Gay Morehouse Students React to VIBE Article

When VIBE magazine published an article called "Mean Girls of Morehouse" this month, it was undoubtably instigating debate and conversation regarding the gay community at the all male school in Atlanta, GA. The article profiles a 20-year-old former Morehouse student named Diamond, who left the school because he felt it did not support his openly gay lifestyle and overtly female wardrobe, especially after Morehouse passed a dress code last fall, banning students from cross dressing on campus grounds. But did VIBE take into consideration how the men at Morehouse would respond to the article? Did VIBE care? Students at Morehouse got together and had a heated debate on campus grounds and someone recorded and posted bits to youtube. Check out the video here. What do you think of the article and video response?

-WSB

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Comment by M--life on February 7, 2011 at 8:34pm: my man in the backpack...MAD LOVE!

Comment by blaqvenus on October 22, 2010 at 2:20pm: I am shocked they even took the time to have this discussion. Their awareness brings hope.

Comment by M. Francis on October 19, 2010 at 1:25am: Double ditto LIZAF !!

Comment by California King on October 18, 2010 at 8:08pm: lizaf... ditto

Comment by Li ZaF on October 18, 2010 at 7:30pm: THIS IS AMAZING. Seriously. No matter what people feel about the article (and clearly a lot of Morehouse men were irritated by it), the fact that it initiated this kind of discourse makes me unbelievably proud and hopeful. Intelligent black men talking honestly and thoughtfully about the environment they live, expectations in the black community and society as a whole. That article exposed and publicized something that a lot of people straight up DIDN'T want to talk about, and by bringing it to light- FORCED this conversation, and I'm sure many like it, across the nation. I really think that, however minor it may be in retrospect, it's the first step towards more tolerance and understanding of the illusion that is gender roles.

I'm about to explode with how happy this makes me. :)

Comment by Alex Lee on October 18, 2010 at 7:24pm: I attend an HBCU in a similar situation so I feel the opinions posed by a lot of the students. When it comes down to it HBCU's aren't like PWI's in many ways. There's a certain aura of history and tradition on campus at all times. I am Gay/Les friendly but in the end it is a private institution, they have the right to enforce whatever they want to on camp and no one forces you to be there. There's some tradition related issues at my own school that I don't like but I deal with them because it was my choice to attend and I knew this was the deal before I came.