Lots of fuming, totally-not-homophobic commenters are seeing the new, camptastic Yale Admissions Video, That’s Why I Chose Yale, as something wholly unprecedented, and — in its tight falsetto harmonies and flamboyant prancing — a betrayal of all the manly ideals of Ol’ Blue. Wrong. The video — which has divided teh Internet and sent our very own Bobby Fineman into a coma — is more than a fabulous flash in the pan. Take a gander below. Recently, a bunch of struggling-actor-type Yale grads got together and wrote a musical of a different sort. Actually, it’s not that different of a sort. It’s creatively called “Gay Ivy,” and features many gay people and things, including Kobi Libii ‘07, star of the new Admissions Video. Also, lolz:

“And though I’m something of a maven, there’s something in New Haven, I really can’t explain! … Nigeria has stamine / Ireland has famine / San Juan and San Jose have silent “j’s” / Manhattan has a plaza / Israel has the Gaza / but Yale… has… the gaaaays! *vibrato*”

Winding back the clock even further, IvyGate has uncovered the Admission’s Video’s direct homophilic descendent: “Mean Gays.” With a little help from our friends at the ever-clever Bullblog, we can safely tell you that the Yale Admissions Video would never have seen the light of day were it not for this gay-to-the-max Mean Girls parody, and its star and creator. The fabulous man in question is Mark Dunn ‘07 – former Yalie, a-ca-fella, and featured hunk in Rumpus’ 50 Most Beautiful. He’s now a Yale admissions officer, and – save our souls — the master puppeteer behind That’s Why I Chose Yale.

With no further comment, we give you “Mean Gays,” the story of one mountain boy’s journey of self-discovery from boy-crushing-bumpkin to catty-stereotype, immersed in the gay Eden that is Yale College.

“Oh, we’re not interested in books. We came here for the Boys.”

Finally, in the movie American Psycho, Christian Bale plays a Harvard-grad serial-killer and says some funny, enlightening shit.

“You know, that ‘Yale thing’”

Our conclusion? Call the new Yale Admissions Video what you like, but ‘without precedent’? We think not. But, you protest, what about all the scared little high-schoolers out there, cringing and tearing up their applications at even a whisper of man-on-man action. Well, so what if they don’t apply; Yale has far too many transcripts flooding in as is. Quality over quantity. (In fact, maybe That’s Why I Chose Yale is just the admissions office’s secret plot to reduce their paperwork…)

The kids who get a kick out of beautiful cinematography/people/harmonies, irony, and tongue-in-cheek hilarity could be a little more attractive and conducive to Yale than the humorless, self-important, vaguely homophobic douches who can’t watch musical theatre or two guys kissing without feeling insecure. For the latter folks, well… that’s why they chose Dartmouth.

Yale students are no doubt happy, but are they also gayer than their counterparts at other schools? That according to the latest issue of Yale Alumni Magazine, whose cover purports to explain “Why They Call Yale the Gay Ivy.” What you find out quickly is the reason they call Yale the Gay Ivy is because they call it the Gay Ivy.

In addition to the 1987 declaration  “Suddenly Yale is a gay school,” the assiduous editors offer such hard-hitting journalism as citing Wikipedia (but who doesn’t?) and availing themselves of that old saw, anecdotal evidence:

Yale probably does, however, have a higher proportion of gay students than other Ivies; there are no statistics, but many gay Yale students think it’s true. And if you walk around campus for a while on your visit, you may see a gay couple holding hands.

Well, if Yale students think it’s true, it must be. The fact gay Yalies are more comfortable holding hands than they might at, say, Princeton, where the gay community reportedly turns to Craig’s List for discreet hook-ups, supports the claim a bit more, though.

After the jump: how Yale came out, angry alumni commenters, and Patrick Bateman explains how he knew Yale was the Gay Ivy all along.

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Our commenters aren’t known for taking the high road. Our boards tend to devolve into a sort of “my school is better than yours but at least we can all agree that Cornell sucks” type mentality. But people, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Gaylies extraordinaire Akash and Victor – or maybe just their campaign “surrogates” – are duking it out, JuicyCampus-style, on our comment boards. Despite all sorts ofpseudonums, most of the comments come from the same IP addresses, posting again and again. Both Victor and Akash claim they are not the posters, only to follow up their denials with juicy tidbits more or less proving that they are in fact Victor or Akash or close friends. Did Akash lie to get into Yale? Did Victor ruin his life? Who knows?

Highlights: “cc” calls Akash a “psycho-loser” and “midget,” and writes with glee about how Akash will soon be “raped and beaten in prison for 25 years.” “ha ha” responds, calling Victor a “cross eyed bipolar, trailor trash freak” and insinuates that Victor may have had sex with his uncle as well as underage children – and that his mom supposedly had an affair with an illegal immigrant. It only gets worse from there. In all likelihood, none of these things are true – but to see the horrific results of love gone awry is nothing short of incredible.

After the jump: the flame war continues. How about a cease-fire, guys? We’d happy to engage in some shuttle diplomacy.

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