Some of the men, as enrolled UW students, faced expulsion for their “misconduct,” and others faced prison sentences or fines of $100 - the equivalent of about $1,200 today.ĭr. In 1948, she wrote a report encouraging the Committee of Student Conduct and Appeals (CSCA) to find and expel homosexual students so they could not “contribute to the delinquency of others.” TUMBLR LIVE GAY SEX CLUB FULLĪnnette Washburne, the first woman to be made a full professor at UW-Madison, began her efforts to remove gay students from the university throughout the 1940s. The CSCA deemed this an “excellent report” and adopted it as their official guide to addressing homosexuality.
Washburne would later be instrumental in spearheading the 1962-63 Gay Purge.Īlbertario explained that anti-gay attitudes reached a fever pitch partially due to a concerted effort to root out anyone suspected of being a homosexual in government, dubbed the Lavender Scare of the 1950s.
