I am not too sure, but in my opinion, while there is an LGBTQ community, some students and university policies seem to hurt LGBTQ students.
A lot of people at Notre Dame accept and try to be allies to the LGBTQ community. When walking around campus, there are numerous pride flags hanging from dorms and other buildings. Also, during my Moreau class, the university was trying to make everyone more understanding and accepting of others. There is also Ally Week, which I think was supposed to raise awareness of the LGBTQ issues.
On the other hand, as a Catholic university, Notre Dame has some policies which may not align with LGBTQ views. For example, in “Beloved Friends and Allies: A Pastoral Plan for the Support and Holistic Development of GLBTQ and Heterosexual Students at the University of Notre Dame”, which was a required reading for Moreau class, the university states that “With the Church, the University continues to note ‘the distinction commonly drawn between the homosexual condition or tendency and individual homosexual actions’”. So basically, the university promotes the acceptance of LGBTQ students, but does not condone “homosexual actions”. However, this policy aligns with their outdate “no sex before marriage” policy as the Catholic church does not allow same-sex partners to marry.
In addition, there are some groups and students on campus that have views that do not align with the LGBTQ community. For example, the group, Students for Child-Oriented Policy basically promotes the idea that same-sex couples should not be able to adopt children, stating “SCOP holds the union of a man and woman together that is inherently oriented toward family life”.
So while there are some unfriendly policies, I would say that the majority of the students at Notre Dame are very accepting of the LGBTQ community. In any environment, there are going to be those who disagree. One of my best friends at Notre Dame is gay, and I think she would say that she has had a good experience at Notre Dame so far.
btw, here are the links that I pulled the quotes above from:
https://friendsandallies.nd.edu/
https://scop.nd.edu/about.html