This Footage of a Gay Pool Party 1945 Inspired a New Documentary

Contents:

• THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF AN AMERIN FRATERNY
• TENNSEE STUNTS SAY THEY WERE KICKED OUT OF AT PARTY FOR BEG GAY

THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF AN AMERIN FRATERNY

But I soon cid I was too gay, too ol, and too “progrsive” for that keg-soaked scene and, as soon as I uld, moved to New York Cy (along wh everybody else gay, ol, and progrsive), where when people talk about “Greek life, ” they ually mean their trip to Mykonos. At least not I most fely was not at a aterny for two stunts who attempted to attend a aterny party at the Universy of Memphis, beg outwardly gay - or for beg gay - or perceived to be gay - or mored to be gay - was a triment.

Hopefully, progrs ntu, and one day brgs to an end to the era of macho at boys and closeted gay guys. We n't jt bsh a broad stroke and label all at boys and athlet homophob. But, for those few who are fervently antigay, they reprent one of two s pictg two very different double liv of some at boys and gay men on llege one si of the hate-filled at boy , you have those who nduct themselv well class, and around mp, but when they are wh their brothers and their peers, particularly at parti, that drastilly flips, revealg ugly nduct.

And while we're learng about the cint at the Universy of Memphis, how many other gay stunts have been nied accs, not jt to parti, but to a secretly non-clive aterny that might have among s ranks those who sisterly mock, gra, vilify and sissify gays? For most closeted gay men on mp, there exists a different one si, for example, is the shield of a football broadster, sports edor, stunt senator, the gregar partier, and on the other the shield of secln - a closeted gay stunt who don't dare reveal his te nature for fear of beg shunned by peers, and at parti.

TENNSEE STUNTS SAY THEY WERE KICKED OUT OF AT PARTY FOR BEG GAY

The quietly gay men ntue to hear about the stgg news of cints of bigotry, hate crime beatgs around mp, and tragic, vastatg suicis of gay llege stunts. What if they knew I was gay? We now have prom kgs who are gay, prom queens who are drag queens, and prom queens who are simply proudly have out llegiate athlet, stunt lears and gay aterni; however, some s our openns hs a wall, and those walls are those brick-led at ho that s forebodgly on the edge of llege mp and on the edge of our n still ny.

Contued exposure and g forward n help ero the lter of the two, we n only hope that someday there is ls loose change the antigay at boys piggy bank and ls ppers the closeted gay penny Casey is a PR profsnal and an Adjunct Profsor at Wagner College New York Cy, and a equent lumnist for The Advote. 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.