *
Margaret Marshall ’76JD, who wrote the Massachetts Supreme Court cisn legalizg gay marriage, is also an alum.
YALE GALA LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR ALUMNI ASSOCIATN
Yale GALA is an tnal and cultural anizatn that seeks to promote the well-beg and betterment of the Yale Universy gay and lbian muny, cludg alumni, faculty, stunts and the public at large. * yale gay *
But Yale has many alumni who oppose pro-gay polici, such as Heather Mac Donald ’78, who cricized Yale the Weekly Standard for startg the LGBTQ rourc office; Maggie Gallagher ’82, print of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage; and the Right Reverend John Guernsey ’75, who joed his flock wh the Anglin Church of Uganda after the U.
In an say adapted om his keynote at the GALA rnn, Yale historian Gee Chncey ’77, ’89PhD, sketch that early history of alienatn and trac how s of effort by Yale's gay stunts drove a cultural shift. The Yale LGBTQ Affy Group was created 2008 to foster a more welg and rpectful mp muny for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer dividuals and their alli wh a primary foc on retentn and edifitn of Yale employe. The pot ronated wh several queer stunts terviewed for this article, who said the elevated visibily of cisgenr gay men — and, more specifilly, whe cisgenr gay men — at the expense of other LGBTQ groups at Yale.
THE GAY FATHERS PROJECT
Alex Borsa ’16, print of the LGBT Co-op at Yale, put the matter ncisely: “Yale is the ‘gay ivy’ — but ’s not necsarily the ‘queer ivy. The Whiffs prent “a very qutsential image … of the whe gay Yale man, ” Anjali Balakrishna ’14 said. Hilary O’Connell ’14, former print of the Co-op, observed, “I jt hear trope after trope about the a ppella gays.
CLDE GAY TO BE HARVARD’S 1ST BLACK PRINT, 2ND WOMAN
They (O’Connell prefers the pronouns “they, ” “them” and “their”) nsir the “a ppella gay” an exclnary typest.
YALE GAY AND LBIAN ALUMNI NEW YORK CY CHAPTER
Six LGBTQ stunts terviewed said the disproportnate visibily of gay men — and the nsequent visibily of other queer groups — stands the way of regnn. For those ls faiar wh termology ed by the movement, the distctn between “queer” and “gay” may seem fe, but ’s an important one to make: “queer” is at once more polil and all-enpassg than “gay, ” which scrib only same-sex, cisgenr tennci.
Javier Cienfuegos ’15, who was one of only two openly gay mal his high school, said Yale tght him to embrace the term “queer, ” even though he ed to be very unfortable wh .