Morehouse And Its Cross-Dressing Men
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Morehouse College is among our most venerable HBCUs, alma mater to prominent African Americans such as Martin Luther King Jr., Spike Lee, Howard Thurman and Lerone Bennett Jr. The nation’s largest liberal arts college for men, “the House” has conferred bachelor’s degrees on more black men than any other college.
There are no statistics on the number of graduates inclined to wear makeup, dresses and high heels. And if the administration has its way, we’ll never know, because it instituted a dress code that prohibited those practices last year. Although feminine clothing wasn’t the focus of Morehouse’s “appropriate attire” policy, that aspect was the most sensationalized and publicized.
The school finds itself in the news again this month, with a lengthy article in Vibe called “The Mean Girls of Morehouse.” Reading the headline, I thought the story was about women from nearby Spelman College or perhaps the surrounding neighborhood. But no, in an article highlighting the difficulties faced by a small group of current and former cross-dressing gay students, Vibe took the conversation in a childish direction from the start by calling the men “girls.”
