<p>Just curious.</p>
<p>(thanks)</p>
<p>very much so (Stanford gay here :P)</p>
<p>from wat ive heard, extremely</p>
<p>so friendly, you’ll see a circle jerk every time you walk into Roble showers</p>
<p>i wish i were joking</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. (I’ll know where not to go)</p>
<p>I was thinking about writing about being gay for my roomate essay.</p>
<p>Search the forum–there have been lots of discussions about the gay community at Stanford. (In short, if you show that you don’t support gay rights, you will be judged. Not kidding.)</p>
<p>lol @ the above replies for different reasons.</p>
<p>first of all, MrHappiSun, lots of people wirte about being gay in your roommate essay, so go for it. I did as well</p>
<p>I will admit roble showers are definitely a mess, but to be fair those aren’t the same people that are active parts of the gay community at stanford that you see at the center or terra. rather those are people that aren’t out and trying to get theirs anonymously. lol.</p>
<p>@phantasmagoric I don’t really know what you mean by saying if you don’t support gay rights you will be judged. if you are homophobic here you will be judged for sure (and I think thats reasonable), but no one expects everyone to be running around with a rainbow flag. I dont’ even do that :P</p>
<p>I hope too many people didn’t write about being gay.</p>
<p>And if they did, I’m hoping it’s different than mine.</p>
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<p>You misunderstood me. What I mean to say is, if you express that you are against gay rights, you will be judged and/or criticized. (Not that everyone goes around visibly supporting gay rights.)</p>
<p>Of course everybody is gay in stanford. Even i would be if i get in…wats wrong with with…although i mean gay as in happy…lol.</p>
<p>It’s definitely an extremely supportive and gay-friendly environment here. No question.</p>
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I guess I’m not really sure what you mean by being against “gay rights”. but ya if you go around being homophobic you’ll definitely be given a hard time (rightfully so). but you dont have to support same-sex marriage or anything (but if you don’t you’ll probably need to have a better reason than just my religion says X).</p>
<p>It’s simple: gay rights, as a civil rights movement, are mostly supported at Stanford. You don’t have to be “homophobic” to be given a hard time–if you say you don’t think that gay rights are legitimate (e.g. gay marriage shouldn’t be allowed), you will be judged. It’s just part of the culture. Did you see the demonstration last year on White Plaza? A few “Yes on Prop 8” people were out, and it was essentially them vs. the entire school.</p>
<p>Yeah, from the preceptive of someone who lives in Palo Alto, pretty much the whole Silicon valley is Gay friendly.</p>
<p>just one question: is the lgbt scene overwhelming at all? i myself am bi and would like to get involved a little bit with it, but i don’t really like when the lgbt scene is crazy-overwhelming like it might be at nyu, vassar, etc.</p>
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I’m not sure what you mean by ‘overwhelming’, but I’m straight and I’ve never been overwhelmed by the LGBT scene. The only time when the LGBT community really became a focal point of campus was during the Prop 8 protests, and during that it was really most of the campus rallying around the LGBT community.</p>
<p>^well at some campuses (like nyu or vassar, like i mentioned) it seems that almost a majority of people are gay and that they are disproportionately vocal about it in comparison to other groups and such, and that they highly influence the culture of the campus, etc. but from what you said, it doesn’t sound like that’s the case at stanford.</p>