ABSTRACT
As the previous three chapters describe, non-heterosexual collegiate identity types developed over time, in response to social and campus concepts as well as to other non-heterosexual identity types. To understand how the identities of non-heterosexuals on college campuses were understood by those students, one must place those identities into a historical perspective, for not only the environments of the institutions affected (and in some instances, effected) collegiate non-heterosexual identities, so did the events and public opinions of the times. In this chapter, I present a history of the changes in identity type for non-heterosexual collegians from the 1940s to the end of the twentieth century; such a chronicle contextualizes the life stories of the interviewed men, placing them in a historical framework.
