<p>Maize, no, it doesn't make me feel special. Go for it. Don't leave your opinions UNSPOKEN, as you put it. Post it. I'm a big boy.</p>
<p>Speaking of unspoken impressions . . . now, would you please answer MY question? I'm seriously interested in knowing what you mean in your post. Seriously.</p>
<p>Suny Purchase</p>
<p>pretty much any school that isn't BYU- Bob Jones U- evangelical Xian- or any place that does a lot of preaching is going have GLBT groups on campus
Universities by definition are a place where people go to increase knowledge and increasing knowledge generally leads to increasing acceptance level for those who think different</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lgbtcenters.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.lgbtcenters.org/</a>
this should have links to college centers someplace</p>
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There are schools that are gay friendly and there are schools that are militant bastions of homosexuality.
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<p>I'm curious too. Had an example in mind?</p>
<p>We wanna know what you mean?</p>
<p>These are the schools that aggressively recruit gay students: </p>
<p><a href="http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/youth/a/College.htm%5B/url%5D">http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/youth/a/College.htm</a>
<a href="http://gaylife.about.com/od/headlinesnewsstories/a/gay_university.htm%5B/url%5D">http://gaylife.about.com/od/headlinesnewsstories/a/gay_university.htm</a></p>
<p>How do you get "agressively recruit" out of "GBLT friendly"?
This is the school that really could be said to be agressive in recruiting my daughter ( even though she didn't inquire- they called often and sent lots of materials)
(Its from their profile on website
Walla Walla College is dedicated to the academic, spiritual, social and physical aspects of a total education. Believing that these dimensions are closely related, the College provides a broad range of activities and opportunities designed to add depth and maturity to a Christ-centered life.</p>
<p>I don't really know much about 7th day adventists- but perhaps they were interested in making their campus more diverse?</p>
<p>( Daughter is a lesbian and has been out since 11th gd)
They called even when we told them that she was going someplace else, and told her that if she wanted to transfer they would offer her money :)</p>
<p>There's another thread about this on the College Life Forum. As I said there, pretty much any school with a large arts conservatory that is not in the south will be gay friendly. I think the gay pride group at SUNY Purchase is one of the largest on campus. From what I've been told, it's almost considered quaint to be straight there in a lot of circles. See also Emerson College, Carnegie Mellon, University of Hartford, and Otterbein College. I also have a very "out" gay friend who is going to Yale and he seems to feel quite welcomed. Vassar, Bard, and Oberlin ... Yeah ... Big gay communities. I went to an arts high school and know at least one happy homosexual at all those places.</p>
<p>Yale has the best (or at least best-known, and certainly best funded) lesbian and gay studies department in the country, and attracts a significant portion of lesbian and gay undergraduates as a result.</p>
<p>Bob Jones University
Yeshiva University
Touro College</p>
<p>I hear Welleseley is lesbian heaven, especially because Hilary Clinton went there (I think I gleaned that fact from Family Guy).</p>
<p>I have a gay friend who is very happy at Oberlin. She found a girlfriend right away and never feels discriminated against. I've also heard a huge number of Mount Holyoke girls are bi or gay. Also, a straight friend of mine is sad at NYU because she feels like all the guys there are gay. MIT is actually very accepting and has a decently-sized gay community, especially in the dorms on the east side of campus.</p>
<p>"I hear Welleseley is lesbian heaven, especially because Hilary Clinton went there (I think I gleaned that fact from Family Guy)."</p>
<p>This board is peppered with idiotic statements, but this one is this week's clear winner.</p>
<p>I do try my best. </p>
<p>Sorry, but I've watched too much family guy for one week.</p>
<p>You need to reveal a bit more there bluerubberduck!! It sounds to me as if you are not looking for chicks but who knows......walks like a duck and all.</p>
<p>Check out the thread in College Life. That should help. </p>
<p>And Asher, that was probably one of the least founded and most idiotic statements I've heard about my new school in a long time.</p>
<p>Oh, stupid statements, fortunately, aren't restricted to this thread.</p>
<p>In another thread it was suggested that women's colleges are annoying because all girls want to do is shop and talk about boys.</p>
<p>So I guess you're heading to a very unique campus jam-packed full of lesbians who are boy crazy. By golly, I hope you keep a journal; surely there's a movie (if not a Ripley's Believe It Or Not deal) in this for you somehow.</p>
<p>--hoedown, woman's college graduate counting the minutes until she can GO SHOPPING FOR SOME MORE SHOES! Squeeee!</p>
<p>Same ones that I posted on "Schools for gay students":</p>
<p>Definitely Ohio Wesleyan University, Oberlin College, Reed and Vassar Colleges.</p>
<p>In addition to GSAs, look for a group in Campus Life called Prism. It is also a gay support group that some campuses have. Also look for schools affiliated with the United Church of Christ; they are a Christian denomination that ordains openly gay/lesbian men and women clergy. A very progressive Protestant denomination; Elon, for example, is a UCC school..</p>
<p>One thing you will find about top schools is that their intellectual atmosphere is generally open to alternative lifestyles.</p>
<p>that being said, any northeastern urban center highly ranked university would suit your needs - NYU and Columbia come to mind. Also, Liberal arts colleges like Reed, Vassar, and Amherst are gay friendly. At all three of Amherst, Swarthmore, and Williams, at their student-invite days I'm pretty sure they mentioned something about the acceptance of all people (I guess thats implied in their "liberal arts college" title).</p>
<p>I go to Brandeis which is very gay friendly. Triskalion, our GSA organization (actually the acronym is GLBTQSA) is very active. They have a couple dances every year that are lots of fun. I think they always do one for Halloween and last year they had an 80's dance that was awesome. They also have lots of other events that go on over the year, as well as a pride month that had lots of fun things including a drag show (which was amazing) and culminated in the Day of Silence. Plus it's in Boston which is a very liberal city.</p>