Your roommate and you being a lesbian

SilverClover
Wed, 30 May 2007 01:12:15 +0000

This is something you need to discuss with your roommate as SOON as you find out who they are.

My roommate was bi- no big deal to me. We just watched the L-Word a lot, which I could have done with a straight roomie as well so it wasn’t really an issue.

However, I had a friend who did not tell his roommate he was gay and it wasn’t too overtly obvious. His roommate (who I was friends with as well) ended up finding out 2 weeks into the school year and was very upset. On the night he found out, I had to go calm the roommate down. He wasn’t particularly homophobic, but came from a very vanilla community and was in shock. What could have been a great friendship between the two was ruined and made their entire living situation uncomfortable. The roommate told me that if he had been told before coming to school, this wouldn’t have been an issue in the least because he wouldn’t have been surprised by it.

If problems do arise, no school would make you suffer through it.