The night June 1969 that gay men fought police raidg the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village marked the begng of wir acceptance of male homosexuals.
Contents:
- WHY THEY LL YALE THE "GAY IVY"
- YALE, GAY IENDLY? 2ND LOOK WEEKEND
- GAY MEN’S FEARS OF LONG-TERM ROMANCE
WHY THEY LL YALE THE "GAY IVY"
A Geetown/Yale Gay Fanfic. Yale has been wily known as the Gay Ivy sce at least 1987, when Julie V. Iove ’77 clared the Wall Street Journal, "Sudnly Yale is a gay school.
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. What do "the Gay Ivy" mean?
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. And if you walk around mp for a while on your vis, you may see a gay uple holdg hands. For the central pot of the Gay Ivy tag is that Yale is a gay-iendly school.
YALE, GAY IENDLY? 2ND LOOK WEEKEND
The mp is unually welg to gay and lbian stunts and has an active, multifaceted gay social scene.
Yale was one of the last Ivi to create an office of LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer) rourc. The current admistratn is gay-iendly, but Yale admistrators historilly have not sought to ph the envelope on the issu.
GAY MEN’S FEARS OF LONG-TERM ROMANCE
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. 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.