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Originally posted by queequek
For some "liberal" states, like New York or California, being gay and greek is acceptable. It will be different for some Greek houses in more "traditional" states to pledge gay.
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Now see, that is a generalization that is not necessarily true. I live in California, and I attend a University that is very conservative, upper-middle class Anglo-Saxon, Republican types. Basically, it's very white and rich. And I'm neither! But we have gay brothers in my fraternity and in others as well. They are not all out, but apparantly those who know, know. But it depends on the TYPES of students that attend that particular school. For instance, Duke and Vanderbilt and the University of North Carolina are in the South, and they may be as "liberal" as most California schools, because of the types of students that attend (primarily a large national base). And a school like the University of California at Berkeley, which has a large Greek community, and is known as a "Very Liberal" school-there is NO way a out homosexual could join one of the more popular fraternities-probably not at USC or UCLA either. So I really feel that the type of school (public versus private, small liberal arts college versus a school with a larger population) makes a difference. And believe me, I don't think a time will EVER come when it's looked upon as "acceptable" to pledge gay. Brothers will tolerate it, but that it the LAST bastion of acceptability in fraternity life. We can have a brother of another race, religion, ethnicity, anything else and accept that, but not homosexuality. We'll put up with it if we have to, to be politically correct, but privately, almost all brothers would probably say NO WAY if asked to answer truthfully about having an openly gay member.