<p>Suze,
While topically I may agree with your idea, if you look at some concrete data (which I have seen but am not able to provide), gay teens have a higher rate of dropping out of high school and/or lower grades, higher instance of drug problems, and much higher suicide rates than their straight counterparts. It is in this way that gay students could gain an admissions advantage, but the same sort of “not offered the same opportunities” idea that semi-works for the African-American/Caucasian comparison doesn’t really apply, since being gay is much more “random”. </p>
<p>To the OP,
I did not mention being gay in any of my essays, but I did include the GLBT youth group I used to go to in my ECs, so the information was there without me having to force it upon the admissions committee. </p>
<p>SirTrev,
Gays are certainly not an ORM (if such a thing exists) when compared to a racial group such as Asians (which really only applies at some colleges, because they are URMs at schools like Vanderbilt), but they certainly compose a substantial part of most campuses, especially those with more liberal or less religious personalities.</p>