"For the most of U.S. history, to be gay was to be secretive." When I was a student at Ithaca "gay" meant that a person was lighthearted and carefree. I'm sure we had homosexuals, as all societies have, but they weren't recruiting new members.

It hurts me to see Ithaca leading this movement. A few years ago I read in a student newspaper, here in Tennessee, where...