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WLEYAN LBIAN/GAY SCENE
Comg to terms wh gay feelgs is difficult this society, but pecially at Wleyan. Communy who feels that s/he is predomantly or exclively gay are ved to the next meetg. The impet for the formatn of the Wleyan Gay Group advertised here me om an article published the Arg Febary of 1974.
THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS
The article was a reprt of an say wrten by Stuart Byron ’63, scribg what was like to be gay at Wleyan durg the pre-Stonewall era. This was the first signifint discsn of homosexualy to be published the Arg. Like on any llege mp, homosexualy was nsired a perversn, but a mon one.
In 1959 Daniel Webster Cory, a noted “expert on the homosexual, ” gave a talk as part of a seri of lectur about “Amerin Outsts. The John Wley Club, an anizatn for stunts who chose not to jo a aterny, was equently acced of harborg homosexualy; siar accatns were ma of the Alpha Delta Phi and Eclectic Fraterni. Amilly, the burgeong new field of Film Studi, was an attractn for many gay men.