Sorors' Have you seen this???

[Citrine1]

Apparently this has been all over the internet, but I just now got the memo. Check out this tomfoolery!!!

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dccxhjbc_0jg35cp

[Senusret I]

I saw this on facebook just today. It's really sad.

I try to educate gay men on this as best I can....there are ways to have a support system and embrace your softer side (for lack of a better phrase) without disrespecting existing institutions.

[prettynatural]

They can wear the colors and even imitate some styles but they will not ever be a member of my organization. I can't believe they would go out in public like that. That is such a disgrace

[ladygreek]

They have been around for awhile--the same as Delta Beaux/Gents. I've read that on some campuses they are "pledged" by members of the respective sorority. *shrugs*

[Senusret I]

I posted this response on facebook:

Let me start by saying that this, indeed, is a mess.

Men claiming to be members of sororities is not a new phenomenon, however, at least not new in 2007. It has been around since at least the 1980s.

Why do gay men do this? I don't know. I am a gay man - openly gay for many years - and I have never had the desire to pledge anything but a fraternity. I always knew that fraternities were for men and sororities were for women. (Later I came to learn about coed fraternities, but that's beside the point.)

I do not know what it is about sororities, sisterhoods, and all things feminine that some gay men find affinity with. But I do acknowledge that some gay men find mutual support and friendship in those entities that I personally do not find comforting: drag shows, vogue balls, and yes, "sororities."

What is most dangerous about these organizations is not the trademark infringement, but the sense of entitlement they feel because they pledged long and hard. Yes, to most of us....

..pledging long and hard for THIS is worse than being a renegade, but at the same time, who do we have to blame for the division in the first place? We indoctrinate in our membership that they are worthless if they didn't sweat, bleed, and cry for our orgs.

To the little credit I intend to give these men, they are emulating what they see us doing.

Now what can you all do about it? Not much. If you are already a homophobe, I strongly suggest that you leave them be and allow more tolerant people to talk sense into them -- better yet, let an actual gay man, a gay greek man (doesn't have to be me) talk to them about finding a better way to express their identity, independent of Alpha Kappa Alpha, DST, and the other orgs they emulate.

Believe that your national offices are handling the trademark aspects....let insiders to the culture handle the other traditions. If you confront them, you will make it worse.

Believe a man in drag is still a man and will fight you as such, lol

[pinkies up]

I am speechless. Mercy.

[DSTCHAOS]

Senruset rocks.

I blame the AKA and Delta chapters that allow such tomfoolery to begin in the first place for the existence of these auxilliaries. These men know they are MiAKA and aren't really AKAs. They aren't the same as men who have fake AKA or DST membership certificates and cards. Or, are they?

Weren't MiAKA and Delta Beaux/Gent ( ) started as men who had a love for AKA and DST and wanted to help out just like sweethearts help the frats? Weren't many of them men who dated AKAs and Deltas? That's what I was told.

[starang21]

dang, lol

i knew those pics would be getting out hella fast.