[wardaddy]

Actually Ole Miss has had a gay students alliance/association since I was there in the late 70s.

I would think Wyoming might be more a choice for hostility to gays on campus.

It's a known fact that the faded gentility of the Old South always had a seamy gay side. I've witnessed it from scandal to scandal my whole life. Just peruse a list of native son writers and playwrights.

And the gay congressman from Missisippi in the early 80s busted with the page in the Capital bathroom...Hinson I think(?).

Nah...Queer Nation is alive and well in the cotton states...just a bit more discreet....like all Southerners.

[bourbon]

It's a known fact that the faded gentility of the Old South always had a seamy gay side.

True. The only difference between now and then is that Southerners no longer shun the word "gay" in their gentility. In simpler and more elegant(??) times, I believe we used to call them "fussy old bachelors."