You’re not breakg barriers by beg gay a aterny

Contents:

• THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF AN AMERIN FRATERNY
• GAY AND GREEK: THE EXPERIENCE OF BEG GAY AND A ATERNY
• YOU’RE NOT BREAKG BARRIERS BY BEG GAY A ATERNY
• MY ATERNY YEARS AS AN OUT GAY MAN

THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF AN AMERIN FRATERNY

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 . 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. 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.

GAY AND GREEK: THE EXPERIENCE OF BEG GAY AND A ATERNY

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. 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!

Much later Marc would fd out I was gay too, spe my self-protective measur, and he would be very supportive, god bls him. If we we’re gog to blackball a gay guy jt bee he’s gay, then we’re not really about diversy at all, are we?

YOU’RE NOT BREAKG BARRIERS BY BEG GAY A ATERNY

Stori of the “gay murr” Lock Haven, Pennsylvania appeared everywhere, and were read by lns the big cy newspapers Philalphia and Ptsburgh. Well, I don’t want to overstate , but ’s clear that Mike – like most gay people – had been eply and adversely effected by the closet s and homophob that surround him. The same year I belatedly disvered that soon after Mike Hoeknecht was found ad on mp, a gay and lbian support group was formed at LHU.

MY ATERNY YEARS AS AN OUT GAY MAN

It stands to reason, however, that such a high-profile tragedy would galvanize the gay muny and lead to the formatn of such a group. In 1992, when I found out about LHU’s gay and lbian group, I told myself that if such a group were loted near my home New Jersey, I would jo right away. The guys that elected their first openly gay print would have had no ia about the experienc of Mike Hoeknecht four or five years before that.