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Zachary Quinto’s new project explores forgotten gay purge at Harvard
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A post shared by Zachary Quinto (@zacharyquinto)Zachary Quinto has announced that he is to produce and star in a new podcast exploring a little-known episode of queer history.Secret Court will be a scripted podcast looking at events at Harvard University 100 years ago.
In 1920, an undergraduate called Cyril Wilcox died by suicide. Wilcox was gay, and following his death, the university launched a witch hunt against fellow gay students and faculty members.Related: Zachary Quinto reveals what prompted his decision to come outIt set up a secret court to root out and expel anyone it believed to be gay.
Led by the then-President, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, and Deans, the court condemned eight students, four “accomplices” and a handful of Cambridge.
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