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Hazing: I Was My Fraternity's First Gay Pledge

Hazing: I Was My Fraternity's First Gay Pledge
world9/14/2025

"Sand was stuck under my nails and all over my face and eyes. Soon, the pledge masters began punishing us for no other reason than to make us suffer."

On a cold, stormy September night in 2018, my 14 fraternity pledge brothers and I received this ambiguous text from one of our pledge masters: “Tonight’s education meeting is canceled. At 11pm, you will all load into three of your cars and drive to t... [13821 chars]