ng after five years of petitioning. The danger level escalated for a gay student who lost a wheel while driving his car; the lug bolts had been deliberately loosened. The student, who also reported receiving life threatening telephone calls, eventually withdrew from school (Bendet 1986; Howard 1987). At the University of Illinois in 1985, two gay males (one a professor) received telepone threats after one "came out" in the campus newspaper. At New York University in 1984, the Gay and Lesbian Union was the target of threatening phone calls, graffiti, and handbills (National Gay & Lesbian Task Force n.d.). The Advocate (n.d.) cites the appearance of antigay graffiti ["Stay in the closet, fag"] at the University of Delaware (Newark) on a cite where pro gay literature had been left earlier. At Ohio State University in Columbus, a written death threat was taped to the door of a men's dormitory housing two gay students who had "come out" by virtue of an article in a campus newspaper; OSU officials launched a criminal investigation (Associated
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