He was expelled by his parents for being gay
Gay Purge of 1962 | Wisconsin Historical Society
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Gay Purge of 1962 | Wisconsin Historical Society
In 1962 the University of Wisconsin-Madison actively purged students identified as homosexuals in what came to be acknowledged as the Great Purge of 1962. During that year, the campus Department of Protection and Security and the Office of the Dean of Men conducted a detailed study of gay men on campus. By coercing queer male students to provide names of other same-sex attracted men, officials compiled a list of over 200 men and called them in for questioning. If a man admitted that he was gay, the university called his parents, revoked his scholarships, and expelled him. The purge also led to the investigation of certain faculty, staff, and deans. The purge subsided after faculty and counseling center staff argued that the widespread anguish the purge brought to the university society caused more harm than good.
McCrea, Ron. "Madison Queer Purge." Midwest Gay Academic Journal 1(3): 25-30; UW-Madison historian Scott Seyforth, personal communication based on interviews with eyewitnesses.
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The research in this blog post was completed as a part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Public History Venture. The three-year project aims to reckon with the university’s history of racism, exclusion, and discrimination. The project will culminate in an exhibit in the fall of 2022, an interactive online website, and curricular tools. By sharing research before the opening of the exhibit, we hope to begin conversations about the history of UW–Madison and discuss how we can all function toward building a more equitable campus community. The nature of historical study is that it will always be incomplete. It is impossible for us to know everything that happened in the past. Therefore, the research in this post is imperfect, as all history is. Our student researchers include completed the research below with all of the historical documents available to them at the moment of publication. There will be alternative perspectives to those detailed below. We believe that the discussions that arise out of these differing perspectives are an integral part of the process of reckoning with our history. We welcome responses and discussion. Responses submitted by email will B O S T O N, Jan. 8 -- The roaring '20s was a period of experimentation and change, yet homophobia was strong in society and its institutions, even at Harvard. Today, Harvard University is commended as one of the more liberal institutions in the country, but advocate in 1920, things were very different. While doing research on a another story last summer, Amit Paley, a whistleblower for Harvard University's Crimson newspaper, stumbled upon a file marked "Secret Court Files, 1920," in the university's archives. The discovery led Paley to 500 pages of documents that described an underground court that convened to investigate and expel gay students. ‘Taint Other Students’ "Members of the secret court considered themselves to be defenders of morality at the university, and they felt the very existence of people who were homosexual and even those who knew of homosexuality at the university, were some sort of pressure that would taint other students," Paley said. "I consider they considered it some sort of contagious disease," he said. The witch search began when Harvard sophomore Cyril Wilcox committed suicid Photo: projectio/fotolia A student expelled from his social operate course after he expressed anti-gay marriage views on social media has launched a legal oppose against the decision. At a hearing today, Felix Ngole will ask the Elevated Court to authorize a judicial review of Sheffield University’s decision to extract him from his social work masters course in February 2016. The university excluded Ngole after he made Facebook posts supporting Kim Davis, a US county clerk who was jailed after refusing to give marriage licenses to similar sex-couples. He also published quotes from Leviticus on his private Facebook account, which described homosexuality as an “abomination”. Ngole argued the views were part of his Christian faith and his comments were made in a personal capacity. But a university behavior committee found his actions would drop short of the professional standards for social workers put by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and he was expelled from his course. He later clueless an internal appeal against the decision. The Steep Court refused Ngole’ Brazilian photographer Nayara Leite has been exploring the lives of six Brazilian homosexuals who were expelled from their homes when they told their families they were gay. Leite asked them to send her a happy photograph of them as a toddler, which she then burnt - an act she feels reflects the rejection they had experienced. One of them was unable to provide a picture, as everything was destroyed by her family. "My mother judged me a lot. It was a tremendous emotional exploitation. She said I could never have a family. "My father asked me if I knew I was going to suffer from prejudice within society. "I said that I knew I would, and that I was already suffering inside my own house - with the people I loved the most. "It's as if you die, and that all the dreams that the parents venture onto their kids are over." "If it was a choice, I wouldn't choose to go through all of that. "The first time that my grandfather expelled me from residence, he treated me appreciate a prostitute. "He shouted at me for bringing my girl
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