The birthplace of the American military’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, or ROTC, program is now the birthplace of first known “gay” pride events – such as a planned “condom Olympics” and “queer prom” – on a U.S. military campus.
Norwich University in Northfield, Vt., founded in 1819 as the first private military academy in the U.S., is in the middle of six days of events hosted by the university’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Question, and Allies Club, or NULGBTQA.
According to a university press release, six days of events are scheduled, one day for each color of the LGBT community’s rainbow flag, with each color representing a LGBT issue or theme, such as red for AIDS awareness and green for allies of “gay” students....
