loading loading
Throwback Thursday: GALA's early days
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
|
3:26am June 26 2024
Happy Pride Month! In February 1984, the Yale Alumni Magazine published a simple half-page ad purchased by the relatively new group Yale Gay and Lesbian Alumni. It's hard to imagine this as a controversial act today, but we received some angry letters in response—and then some encouraging ones. (The final tally was 73 supportive, 28 hostile.) The ad and the sharp response drew national attention from newspapers, which proved a boon for Yale GALA. “The advertisement provoked more people to come out of the closet and realize there is no longer any reason to be ashamed,” said John Leo ’65 at a GALA conference later that year. 
The comment period has expired.
|
RECENT COMMENTS
RECENT POSTSARCHIVES
|
|||||||
Copyright 2015 Yale University. All rights reserved. As of July 1, 2015, the Yale Alumni Magazine operates as a department of Yale University. Earlier print and digital content of the Yale Alumni Magazine was published and copyrighted by Yale Alumni Publications, Inc., and is used under license.
Print
Email
