Friday, March 24, 2017

Blog Post #3

Out on fraternity row, Shane L Windmeyer, Pamela W. freeman

Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College Sorority, Shane L. Windmeyer, Pamela W. freeman

- These two sources are about non-heterosexual Greek life members who share their personal experiences with fraternities and sororities. A pattern can be found in these stories: the person is finding a place that they feel can belong, and ironically feel they cannot fully trust their own brothers or sisters with their secret of being gay or bisexual. However there is always at least 1 person they come fully trust to come out to, which indicates the importance of being socially affluent as a homosexual/bisexual to survive in a university environment.

Making Men in Gay fraternities: Resisting and Reproducing Multiple Dimensions of Hegemonic Masculinity, King-To Yeung, Mindy Stombler, Renee Wharton

- Looks into Delta Lambda Phi, a gay fraternity and how gay men face the meanings of masculinity and whether they should approach "normal heterosexual masculinity" throug radical cultural change or assimilate slowly