Gay fraternity initiation

In the early s, I tried to join a frat at Georgia State University. An initiation activity may involve learning the history and principles of the group, engaging in recreational, team-building or community-building games, or overcoming some physical challenge that requires skill or maturity.

When initiation rites are done appropriately, they meet needs for a sense of belonging, and the group's needs for members to understand the history and culture of the group, and build relationships with others who belong.

An initiation activity may involve learning the history and principles of the group, engaging in recreational, team-building or community-building games, or overcoming some physical. It gives new members a sense of belonging, it builds common experiences among the whole group and sets norms among them necessary for performing.

Fraternity Hazing What to : Popular movies and mainstream media often portray so-called “frat guys” in a particularly unflattering fashion—affluent young white men engaged in boorish party behavior, and often hazing their peers

It was the week before pledges get initiated – popularly known as “Hell Week” – and I was nervous. Many groups, from executive boards to tribal societies, have recognized the need to initiate new members. As the fraternity’s first-ever openly gay member, each new challenge not only tested my resilience but also brought into sharp focus my ongoing struggle for acceptance and community.

Initiation rites are activities expected of someone in order to be treated as a full member of a group. Brother elders typically guide initiation rites toward specific goals using specific means gleaned from years of experience, insight, and wisdom.

That’s not the point of this story. A knot of anxiety tightened in my stomach. Many groups, from executive boards to tribal societies, have recognized the need to initiate new members. Initiates, however, do not know what is happening to them or what it means; their knowledge and comprehension will come gradually.

Initiation rites are comprised of pro-social behaviors that build social relationships, understanding, empathy, civility, altruism and moral decision-making. It is also important for existing members of groups to initiate the new members.

It is also an essential aspect of gaining acceptance into an organization Driver, Initiation rites are activities expected of someone in order to be treated as a full member of a group. This moment, shrouded in uncertainty, mirrored the complex feelings I’d been wrestling with since joining the fraternity three weeks earlier.

No, I won’t say which one.

This is the worst outcome I could have expected from being hazed by a fraternity.