Yesterday, Babe Useless wrote about our experiences with homophobia while we were in Atlanta for the Campus Progress Conference. Just the other day, a writer for The Maroon Tiger, the newspaper of Morehouse College where the conference took place, wrote an op-ed in the school’s paper asking the question, “Is Gay the Way?” and then again asking in The Daily Voice “When does gay tolerance go too far?” The writer, Gerren Gaynor, talks about the lengths of acceptance the college has gone through in order to make gay students feel safe, but Gaynor thinks the college has gone to far.

Over the years, despite social divergence on campus, the Morehouse community has done its share to both accept and adjust to the growing homosexual population. But don’t you think this has gone too far? A boy with a pocket book is far

Gaynor goes on to assume that every man who is gay wants to become a woman and fears the day when all gay men will undergo gender reassignment. Not only is this transphobic, but it’s also a misguided stereotype. I’m sure it never crossed his mind that big, manly guys can be just as gay as their flaming counterparts.

He then goes on to ask: “Is it fair for a straight male to come to an institution where he is forced to live in an environment that makes him feel uncomfortable?” PLEASE! What about all the queers who grow up in a society that makes them feel, not only uncomfortable, but scared for our lives?

My advice to Gaynor is for him to go make some gay friends. Maybe he can join up with fellow Maroon Tiger writer, Khadijah Robinson to talk to some of the gay men at Moorehouse that he so blindly stigmatizes. You will see that they are just like you… and that not all of them want to be women!