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Article: Show opening in New Haven. (homosexuality at Yale University)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 20, 1987
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SHOW OPENING IN NEW HAVEN
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 ...