<p>I think your “location” gives that away :p</p>
<p>Hampshire College is very, very tolerant of most anything. Bard is very gay tolerant, although there isn’t quite the same visibility as at Hampshire. Wesleyan certainly. I’m surprised not to see Smith College on PR’s list.</p>
<p>I’d say NYU would definately be number one.</p>
<p>to the op:</p>
<p>are you gay?</p>
<p>This is such a 20 years ago question!</p>
<p>Having said that, Post #14 is probably the better way to approach this question. 90% of colleges and universities in this country are very civil rights/human rights oriented.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley I guess</p>
<p>Applying there this fall :)</p>
<p>George Washington University has a populous LBGT student body and it has a pretty accepting atmosphere. It helps that it’s, you know, almost as liberal as American.</p>
<p>Wellesley is very tolerant of gays, unless of course you happen to be male, in which case you need not apply.</p>
<p>In my mind, none can beat NYU. I don’t care what Princeton Review has to say. IT’S IN CHELSEA FOR GOD’S SAKE. The school’s surrounded by them physically, 24/7. You have to be accepting or else you’ll go insane.</p>
<p>^I agree! :)</p>
<p>suny Purchase- extremely tolerant of gays, because a large percentage of the male population is in fact- gay.</p>
<p>yeah, im going to have to say VASSAR is not only accepting but prides itself on its strong and active gay community.</p>
<p>What about Southern elite schools, such as Vandy, Emory, and even Tulane??</p>
<p>I heard that Vandy is a bit on the conservative side. I’m sure that there are liberals seeing as they take students from all over but that’s just what I heard. I know it’s a bit stereotypical to say this, but I do think that schools are a bit more conservative in the south, except for maybe Tulane but of course New Orleans is like on a different planet.</p>
<p>There aren’t any schools where zero incoming freshmen have provincial attitudes. This is usually a matter of heteronormativity rather than outright homophobia. But there are plenty of schools where that small number of freshmen is cured of their provincial attitudes extremely rapidly (or else they transfer out) because vocal embrace of the gay community is such a central part of the school’s culture.</p>
<p>To give examples from my own college life, at Harvard, there’s a single-digit community of nonviolent anti-gay students who had a “coming out of homosexuality” table on campus, which provoked a furor of responses from the much larger gay and gay-friendly majority. But the table was there. So that’s a very gay-friendly school where anti-gay people can exist and survive as a widely criticized fringe.</p>
<p>But at Bryn Mawr, I can’t even imagine a “coming out of homosexuality” table. I don’t know what would happen if a student tried that. My best guess is that they would be widely socially ostracized, possibly harrassed, and that there would be a lot of public calls for the student to be expelled. You just can’t be openly anti-gay there. Freshmen have to change or leave.</p>
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<p>One need only visit the discussion board for a facebook class at Emerson College to observe that it handles both being accepting and critical mass points.</p>