Is Duke LGBT Friendly?

IBclass06
Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:37:06 +0000

iseephonies:

I do not speak from personal experience because neither do I go to Duke nor am I gay.

Then perhaps you should defer to those who actually know what they’re talking about – namely, the students who’ve experienced the school in question.

As a gay student, I’ve paid a lot of attention to these threads as a matter of curiosity, and I’ve noticed several Duke students write glowing reviews of LGBT life there.

Interestingly enough, his post history indicates that the OP chose Duke in the end and likes it quite a lot:

lalala06:

As a gay student here at duke I have to say that the lgbt community is really great here. There are different events during the fall and spring semester that allow gay students to host events and participate in them. The center on west campus is constantly growing and is a great place to visit during the day. Every friday there is an event at the center from 4-6 where all gay students can just eat and socialize with other LGBT students. Next week is the pride parade and its being held on east campus (campus for freshman) and last year it was very well attended and had the support of all duke students. People here are very accepting about gay students, after all, this is one of the nation’s elite universities, there isn’t a lot of room for bigotry. If you ever want to ask me more questions just PM me and i’ll be more than happy to answer your questions.



Personally, I think PiMC2CM should be applauded. It’s always nice to hear directly from the horse’s mouth. It gets so tiresome hearing the same old tripe on CC (Harvard is not good for undergrads, Wharton is 10x better than Penn CAS, Duke is more homophobic than Fred Phelps, Dartmouth students have a BAC of 50%, Berkeley classes have 567623 students, etc.).

As for digging up old threads, I must admit that I despise thread necromancy, but PiMC2CM has not posted since well before this thread was created, so perhaps (s)he chose to resurrect this thread rather than create a new one. Slightly annoying but understandable.