Fraternity for gays, bisexuals launched at ISU [View All]

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Eleven students at Iowa State University have formed Iowa's first fraternity for gay and bisexual men with little of the resistance seen in other states.

Delta Lambda Phi - a growing national fraternity with 2,000 initiated brothers, 20 chapters and 12 other groups working to become a chapter - was approved unanimously last week by ISU's Interfraternity Council.

"I thanked them for having the courage and fortitude to expand their progressive fraternity to an area such as the Midwest that is typically not very accepting of those views," said Nathan Johnson, president of ISU's Triangle fraternity.
Delta Lambda Phi is open to gay and bisexual men, and allies, considered "progressive men." The group is now a "colony" at ISU, working toward full status as a chapter.

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"It's a big deal that the Interfraternity Council was open-minded enough to say, 'Yes, please, come along,' " Garner said of Iowa State. "That shows a really great step forward in general in the Midwest for an open-minded society that probably wasn't there a few years ago."

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