<p>In response to Senior Dad's comment, do NOT go to UGA if you want to study in an environment that is very accepting of LGBT and their lifestyle.</p>
<p>Well, I am from a town with a very open and affirming public liberal arts college: The University of Montevallo in Montevallo, AL (a small and GLBT-friendly town of 10,000). And I am a rising junior at a private liberal arts college: Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA. Randolph itself and the Rivermont/Boonesboro community is very GLBT-friendly, but Lynchburg is also home to Liberty University (Jerry Falwell ring a bell?) which is not at all gay-friendly. Lynchburg, then, provides good opprotunities for GLBT outreach while also having safe-havens for GLBT membes. Both Montevallo and Randolph are good places to be.</p>
<p>I wonder why they named it Lynchburg.</p>
<p>What’s in a name, as they say…</p>
<p>You needn’t wonder. A cursory internet search shows that it’s named after a John Lynch.</p>
<p>[Lynchburg</a>, Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“Lynchburg, Virginia - Wikipedia”>Lynchburg, Virginia - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Okay, now question #2… How did John Lynch get the name, John Lynch? (jk…sorry to be redundant)</p>
<p>Some more liberal schools in the south:</p>
<p>Duke
Rice
UNC-CH
Maybe Tulane</p>
<p>Mid-atlantic: still kinda southern:
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
UVA(?)</p>
<p>Anyways, most college students in general will be more tolerant of gays, but the colleges listed above will be considered liberal if they were in the south (though then again, most of them would be considered moderately liberal if they were staked next to Yale or heaven forbid, NYU…lol)</p>