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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 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 BT GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS
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. Robert Mart ’63 wrote, a Herm article thirty years later, that “film studi provid a space for gay culture. ” Stuart Byron himself would later bee a screenwrer and film cric for the Village Voice, as well as an early member of the Gay Liberatn movement New York.
By the time of Byron’s Arg article, the Stonewall Rebelln had e and gone, and morn-day gay activism was well on s way. “…we ought to be able to affirm that homosexuals face enormo and human prsur which are stctive to the human spir…Those who wish to change their sexual orientatn should be helped to do so.