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Edmund, Thank you for sharing your experience. It took a lot of courage to do so.
I am sorry to hear about your experience with the UK Chapter. My hope is that perhaps it was an isolated incident. Isolated in that those individuals that shunned you etc. are not indicative of the chapter.
For what it is worth, I'd like to point out that the Delta Epsilon (UK) chapter *I* know, was (is) one of the finest chapters around. Of any fraternity. My freshman roommate at UK is a Delt and I was privileged to meet many of his brothers. Two of his pledge brothers came out while pledging and I'm happy to say they were accepted without any issues or incidents. Not only by their Delt brothers, but by the UK Greek community. Granted, this was back in the late 1970's when there wasn't such 'lifestyle issues' as there are now. Actually, as I recall, most every fraternity had open Gay members. Frankly, it just wasn't an issue.
In any case, my hope for you is that you come to understand (if you haven't already) that Delta Tau Delta is more than just those few members who were perhaps not as enlighten as they should/could have been. And that being a Delt is for life. It's a great brotherhood.
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