The Artist s Wife).
On May 13, 1920, Cyril Wilcox, a
sophomore at Harvard, took his own life. The night before, Wilcox
confessed to his brother that he was gay and had been having an
affair with a Boston man. Wilcox s confession led Harvard to create a
Secret Court to investigate claims of gay activity on campus. Eight
students, four “accomplices,” and a handful of locals were tried
by the court. The students were expelled and purged from official
records. The incident was kept secret until 2002.
Quinto said in a statement that the
students were “sidelined due to the social intolerance of their
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Zachary Quinto is headed back to college to tell a tragic century-old story about homophobia at Harvard University.
The Star Trek actor will voice and produce the scripted audio series about events which took place at the top U.S.
university in 1920, when staff members quietly removed a group of gay students, following the tragic suicide of one of them, named Cyril Wilcox.
Academic leaders had founded their own Secret Court to investigate the death, which led not only to the remaining men being expelled from Harvard but to the excising of their names from the institution s academic records as if they had never existed.
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