Contents:
- THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF AN AMERIN FRATERNY
- COLLEGE AT LAMBASTED FOR REJECTG OPENLY GAY PLEDGE
- TEACHER REMOVED US FLAG OM CLASS, ENURAGED STUNTS TO PLEDGE TO GAY PRI BANNER
- YOU’RE NOT BREAKG BARRIERS BY BEG GAY A ATERNY
THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF AN AMERIN FRATERNY
The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgenr Equy Center serv all LGBTQ+ stunts, faculty, and staff at the universy. The center also facilat participatn events such as the Pri Para, Black Gay Pri Week, Dragstavaganza, and Trans Day of Remembrance. The center was created 1992 after a remendatn om the Select Commtee for Lbian and Gay Concerns.
This is not a gay g of age story. No, this is a story about thgs I saw and heard and experienced, but don’t end wh me steppg bravely forward and proudly clarg my homosexualy to the world and fdg my place .
COLLEGE AT LAMBASTED FOR REJECTG OPENLY GAY PLEDGE
Some of the iends did turn out to be gay, though I had no ia at the time, as they, I thk, had srcely any ia about me. Afterward, my broad-shoulred stoner iend sually told Jason that “What we did was okay, bee I heard you have to do three tim wh a guy to make you gay. In the aterny which I belonged, a small subset of iends began referrg to the annual fall visatn of alumni as “Homog Weekend.
TEACHER REMOVED US FLAG OM CLASS, ENURAGED STUNTS TO PLEDGE TO GAY PRI BANNER
) he was homosexual.
By the time I graduated 1987, I had been through a few Homog Weekends and taken the long walk wh several of my olr aterny brothers, who would awkwardly nfs to beg gay. I was too uptight about my own sexualy and this sort of thg h entirely too close to home (homo?
But he left no doubt that he was totally gay, and ma me unfortable when he looked to my ey wh that perceptive visn of his. “But the guy’s a homosexual, and there are guys who say they’re gog blackball him to prevent him om gettg a bid, ” I was told.
YOU’RE NOT BREAKG BARRIERS BY BEG GAY A ATERNY
And after all, if I took a strong posn on the matter, someone might assume I was gay, and I was not gog to let that happen!
Marc was about as openly gay as one uld safely be Lock Haven, Pennsylvania the early 1980s. Much later Marc would fd out I was gay too, spe my self-protective measur, and he would be very supportive, god bls him. But 1984 I was not ready to be tthful about my sexualy wh anyone, even other gay people.