Harvard asked to overturn gay expulsions of 1920

[Fearless]

In 1920, following the suicide of undergraduate Cyril Wilcox, Harvard’s Acting Dean Chester Greenough was alerted to a number of students holding gay parties that an anonymous tip-off said “beggared description”.

The letter received by the dean named some gay students and asked: “Isn’t it about time an end was put to this sort of thing in college?”

In the early summer of that year, Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell formed what he called a Secret Court to identify the university’s actively gay students at the university and expel them and others deemed to be too close them.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/02/28/harvard-asked-to-overturn-gay-expulsions-of-1920/