Fd the obuary of Wanda Gay Reece (1949 - 2023) om Prceton, WV. Leave your ndolenc to the fay on this memorial page or send flowers to show you re.
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GAY LIFE AT PRCETON?
<p>hello. i jt found out that i was accepted at prceton. i was wonrg--how is gay life at prceton? my imprsns now are that prceton is small and nservative, which do not seem to great for the "acceptance rate" (!), if you will, of gays</p> <p>i have heard that at other schools i am now nsirg (most pecially yale), 's more acceptg...</p> <p>what do you thk?</p> * gay princeton *
Gay life at prceton? 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.
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. 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.
The Queer Graduate Cc is the stunt anizatn at Prceton Universy reprentg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng graduate stunts and their alli. My only ntact wh the qutn of homosexualy while at Prceton took place at what were then known as “bull ssns. Homosexualy did not e up very often, but when did, many of the right qutns were asked: Should be agast the law?
WANDA GAY REECE OBUARY
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. Its missn is helpg dividuals explore their many inti, cludg a/sex... * gay princeton *
Do people choose to be homosexual, or was a ndn some are born wh? I have no ia what topics were discsed other dorms durg the wee hours, but homosexualy was not taboo the third entry of Wherspoon Hall. And, of urse, there was speculatn about the extent of homosexualy on mp.
Prceton Universy | Prceton Bisexual Transgenr Gay and Lbian Alumni (Prceton BTGALA). Wh heavy hearts, we announce the ath of Wanda Gay Reece of Prceton, Wt Virgia, born Welch, Wt Virgia, who passed away on July 21, 2023 at the age of 74. The events of October 11, 1989, Prceton’s first “Gay Jeans Day, ” reverberated far beyond the nf of a 24-hour perd.
Wh pk flyers stenciled black letters, anizers of Prceton’s first Gay Jeans Day urged the mp to “wear ’em” whout further tails. Many took to mean that wearg jeans would be a claratn of their own homosexualy.
“WEAR ’EM”: PRCETON UNIVERSY’S FIRST GAY JEANS DAY
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Gay Jeans Day flyer, 1989.
Lbian Gay Bisexual Alliance Rerds (AC037), Box 1, Folr 5. Gay Jeans Day, which by 1989 was beg observed on mp across Ameri, had begun as Blue Jeans Day and appears to have origated njunctn wh the “Symposium on Gay Liberatn and Edutn” -sponsored by the Rutgers Stunt Homophile League 1974. The League had advertised this and subsequent Blue Jeans Days as an opportuny to clare one’s homosexualy through a clothg choice and statned strategilly-placed “unters” to pretend to be notg who wore jeans and who did not.
Wearg jeans on Gay Jeans Day was meant to show one’s support for gay, lbian, and bisexual stunts, and was therefore tend to be clive of straight stunts as well. In the late 1980s, at the height of the AIDS epimic, gay Amerins were particularly proment subjects of social disurse, often a negative way.
I want to ngratulate PAW on the “Gay at Prceton” ver story. * gay princeton *
The first Gay Jeans Day happened to ci wh AIDS Awarens Day. Though this appears to have been untentnal, anizers of Gay Jeans Day did acknowledge that the epimic had been on their mds as they ma their plans.
In the mid ‘70s, an Amerin homosexual lived a ‘liberated’ natn whout the prence of the current ‘New Right’ and the fear of AIDS. Today, homosexuals feel threatened by a general cultural disda flicted by polil and relig movements and a vastatg epimic.