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CAN A MOREHOE COLLEGE MAN BE OPENLY GAY?
“I knew I was part of the queer muny, I knew I was gay, but I got here to Morehoe and this was different for me, ” Mx. However— s velopment of a strong, black, ele brotherhood—nowhere s history were gay, and bisexual men clud.
And now, more than a century later, gay and bisexual Morehoe men are still stgglg to be accepted. LGBTQ activists are listeng and so too is the Los Angel Tim wh s recent article Morehoe College fac s own bias —agast gays. Wh more and more stunts of Brewer’s generatn arrivg on mp openly gay or bisexual, Morehoe’s admistratn ntu to lack the cultural petence and sensivy to addrs the issue, leavg stunts wh only one optn for how to be a Morehoe man.
But is Morehoe’s highly publicized 2002 gay-bashg cint that has damaged s image, and has, sadly, tght the admistratn very ltle. On November 4, 2002, a Morehoe College stunt staed a actured skull om his classmate, sophomore Aaron Price; not surprisgly the son of an ultra-nservative mister. Stunts are very wary of any actn that uld be misnsted as a gay overture, ” sophomore Mubarak Guy, who is a iend of Price’s, told the AJC 2002.
MOREHOE STUNT REVERG AFTER ANTIGAY ATTACK
Durg the arguments for and agast nvictg Price of the state’s first hate crime, Assistant Fulton County District Attorney Holly Hugh asked the jury to remember the words Price allegedly uttered “when he beat his victim wh a baseball bat: ‘Faggot, you’re gay, gay … I hate the Morehoe faggots. But Kg had his own problems wh gay men. Sadly, Bayard Rt, the gay man who was chief anizer and strategist for the 1963 March on Washgton that further tapulted Kg onto the world stage, was not the beneficiary of Kg’s dream.