Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspect there is a larger community [of gay students], but I don't really see it that much," says Douglas G. Chang, a senior from Palo Alto, Ca. He says one of his freshman roommates came out in the spring of their first year...
Many of the other students also say they have friends who are gay. The vast majority of Yale students, they say, are tolerant of the vocal homosexual community. Yet in the next breath one of the students at the party says it's easy to recognize a gay student: He or she probably majors in comparative literature and wears black...
...women, now juniors, have been together since their freshman year, when Chinn says she came to terms with her sexuality. The two met during Gay and Lesbian Awareness Days (GLAD) week in the spring of their freshman year and started going out immediately afterwards. Now Chinn is co-coordinator of the Gay and Lesbian Co-op, and Franklin is co-coordinator of Yalesbians...
Chinn and Franklin, who live off-campus with two other women, one of whom is straight, say that gay jokes are not common in public at Yale, but within students' own groups of friends degrading homosexuals is more acceptable...
...Maybe if I'd gone somewhere else, I wouldn't have come out until I was 45," she says. The strong support groups for homosexuals and the relatively open atmosphere make being gay easier, she adds...