“I must begin by saying that I feel as though the university created a moral windmill which it has been expensively tilting against for eight years. The whole idea that university ‘recognition’ implies moral acceptance of homosexuality, or anything else for that matter, has no basis in fact or precedent that I am aware of… […]
Continue ReadingGay Dance at GU, 1988
“Seven years into the presidency of Ronald Reagan, ‘most conservative president since Herbert Hoover,’ gay men and lesbian women enthusiastically and sensually danced and drank Coca-Cola products with one other in an undergraduate dormitory formal lounge on the campus of conservative Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. There was even some slow-dancing and kissing.”
Continue ReadingGay Groups Win Georgetown Case
“It is a very, very important victory for people interested in gay rights,” said lawyer Richard Gross, who argued the case before the three-judge panel, “because for the first time a court has said that the elimination of discrimination against gay people is as important as the elimination of discrimination on the basis of race […]
Continue ReadingGay Student Groups Sue Georgetown University
“Two Gay student groups, charging discrimination, are taking Georgetown University to court.”
Continue ReadingGeorgetown First to Recognize Gays
“No other major urban Jesuit college has approved a gay student charter, according to a survey taken by the Georgetown University Director of Student Activities, Debbie Gottfried.”
Continue ReadingOur Story (Publicly) Begins
In 1979, after a few years of unsuccessful attempts to form a student group on campus, LGBTQ students create the first recognized gay student group at a Jesuit University: GPGU (Gay People of GU). The group’s recognition is overturned by Georgetown President Timothy Healy, S.J., four days later.
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