<p>Sorry, I don’t want to sound corny, but which of the colleges on my list colleges where you can “explore your sexuality”. I just want to go to a college that’s more gay friendly. Also, I’m not going to include the obvious ones.
-Columbia
-UChicago
-Duke
-Emory
-Rice
-Swarthmore
-Vanderbilt
-WUSTL</p>
<p>I’d hazard a guess that Columbia and Swarthmore would both be very gay-friendly.</p>
<p>cross off duke, WUSTL, vanderbilt, emory</p>
<p>you can always get matched on a gay hotline. Plenty of exploring can be done there.</p>
<p>Don’t listen to rymd. I only have experience at WUSTL, so I know for a fact it’s gay-friendly. I can only assume that for the most part liberalism follows intellectualism, and therefore the others should be relatively open as well. Many anecdotes on this site seem to support that assumption.</p>
<p>With a few exceptions that are known for being conservative schools, most selective schools are fairly LGBT friendly. Granted, some of them may be more so than others, but I don’t think it should be an important factor in your decision. The attitudes of the individual people you end up interacting with are what will actually determine how accepted you feel as an LGBT student, not the school as a whole.</p>
<p>That said, LACs are probably the most gay-friendly group of schools in general, and you don’t appear to have considered (very many of) them. LACs are great for that and many other reasons. If you want to have small classes and easy access to your professors along with the incredibly open mindset, you really should check out some more LACs.</p>
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Ummm… Which are the obvious gay-friendly colleges?</p>
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Assuming the OP is gay the small size of a LAC may bring some issues however gay friendly the school is … a school with 2000 students may only have about 100 possible partners on campus for a gay student (assuming 10% of students are gay and a 50/50 male/female ratio)</p>
<p>I would be really surprised if it’s really 10%</p>
<p>The obvious ones, b@r!um, would probably be the “very” liberal colleges: Reed, Macalester, Sarah Lawrence, Carleton, and the New College, among others.</p>
<p>Oh, and spectastic, that’s the widely-accepted percentage, although surveys swing fairly wildly because of what constitutes being “gay” in the eyes of survey respondents.</p>
<p>Check out American and George Washington.</p>
<p>The schools I have are schools from my primary list minus like 15 because they are either obvious in regards to this (ie. brown, wesleyan, berkeley) or because they’re just not very high on my list of schools I want to go to, and my college councilor put them there (ie. University of Rochester). So, please don’t give any suggestions not on the list. </p>
<p>In regards to the 10% thing, I’ve heard that is pretty accepted, although it’s difficult because it’s not as black and white as most people think. Do you consider someone who’s bisexual in the gay category? What if they’re bisexual but married to a female? What if they’re bisexual, married to a female, and 90% of the time only like women, but there are occasions when they’re attracted to men. That’s why the number is hard to estimate. Also, there are many gays who simply stay in the closet for most of, or their entire life. You can’t identify them by looking at them.</p>
<p>I guess that most top schools are a least semi-liberal so it’s not like I would be crucified or anything. Could you just do something like ranking these schools, or giving a little comment on each of them, or something? I’m most curious about Rice, Emory, WashU, and Vandy since I’m visiting them soon.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Yeah, most colleges are such hotbeds of social conservatism, you really gotta be careful where you go, right…?</p>
<p>What the heck is the point of this thread…</p>
<p>“What the heck is the point of this thread…”</p>
<p>Well, when you’re a member of the currently most discriminated against minority in the nation, it’s perfectly logical to be concerned about your happiness at a place in which you’ll be spending the first four years of the rest of your life. And if you do happen to grow up in a hotbed of social conservatism (as I has the misfortune of doing), it’s quite easy to overestimate the hostility you will receive elsewhere in the nation. That is the point.</p>
<p>So… any helpful commentary? I was thinking I want to be get involved in a more activist environment, so probably a school in/near a city. Which of these schools would be good for me?</p>
<p>It sounds like Brown would be a pretty solid fit based just on this</p>
<p>NYU, It’s right in NYC, the most diverse place ever. When ever I am in the city I see plenty of gay people.</p>
<p>Most discriminated against minority? The entire media, ruling class, and educational establishment bends over backwards to push the gay acceptance agenda, will you dispute this? Just because voters decide not to confer the completely phony institution of “gay marriage” on people hardly means they’re turning the hoses on you and looking the other way on lynchings.</p>
<p>A gay person in this country has every right a non-gay person has. “Gay marriage” is a total red herring, it’s all about a silly piece of paper from the government.</p>
<p>And if we’re counting sexual orientations as minority groups now, I think you’ll find that pedophiles are the most discriminated-against “minority.”</p>
<p>As usual, I agree 10000% with TomServo.
You’ve been brainwashed into thinking gays are the most discriminated minority in the country- which is downright absurd. </p>
<p>Anyone who even respectfully makes a case against gay marriage is labelled a xenophobe, bigot, redneck, you name it.</p>