Zachary Quinto to Star in Podcast About the Harvard Suicide Scandal
The actor will also produce the project documenting the university s purge of gay students in 1920.
American Horror Story star
Zachary Quinto is bringing an often forgotten part of gay American history to our ears next year.
Deadline reports that Quinto is set to both star in and produce
Secret Court, a new scripted podcast covering the Harvard Gay Purge of 1920, when the esteemed university formed a secret court in order to find and expel gay students.
The court was formed after a gay sophomore, Cyril Wilcox, took his own life.
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Zachary Quinto is set to produce and star in
Secret Court, a scripted podcast based on the Harvard gay purge of 1920, which took place after the suicide of sophomore Cyril Wilcox.
Deadline explains: “Wilcox was part of a small group of gay male students, and his suicide led Harvard to instigate an impromptu and merciless Secret Court. It was led by the University’s then president and deans at the time, and condemned eight students, four ‘accomplices’ and a handful of Cambridge locals. The ad-hoc court shamed and denounced these innocents as offenders, purging and erasing them from all official records as if they never existed at Harvard at all. And it had been kept a dark secret for more than 80 years.”