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Contents:
- WHY THEY LL YALE THE "GAY IVY"
- THE “GAY” IVY? : A QUEER REPUTATN
- WHAT REARS SAID ABOUT THE “GAY IVY”
- FEATURE: GOD AND THE GAY IVY
- IS YALE THE GAY IVY?
- GAY IVY
WHY THEY LL YALE THE "GAY IVY"
“Yale is the ‘gay ivy’ — but ’s not necsarily the ‘queer ivy.’” * gay ivy meaning *
Today, Yale's reputatn as the Gay Ivy is faiar to most stunts and younger alumni -- 's even clud Yale's entry on Wikipedia, that eful gui to the mon wisdom.
Yale probably do, however, have a higher proportn of gay stunts than other Ivi; there are no statistics, but many gay Yale stunts thk 's te.
THE “GAY” IVY? : A QUEER REPUTATN
Yale was one of the last Ivi to create an office of LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer) rourc.
WHAT REARS SAID ABOUT THE “GAY IVY”
The current admistratn is gay-iendly, but Yale admistrators historilly have not sought to ph the envelope on the issu. Yale GALA (Gay and Lbian Alumni) jt held s first rnn, and the proment gay alumni who spoke clud Bce Cohen ’83, producer of Milk, and Larry Kramer ’57, thor of The Normal Heart.
Margaret Marshall ’76JD, who wrote the Massachetts Supreme Court cisn legalizg gay marriage, is also an alum.
FEATURE: GOD AND THE GAY IVY
But Yale has many alumni who oppose pro-gay polici, such as Heather Mac Donald ’78, who cricized Yale the Weekly Standard for startg the LGBTQ rourc office; Maggie Gallagher ’82, print of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage; and the Right Reverend John Guernsey ’75, who joed his flock wh the Anglin Church of Uganda after the U.
In an say adapted om his keynote at the GALA rnn, Yale historian Gee Chncey ’77, ’89PhD, sketch that early history of alienatn and trac how s of effort by Yale's gay stunts drove a cultural shift. self-acceptg gay stunts and faculty at Yale, men who, as Fry wrote 1945, “work through quickly to an acceptance of their homosexualy and of sexual.
Graduat om earlier years—wh a few notable exceptns—fd the issue of gays at Yale to be anythg om distasteful to a gradatn of Yale’s reputatn. For some reason people seem to have more trouble intifyg unacceptable behavr when is sexist, homophobic, or heterosexist than when is racist. I found your ver story on gay stunts at Yale dly tertg, but I am astound at the letters you received om my fellow alumni about .
IS YALE THE GAY IVY?
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But so are Jews, and I doubt that any Yale print would sh to reassure alumni that Yale is not a “Jewish” universy, as Benno Schmidt did the face of entirely accurate publicy twenty years ago statg Yale is home to a large homosexual subculture. I ask that you thk more refully about the letters om alumni that you publish, and more refully about how your many gay and lbian rears may unrstandably react to them. ” Like most heterosexuals, I n unrstand his feelgs; ocsnally when I have thought about what homosexuals actually do sexually, which to be sure is not often, I have sometim felt distaste.