At Notre Dame, gay film fest a first
My first thought when I saw this article in yesterday’s Chicago Trib was a a sarcastic, “their parents must be so proud.”

Some gay grads look back on their Notre Dame experience with anger and memories of pain--among them Don Roos, the festival's featured speaker. He went on to a Hollywood career, writing and directing films such as "The Opposite of Sex," "Bounce," and "Happy Endings."

"I'm only doing this for the kids there, to show them there's an alternative," Roos said. "I've never contributed to Notre Dame in any way, because in my years it was such a repressive place."

Of course, I did not graduate from a repressive Catholic college. I am a graduate of a non-repressive Catholic college. I whince when I look back at the behavior that was encouraged, enabled and tolerated. I don’t think I would have suffered from a little more so-called repression.