ATLANTA, Georgia (Oct. 18) -- An all-male college in Atlanta, Georgia, has banned the wearing of women's clothes, makeup, high heels and purses as part of a new crackdown on what the institution calls inappropriate attire.
No dress-wearing is part of a larger dress code launched this week that Morehouse College is calling its "Appropriate Attire Policy."
The policy also bans wearing hats in buildings, pajamas in public, do-rags, sagging pants, sunglasses in class and walking barefoot on campus.
However, it is the ban on cross-dressing that has brought national attention to the small historically African-American college.
The dress-wearing ban is aimed at a small part of the private college's 2,700-member student body, said Dr. William Bynum, vice president for Student Services.
"We are talking about five students who are living a gay lifestyle that is leading them to dress a way we do not expect in Morehouse men," he said.
Before the school released the policy, Bynum said, he met with Morehouse Safe Space, the campus' gay organization.
"We talked about it and then they took a vote," he said. "Of the 27 people in the room, only three were against it."
I guess this decision really puts a stop to anyone who was going to go as Dennis Rodman to Halloween parties at Morehouse.
I really like the video tries to make it seem like the gay/crossdresser issue is just some tiny side issue in the grander scheme of a dress policy. I understand that Martin Luther King set a good standard for Morehouse and for African American men. Does that mean that male students there need to lie about their sexuality and gender identity?
What is the issue that mainstream Black America has with homosexuals? You would have thought they would have progressed on the issue at the same rate as other races, but not really. The "closet" has gotten easier to escape in America but it seems like being "on the downlow" is almost inescapable. That's why Obama is afraid to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Because he understands most of the bipartisan support he got in '08 was from conservatibe black churchgoers.
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