BC and the LGBT Community

LA4928
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:41:14 +0000

When I left BC in 2015, one of the major topics of discussion regarding the lack of a center dedicated specifically for LGBTQ students. Instead, LGBTQ resources are found under the umbrella of the “Women’s Center” at BC, which some find inappropriate. From my experience, the Women’s Center is actually really fantastic, and happy to provide resources to anyone regardless of gender, but I’m also not LGBTQ and can’t speak for those students. What I recommend for anyone looking at schools including BC is to try to find the school’s newspaper(s) and search around a bit. You’ll get a way better, broader perspective on the actual issues on campus via articles, opinion columns, etc. Obviously some newspapers will be skewed, but reading responses in this thread from people who aren’t actually current students at BC, aren’t LGBTQ, etc. is not going to give you a good idea of what the current climate is on campus.

The self proclaimed independent newspaper on campus is The Heights (http://bcheights.com/). The Torch is BC’s Catholic newspaper (http://www.thetorchbc.com/), and the progressive paper is The Gavel (http://bcgavel.com/). There are probably others I can’t remember as well. BC is not a perfect school that is perfectly inclusive of everyone, like most (if not all) colleges. There are great things on campus like the “Support Love” campaign (you’ll see people wearing these shirts all the time), but the LGBTQ students I knew were pretty open about feeling that there were sometimes problems at BC. I can’t speak to how much that impacted their experience, but it’s there. If you’re seriously considering BC and really worried about this, take the time to search LGBT/LGBTQ in these papers and read what students are writing about these issues.