Fordham's (Rose Hill) Gay/Lbian Populatn - Fordham Universy - College Confintial Foms

Contents:

• FORDHAM UNIVERSY VERED UP RAPE OF GAY NAVY STUNT, LAWSU ALLEG
• GAY LIFE AND FORDHAM?
• FORDHAM'S (ROSE HILL) GAY/LBIAN POPULATN
• FORDHAM'S (ROSE HILL) GAY/LBIAN POPULATN
• FORDHAM UNIVERSY VERED UP RAPE OF GAY NAVY STUNT, LAWSU ALLEG

FORDHAM UNIVERSY VERED UP RAPE OF GAY NAVY STUNT, LAWSU ALLEG

Fordham Universy allegedly vered up the rape of a gay former Naval trag stunt — who was attacked by the son of a high-rankg ary officer, acrdg to a new feral lawsu. Francis At, 30, of Illois, claims his “closeted homosexual” roommate — whose father was a “highly fluential attorney the U.

Gay life and Fordham? Fordham's (Rose Hill) Gay/Lbian Populatn - Fordham Universy - College Confintial Foms. Classmat had mocked me for actg gay sce elementary school, but took me years to adm that dread fact to myself.

GAY LIFE AND FORDHAM?

Neverthels, I doubted that gay sex ma sense om a moral pot of view. My parents worried when they saw me readg the Bible, pecially when I started tellg them what says about homosexualy. Still, the prospect of havg a boyiend, or even jt gay iends, thrilled me.

An alumna had told me that at Fordham's Lln Center mp (loted Hell’s Kchen, also known as the “gayborhood”), “basilly half of the guys are gay, ” and I soon disvered this was te. I was enthralled by the betiful gay men stg next to me class and uldn’t wa to attend the first meetg of the “Rabow Alliance”—a group wh the missn of providg LGBTQ stunts wh a “safe space” to explore their inty. At one of the first meetgs I attend, club lears ved to rerd vios about how even if people had mistreated you for your gay inty the past, “ will get better.

Pl wasn’t referrg to morn, lovg homosexual upl when he nmned arseonikoai, but to pagan temple prostutn. After readg Joseph Ratzger’s CDF “Halloween Letter” on homosexualy, the profsor told how ridiculoly archaic Ratzger’s reasong was, much to the light of the LGBT stunts the room. Later the semter, we read an say by a gay Prottant who had cid to give up livg a homosexual liftyle.

FORDHAM'S (ROSE HILL) GAY/LBIAN POPULATN

My profsor beltled this man’s cisn, claimg that his sense of “beg livered” om homosexualy was lnal. Eventually, I went to the unselg partment, hopg to talk to someone about homosexualy's moral implitns. I spent the summer after my hman year readg about different posns on homosexualy.

I had never before heard such a movg and reasonable acunt about someone choosg to accept the tradnal Christian teachg on homosexualy, while not beg ashamed of her attractn to women. What is the stutn actually givg s gay/SSA stunts?

What if they offered spirualy groups for gay stunts who wanted to live chastely? What if they ved celibate gay/SSA Catholic speakers like Ron Belg or Daniel Mattson to give prentatns? Until 2015, Baylor Universy listed homosexualy as a punishable offense unr s sexual misnduct policy.

FORDHAM'S (ROSE HILL) GAY/LBIAN POPULATN

LGBTQ stunts uld not publicly display affectn for their partners and uld face disciplary procr for engagg “homosexual acts. After a drawn-out appeal procs to achieve their release, the rerds turned out to be urt proceedgs om a 1920 universy vtigatn to gay men and their associatns at Harvard. The Secret Court fil reveal several weeks of terrogatns that began after the suici of a gay stunt and aimed to expose a gay muny at the school.

Admistrators targeted stunts that they observed enterg specific dorm rooms, equentg bars and rtrants known to be gay meetg plac, and those who did not strictly adhere to mascule genr norms their clothg and behavr. Deliberatns by several universy officials rulted the expulsn of seven unrgraduat, the termatn of several employe, and a send suici of a gay stunt. Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Camp Homosexuals.

The universy’s polici were generally nsistent wh the popular beliefs about gay men at the time: “While the 1920s beme known as a perd of sexual liberatn, the new eedom was for young women and did not apply to homosexuals. Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Camp Homosexuals, 82. Early twentieth-century officials, doctors, and relig lears characterized homosexualy as a disease, addn to a moral problem.

FORDHAM UNIVERSY VERED UP RAPE OF GAY NAVY STUNT, LAWSU ALLEG

Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Camp Homosexuals, 29. A an who wished to “rce the chanc of another outbreak” was stmental targetg close iends and roommat of gay stunts, suggtg he believed homosexualy functned as a ntag disease. Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Camp Homosexuals, 169.

Police operatns around this time equently targeted urban gay tablishments and meetg plac, creasg public wars of a secretive gay unrworld. Much of the early 20th century upper-class acknowledged the existence of the LGBTQ muny but, bee they viewed homosexualy as a disease and moral problem, believed that s members rid low-e muni separate om their own and that immoral acts did not occur their neighborhoods and stutns. This was likely the mdset of universy officials who saw Harvard’s gay muny as an ftatn and a threat to stunt safety.

To al wh a gay “problem” at the school, officials employed polici to remove the offendg stunts as quickly as possible and prevent them om enterg other universi.