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Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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SCENE COVER | Beyond one in four

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, April 10, 2009

In the 1972 edition of Yale's yearbook, articles were divided into categories beginning with letters.

The first topic for letter G: Gay Lib.

In a wry piece spanning four pages, an anonymous Yalie recounted his discovery of his homosexuality, describing his childhood disinterest in the female members of the Mickey Mouse Club and his anxiety about swimming camp.

"I knew that I had become everything that our Sex Education teacher had warned us about: A homosexual," the angsty author writes. "No less, a homosexual with an enormous penchant for sexual gratification, a...

#1 By Dara L. 8:18p.m. on April 14, 2009

Fantastic article.

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