The Rights of Gay Student Organizations at Public State-Supported Institutions

Mallory, Sherry L.

doi:10.2202/1949-6605.1017

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“…Using survey data from African American students attending predominantly White institutions (PWIs), Sutton and Kimbrough (2001) found that African American students marginally participated in traditional predominantly white student organizations because of an "unwelcoming" campus climate. This unwelcoming climate was also noted by Brown (1991), Mallory (1997), Person &Christensen (1996), andRooney (1985). In a similar vein, Sergent & Sedlacek (1990) found that African American students on predominantly white campuses were less likely to participate in student councils or student unions and homecoming committees.…”

Section: Social Integrationsupporting

confidence: 55%

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2020

JCAPS

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The Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship (JCAPS) is a social science peer-reviewed journal. It focuses on publishing rigorous, relevant, and respected scholarship related to postsecondary education cocurricular campus activities, and translating such scholarship to practice. It especially encourages submissions from practitioners throughout higher education.Typical submissions to the journal cover topics such as: Student and leadership development within campus activities Programming within a diverse and multicultural campus Advising students and their organizations Campus programming, governance, and/or funding boards Assessing the effects of student involvement in campus activities Navigating political and legal issues in working with students Professional development for staff and faculty who work with studentsAuthors can find more information about the submission process at naca.org/JCAPS.The Journal of Campus Activities Practice & Scholarship is published biannually by the National Association for Campus Activities. Statements of fact and opinion, or other claims made herein, are the responsibility of the authors and do not imply an opinion on the part of NACA® office employees, or officers, staff and other members of the Association. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce the contents of JCAPS either in whole or in part. Any reproduction includes, but is not limited to, computerized storage of information for later retrieval or audio, visual, print or internet purposes. All protections offered under federal copyright law will be strictly pursued, and no reproduction of any portion of this publication may occur without specific written permission from NACA. No material can be copied in any form if the purpose is to sell the material.NACA, National Association for Campus Activities, The Journal of Campus Activities Practice & Scholarship, JCAPS, and all other designated trademarks, service marks, and trade names (collectively the "Marks") are trademarks or registered trademarks of and are proprietry to NACA, or other respective owners that have granted NACA the right and license to use such Marks.

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Section: Social Integrationsupporting

confidence: 55%

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2020

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“…There are multiple case studies of LGBT student organizing in the 1960s and 1970s, but some do not focus on legal struggles (Reichard 2012; Reichard 2016) and others only address individual institutions (see below); this is the first study to provide a broad overview of all fourteen cases. Scholars in legal and educational studies have paid more attention to the litigation, but most have characterized it as centrally concerned with First Amendment rights of expression and assembly, not the criminalization of consensual sex and the sexual policing of LGBT people (Wilson and Shannon 1979;Rivera 1979;Rivera 1980-81;Solomon 1980;Stanley 1983-84;Rullman 1991;Mallory 1997;Ball 2017). More generally, campus struggles for gay student group recognition have rarely been identified as important episodes in LGBT history, the history of student activism, or the history of the 1970s.…”

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Students, Sodomy, and the State: LGBT Campus Struggles in the 1970s

Stein¹

2022

Law Soc. Inq.

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In the 1970s, LGBT students at fourteen US colleges and universities took their institutions to court after newly established gay student groups were denied official recognition. While the students suffered defeats along the way, by the end of the decade they had won the war for recognition. This article provides a broad overview of these cases, discusses their significance, and argues that we cannot understand the struggle for gay student group recognition without considering its relationship to the state regulation of sex. Advocates for gay student groups won most of their battles by responding to the claim that recognition would be tantamount to aiding and abetting criminal sexual activities. They did so by pursuing strategies of desexualization, which denied that gay student groups encouraged same-sex sex. The article explores these strategies by focusing on three 1976 Virginia cases, one about gay student group recognition, one about the criminalization of same-sex sex, and one about the application of the state’s sodomy law to an interracial threesome. The divergent outcomes help us understand the strategic effectiveness and political limitations of LGBT desexualization strategies.

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