Queer Man on Campus: A History of Non-Heterosexual College Men, 1945-2000
by Patrick Dilley
Excerpts from Chapter 1, page 1
When I was in the fourth grade, sitting alone at home one afternoon, I was perusing the World Book Encylopedia set we kept in the den. I looked up sex and read about the physiological facts and functions. I dutifully studied -- a prospective researcher even then -- each cross-reference. I came across an entry in the H volume. As I read it, I thought, "that is talking about me and why I like boys." That moment, for me and for others first naming of a part of themselves that they could not convey before learning new names, was a powerful experience.
Three years later, the winter of my thirteenth birthday, my family vacationed in the Florida Keys. A grandson of one of my mother's friends arrived a few days later. karl was dramatic in a 1940s Joan Crawford way, dressed a la Truman Capote (long knitted scarf and gloves, even in Florida), and a yeaqr older than I. I knew, immediately, he was like me, "not like the other kids," but I did not understand how or why I knew that. We found a fast rapport. Although the detalis of our lives were dissimilar, we shared a particular meeaning of the world in which we felt trapped: snared by high school bullies, bny small tous na dminds, by our inability to replace those bourgeois tragedies with the dramas adn comedies we wanted. that night was the first time I ever stayed wawake the entire neight, as we lay on the floor, watching and listening to the waves of the ocean, telling our stories about our Midwestern adolescennce in the dark.
The researcher I have become recognizes the patterns that form my life evidence in those moments. I continue to study identity, particularly of people "not like the others," who are sexually and emotinoally drawn to members of the same gender. I still listen to their stories, asking questions, comparing adn contrasting the tales I gather. College life== the extracurricular activities in which I participated, the topics I chose to study, the professional focus I devloped -- huilt upon both aspects of my idetnity -- as a non-heterosexual male and as a scholar of identity and higher education. The two aspects are inter-twined: without one, the other makes little sense on hits own.
(Source: http://www.amazon.com/Queer-Man-Campus-Non-Heterosexual-1945-2000/dp/0415933366#reader_0415933366)
Jun 4, 2010
Evidence that honour was a matter of life and death for men, since history
Excerpts from the article:
Sparta History
Source: Laconian professionals
(originally from: These were the Greeks" by H.D.Amos and A.G.P. Lang)
There is a story about a Spartan boy who, in order to conceal a fox which he had stolen, hid it beneath his cloak and allowed the fox to gnaw him rather than let the theft be revealed. He died of the wounds. If he had been discovered, the disgrace would not have been in the stealing, but in allowing it to be detected. The boy's actin illustrates the main purpose of the Spartan educational system, which was to produce men capable of showing such bravery as soldiers.
Sparta History
Source: Laconian professionals
(originally from: These were the Greeks" by H.D.Amos and A.G.P. Lang)
There is a story about a Spartan boy who, in order to conceal a fox which he had stolen, hid it beneath his cloak and allowed the fox to gnaw him rather than let the theft be revealed. He died of the wounds. If he had been discovered, the disgrace would not have been in the stealing, but in allowing it to be detected. The boy's actin illustrates the main purpose of the Spartan educational system, which was to produce men capable of showing such bravery as soldiers.
Evidence that boys who faild manhood were thrown into the third gender category and stigmatized
Women's Roots: The History of Women in Western Civilization
by June Stephenson, Ph.D.
Diemer Smith Publishing Co., 5th Edition, March 2000
Book review by William A. Spriggs, October 6, 2003
...I argue that males, who could not pass the test perhaps, would be killed, exiled, or shunned; it is known for a fact that in some Native American tribes, males who failed the "test of manhood" were given "women's work" to do. There were no "gay communities" in large cities to which the "inferior" males could escape.
...As mentioned above by Dr. Stephenson, the cultural initiation test into manhood is mostly universal for males...
Evidence that western scholars, when they talk about 'homosexuals' and 'homosexuality' are often only referring to the effeminate, third genders who had receptive or otherwise, sex with males.They conveniently ignore the sex between 'masculine' or 'straight' males that was not stigmatized or considered part of the third genders or a separate category:
...I argue that the initial tests of manhood also give evolutionary psychologists a glimpse into the beginings of homophobia and misogyny; both based on exclusionary mechanisms of domination and control. The "strong, bonded" males, because of their ability to dominate through violence, most likely passed negative social attachmets to all in the tribe who could not contribute to the the public good of its defense -- both male and female.
by June Stephenson, Ph.D.
Diemer Smith Publishing Co., 5th Edition, March 2000
Book review by William A. Spriggs, October 6, 2003
...I argue that males, who could not pass the test perhaps, would be killed, exiled, or shunned; it is known for a fact that in some Native American tribes, males who failed the "test of manhood" were given "women's work" to do. There were no "gay communities" in large cities to which the "inferior" males could escape.
...As mentioned above by Dr. Stephenson, the cultural initiation test into manhood is mostly universal for males...
Evidence that western scholars, when they talk about 'homosexuals' and 'homosexuality' are often only referring to the effeminate, third genders who had receptive or otherwise, sex with males.They conveniently ignore the sex between 'masculine' or 'straight' males that was not stigmatized or considered part of the third genders or a separate category:
...I argue that the initial tests of manhood also give evolutionary psychologists a glimpse into the beginings of homophobia and misogyny; both based on exclusionary mechanisms of domination and control. The "strong, bonded" males, because of their ability to dominate through violence, most likely passed negative social attachmets to all in the tribe who could not contribute to the the public good of its defense -- both male and female.
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