The gay situation at Yale has been getting a good deal of national publicity, and in response to an earlier “Ivory Foxhole” I now receive a letter from a recent Yale graduate, John W. Brewer. It raises a number of questions that may usefully be addressed, and I excerpt its most pertinent passages.
That earlier “Ivory Foxhole,” in Brewer’s view, “says much less about homosexuality as a problem for the morals of the nation or for Yale in particular than as a problem for the conservative movement. . . . Also, . . . [homosexuality,] so widely thought of as unnatural and revolting, . . . has been a remarkably recurrent form of human behavior, and does not seem more common now than forty years ago (if Kinsey can be believed) . . . Pretty much the only thing that I, jaded though I may be with youth, found disturbing about the organized activist gay movement at Yale in my four years there was its politicization toward not only coalition liberal politics but coalition liberal ideology. What I mean by this is the tendency of ‘leaders’ or ‘spokespersons’ to announce the official gay position on faculty hiring policies, university investments in companies involved with South Africa,” etc.
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