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In soc.motss (Mara Chibnik) writes:
>daviss@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Davis) writes:
> >Here at Columbia U. we've had a student gay organization for almost 20  
> >years.  (It actually claims to be the first such campus organization, but  
> >who knows or cares...)
>
>I'm surprised to hear that it's that _short_ a time.  

I graduated in 1968, so it was sometime in 1967 (possibly '66 but I don't
think so) that the College grudgingly recognized the "Student Homophile
Association"--two years before Stonewall and, as far as I know, the first
such student organization in the US.

It caused an uproar, of course, with the Chair of the Classics Dept., no
less, calling it the end of the University (which by Columbia standards
was far more extreme than "the end of the Western World.")  I wonder what
he thought all those Greeks has been up to.

I, unfortunately, was too closeted/unaware to do more than dream about
going to a meeting (sigh).

At our 20th reunion in '88, it was interesting to see who else from our
class was gay--sort of a reunion within a reunion.  So any Columbia
College Class of '68 motssers who were thinking of going to our 25th
reunion next June, let me know and we can plan something special.

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