A Gay Purge at Harvard, 1920 - The Gay & Lbian Review

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• A GAY PURGE AT HARVARD, 1920
• THE HARVARD GAY & LBIAN REVIEW
• THE BT OF THE HARVARD GAY & LBIAN REVIEW

A GAY PURGE AT HARVARD, 1920

The ia of gay and lbian people existg was no surprise to me, but the fact that I had iated a same-genr romance a vioMore.

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In the early 1960s, Hansen argued that magaz like ONE and Tangents should be aimed primarily at heterosexuals, not homosexuals. The same uld be said of his novels, which are wrten as much for straight rears as for gay on. Ramadan ftly ptur what means to be a homosexual a eply relig culture racked wh polil vlence, where nearly every aspect of life is dictated by tradn and the Koran, which turn is driven by the patriarchal and the mascule.

In Memoriam ptur the atmosphere of ele public schools at the time, pecially the rampant, barely ncealed homoeroticism, often mixed wh vlence.

HARDLY FIND a more diverse group of books than this: one by a pneerg Jewish lbian poet origally om Poland; one by a French surrealist; and a third by a gay man livg Dallas.

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He acknowledg that ntemporary rears might fd some of the book irrelevant, but his aim is “to show what the unfoldg of gayMore.

Greenough, skirtg the ual channels for vtigatg allegatns of stunt wrong-dog, nvened a secret five-member board—referred to the College’s own rerds as The Court—to gather evince ncerng homosexual activi at Harvard.

It turns out that shortly before he took his own life, Wilx had told his olr brother Gee that he was havg a homosexual affair wh an olr man who lived on Bean Hill.