Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Center | Camp Life

Contents:

• GAY LIFE AT PRCETON?
• PRCETON BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, GAY AND LBIAN ALUMNI
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR CENTER
• LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS PRCETON, NJ
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS PRCETON, NJ
• “WEAR ’EM”: PRCETON UNIVERSY’S FIRST GAY JEANS DAY
• GAY LIFE
• WANDA GAY REECE OBUARY

GAY LIFE AT PRCETON?

Formerly the LGBT Center, the Genr + Sexualy Rource Center (GSRC), supports and empowers lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual stunts and employe by providg muny-buildg, tn, events, and iativ. gay life at prceton? Prceton Bisexual, Transgenr, Gay and Lbian Alumni.

PRCETON BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, GAY AND LBIAN ALUMNI

Through activi both on and off mp, The Fund for Rnn/Prceton BTGALA Inc., is voted to improvg the qualy of life for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people at Prceton Universy and to strengtheng their ti as alumni wh each other and wh the Universy. Further exploratns led me to New York, where, of urse, a large gay unrground flourished.

I also knew some gay guys my class and on the swim team.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR CENTER

The history of the perd between the end of World War II and Stonewall has been wrten; I hope the long-promised history of gay life at Prceton now will emerge. I wrote to Jonathan Ned Katz the ’80s about the slowns of Prceton’s adjtment to activism for gay rights.

Midway through his sophomore year, Peter Gray ’60 got lucky his choice of iends.

Gray was one of 16 LGBT alumni om the class of the 1950s and ’60s — 15 gay men and one transgenr woman — who agreed to speak to me over the past few months about their experienc at Prceton.

LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS PRCETON, NJ

In advance of Prceton’s first LGBT alumni nference, April 11–13, I wanted to talk to gay alumni who me of age before the begng of the morn gay-rights movement — and whose generatnal history often is overlooked as that movement march forward. If you went to Prceton durg their era and you’re not gay, there’s a good chance that the gay liv of your classmat would have been visible to you durg your llege years. And if you’ve dwelled on the subject the s sce graduatn, you may have found yourself thkg that their sexual orientatns mt have been so circumscribed, so reprsed, that beg gay uld not possibly have played much of a role their Prceton experience.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS PRCETON, NJ

The ner and outer gay liv of Prcetonians durg the 1950s and ’60s were ed circumscribed.

“WEAR ’EM”: PRCETON UNIVERSY’S FIRST GAY JEANS DAY

FOR THE ALUMNI I INTERVIEWED, the tought challenge durg our nversatns often me tryg to expla what had meant to be gay at a time when they had no language to scribe such a thg.

Durg the 1950s and ’60s, the existence of gay people at Prceton wasn’t only visible and nceivable to many straight people. It was also visible and nceivable to many gay stunts themselv. At Prceton, “there wasn’t any such ncept as gay, ” rells Dick Limog ’60.

I had no sense of what really meant to be gay, the way that people unrstand that today.

GAY LIFE

” Says Daniel Massad ’69: “I had no unrstandg of myself as beg gay when I entered Prceton. Many gay Prcetonians simply didn’t know any other gay people — or at least they thought they didn’t.

“Gayns at the time, at least my experience, was viewed as what some strange people Greenwich Village did.

WANDA GAY REECE OBUARY

“I viewed myself as homosexual. I would not walk across mp once whout wonrg whether someone thought the way I was walkg was gay. And bee she is attracted to women, she did not experience some of the challeng faced by the gay alumni I terviewed.

Some alumni rell homophobia as a pervasive part of Prceton’s culture, though none spoke of vlence or threats. ‘Oh, you artists and artistic people mt be gay.