"During the 1940s, at least three public universities expelled students and fired faculty who were presumed to be homosexual. The cases at Texas, Wisconsin, and Missouri open a window onto a little known aspect of the history of higher education in the United States. Although we know in a general way that homosexuals were discriminated against during the 1940s, there is scant documentation about the treatment of homosexuality on college campuses. A paper on this topic that I co-authored with one of my former graduate students, Jennifer Silverman, was just published in the journal History of Education Quarterly. The paper, "'An Indelible Mark': Gay Purges in Higher Education in the 1940s," builds on a small amount of existing literature on the history of homosexuality and campus life... The history of gays and lesbians on campuses, as either faculty or students, in the pre-McCarthy years has yet to be written. Our research is beginning to change that."
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Showing posts with label scarcity of research on history of gays and lesbians on campuses as either faculty or students. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
The Hidden History of Gay Purges in Colleges; Huffington Post, 12/11/15
Margaret A. Nash, Huffington Post; The Hidden History of Gay Purges in Colleges:
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