ment is updated continually, cites homophobic incidents and encourages affiliates to document and report incidents to its proprietary hotline. It collects copies of press accounts of such incidents, as well as individual accounts, and includes them in information it distributes to college students and personnel. That appears to be the most comprehensive formal reportage done in the country. This is slated to change in January of 1991, when the Federal Hate Crimes Statistics Act will require the federal government to assemble data on crimes stemming from race, religion, and sexual orientation (Mannery 1990). Typical of the more informal reportage are the college related citations contained in a workshop manual created by Obear (1989), as follows:
Once again, a Michigan State University fraternity (Lansing)
has decided to exclude gay couples from a dance marathon to
benefit multiple sclerosis. Said Steve Rennie, chair of the
marathon and former president of fraternity Delta Tau Delta,
"I think if someone is sincere enough about raising money,
they will sacrifice their sexual preference." Advocate
In May 1976, eight lesbians leaving a Syracuse, New York bar
at closing time were severely beaten up by a group of
fraternity men from the nearby university. Some of the women
suffered broken limbs and concussions. N[ational] G[ay and
Reports of homophobic incidents on campuses can be found in a great (one might almost say too great) variety of sources. In September of 1984, a student election at the University of Kansas was the setting for a campaign slogan created by a political party known as Young Americans For Freedom and taken up by a local disco: "Fagbusters." The slogan supported the party's efforts to have KU decertify an on campus service group, Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas (GLSOK), which had only recently received certification and fundi...