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<p>I have to disagree. I’ve spent some time at both. UT is liberal by Texas standards, which is to say pretty middle-of-the-road by Northern standards. Michigan is pretty ultraliberal by Northern standards. Michigan is more liberal.</p>
<p>The University of Michigan was the first college in the U.S. to establish a LGBT programs office, and Ann Arbor was the first community in the country to establish a gay rights law (1972) and the first to elect an openly gay public official (Kathy Kozachenko, elected to Ann Arbor City Council in January, 1974, 10 months before Elaine Noble was elected to the Massachusetts legislature and three years before Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco board of supervisors). </p>
<p>Campus Pride rates the University of Michigan 5 stars out of 5 in its “campus climate index” (i.e., LGBT-friendly), one of only 34 colleges and universities to earn that rank. UConn rates 4.5 stars, UT-Austin 4 stars, The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students (2007) also named Michigan one of the top 20 choices for LGBT students; neither UT-Austin nor UConn made that list. Newsweek in 2010 named Michigan #5 most gay-friendly college or university, topped only by Penn, UC-Berkeley, Oberlin, and NYU; neither UConn nor UT Austin made their top 25.</p>
<p>Ann Arbor is also frequently favorably reviewed among top LGBT-friendly towns and in LGBT travel magazines and websites. As one of those websites notes, it’s not always obvious to visitors just how gay-friendly Ann Arbor is because by now it’s just so deeply imprinted into the city’s DNA that to local people it’s just no big deal.</p>