Pledge Watchers (Part 6 end of series)

Why that smile on his face?  It looks like Mark's blown every cock at school-not to mention taking himself solo to a climax three additional times.   A true trooper, Mark is ready for even more pants snakes as he invites the two last gents to also say hello to his tonsils.  It looks like Mark is going to fit into the fat house after all! 

The theme of fraternity house sexual servants in smut has been popular for a long time (in literature, photographs and films) and continues to draw upon male sexual fantasies.  There are several porn sites themed specifically to fraternity men and pledges.

Actual accounts of frat house hazings including homosexual acts between pledges and house brothers were onetime only gossip traded among college friends and, as we've seen here, the stuff of porn fantasies.  But things changed as news reports of actual 'sexual hazing' rituals gone wrong made headlines over a decade ago.  Sometimes they had strong homosexual overtures (including drinking beer run down the naked backs and ass cracks of other frat men, and 'hot dog and buns' where the pledges would have to stick a hot dog between their own buns and go further to insert the hot dog into their own ass as frat brothers cheered on) emerged and school regulators were forced to take action and not look the other way any longer. 

Football and Jerry Smith

 

Gerald "Jerry" Sanford Smith (July 19, 1943 – October 15, 1986) was a professional football tight end for the National Football League's Washington Redskins from 1965–1977. By all accounts, the 6' 3"  blonde Smith had a stellar career. 

Kids collected Jerry's cards.  He played in the 1973 Super Bowl VII.   During his football celebrity, Mr. Smith caught 421 passes, including 60 touchdowns, a record at the time. He was named All-Pro twice and held NFL records that stood for years.  Jerry was so popular that he even had his very own toy action figure, and sports magazines glorified him.   It seemed obvious that the game loved Jerry and Jerry loved the game. Smith was lauded by Sports Illustrated as a top pass catching tight end during his era.


But all that fame, all that praise was professional and not about his personal life.  There was something about Jerry that many who knew him suspected: Smith was gay.  Many modern sports historians suggest that Jerry was probably considered too-talented to force out of the game based simply on the gay rumors, and indeed there was no need, since masculine Jerry remained in the closet.  Many fans believe Smith, based on his sports record, belongs today in the NFL Hall of Fame, and can't understand why he hasn't been recognized when others who achieved much less, have. Many question if the NFL is prepared to recognize a gay player who died of AIDS. 

After retiring from football, Jerry co-owned The Boathouse, a gay bar in Austin, Texas.  Perhaps, if he had lived in another era,  things would have been different and Jerry might have been allowed to quietly remain in the media closet, forever immortalizing his straight professional sports image. But like so many others that were caught in the social fishnet of the AIDS nightmare, that was not to be the case.

Pro football player David Kopay (who was profiled here at VGMH this week) finally "outed" Jerry when Dave came out himself (after Smith had died of AIDS ..becoming the first former professional athlete to die of the disease).  In his book, David told the story of their sexual relationship.  Although Jerry acknowledged that he had AIDS, Mr. Smith never publicly acknowledged himself as being a gay man.