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...groped a lot,” says Casey Giovinco, DLP’s president, a junior at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. “While you’re just standing there or dancing, someone will come up out of nowhere.” But Giovinco is quick to point out that the carnal agendas of most clubgoers don’t diminish his love for the nightlife. In fact, he tries hurriedly to shush DLP pledgemaster Doug DiPietro, a recent Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate, in mid-sentence when DiPietro describes the clubs as “somewhat sleazy?...
...trying to get funding from these clubs,” Giovinco explains...
...fraternity brothers actually go out often, they say, but they supplement club life by organizing a wide variety of informal events that focus mainly on building long-term friendships. Every Wednesday night, the brothers hang out at Fritz’s, a bar in the South End that Giovinco lauds as “an extremely sympathetic establishment.” The brothers also meet for lunch and dinner a few times a month...
...Giovinco insists he wants the fraternity to be a place where men can feel at ease to reveal their true identities. “One thing that is hard for gay men is that you’ve been put into the closet until you’ve come out,” he says. “It’s hard to be real with people because you’ve been taught not to for so long...
...organization for opening them up to friendships that they would probably have not considered in their pre-fraternity days. “I was well-established with the gay community, but I wanted a deeper sense of community that didn’t revolve around clubbing,” Giovinco says. DiPietro agrees. “If I had met these people in a club or on the Internet, I don’t think we would be as close. This is a group of guys I can meet without expectations,” he says...