<p>Just wondering how accepting the school is and just the whole concept with a roommate.</p>
<p>Big presence?
easy access to west hollywood?</p>
<p>There are a lot of gay people here, and the school is pretty liberal and accepting. Sure, you can get to Hollywood easily.</p>
<p>Pretty sure the whole school is okay with gay people. During the whole prop 8 thingy, all you saw was “No on Prop 8” signs and if you ever saw a “Yes” one, well, that person would be screamed at and harassed.</p>
<p>As for roommates, that just depends on the person. I had a gay friend who got along just fine with his 2 straight roommates. You guys just have to compromise and talk about some issues that might potentially arise though, like if you want to hang a poster that one roommate might be uncomfortable with, or whatnot.</p>
<p>There’s like a tiny, teeny itzy small chance you might get a Republican, Sarah-Palin supporting, Tea Party, Westboro Church attending, ultra conservative Quaker roommate. If that is the case, well, gg.</p>
<p>UCLA is a public university in southern california. Therefore, it is accepting of gays.</p>
<p>Doesn’t take any brains to figure out that one.</p>
<p>There’s also some work being done (slowly) on creating a gender neutral dorm, so if you feel uncomforrtable with the roommate situation, you can look into rooming with someone of the opposite gender or someone who is definitely chill.</p>
<p>[UCLA</a>, Princeton Top Gay-Friendly Colleges List | News | The Advocate](<a href=“http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/08/04/UCLA,_Princeton_Top_Friendliest_Colleges_List/]UCLA”>http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/08/04/UCLA,_Princeton_Top_Friendliest_Colleges_List/)</p>
<p>^ In fact, everyone is gay at UCLA…</p>
<p>stay away from the Christian groups though. they’re quite touchy on the issue.</p>
<p>
not me
and not the Chancellor
and not my math prof</p>
<p>The UC system is especially welcoming to the gay community which is why I am proud to be in it. Every school has a LGBT resource center. Make sure to check it out!</p>
<p>[UCLA</a> LGBT Resource Center](<a href=“http://www.lgbt.ucla.edu/]UCLA”>http://www.lgbt.ucla.edu/)</p>
<p>We should change our motto from Bruin Pride, to Gay Pride :)</p>
<p>“stay away from the Christian groups though. they’re quite touchy on the issue.”</p>
<p>Thats like the most prejudiced statement I have heard.
I am a Christian, and you might say that I am biased in such issue, but man, thats some lack of sound judgement.
When a university wants diversity, it is not just in color, but also in religion and political views.
If everyone agrees to a statement, we stop learning, and the fact that we attend higher education is to know how to think critically.</p>
<p>^My floor has a lot of members of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and I have to say he has a point. I entered the year unsure of where I stood religiously and because of this I took interest in their club when they’d talk to me about it. I went to a few of their meetings and consistently found that there was little room for those uncertain about some of the parts of the bible, let alone those who weren’t totally convinced of God’s existence in the first place. They were really nice and very inclusive until Winter quarter. By the point, it had apparently become clear that I was not “serious” about being a Christian because I didn’t go to any of their meetings and so most of them just started to ignore me in order to seek other “converts”. While some of them remain really nice and sweet, most of them look down on you for not being Christian. By no means do I think these people are representative of Christians as a whole, in fact I consider myself marginally Christian, but it is my belief that the people in Christian groups as a whole tend to be pretty judgmental.</p>
<p>Look I’m not saying that if you’re gay, Christians will chuck rocks at you and harass you with offensive slander, but you’re definitely going to be frowned upon.</p>
<p>If you are gay, just talk to one of them. They will tell you directly what their opinion is. If you are gay and you want to join a Christian club, yet continue your lifestyle, you will not be allowed to serve on any leadership positions, that’s for certain. And if you embrace yourself instead of rejecting your identity, you’ll be heavily frowned upon.</p>
<p>^Well of course not, that is illegal.</p>
<p>I dont know, but personally I rather have someone tell me they support gay marriage instead of “ehhh, idk, perhaps, i really dont know.” Being sure of what you believe is something I respect. Wether it is buddhist, atheist, muslim, etc.
But yea, it is true. Christians are not supportive of gay movements.
But the fact that gay people arent allowed to church? Thats a lie. According to our own theology, a sinner is a sinner, whether you lied or are gay (and liars attend church). If that is not true in the case of the church you see, I am truly sorry.</p>
<p>As gandhi once said it, “I like your Christ, but not you, Christians.” Sometimes, christians fall immensely short on the true example of our model.
Anyways, enough with the theology 
I just want to say that Christians arent the only ones that oppose gay movements: Buddhists, Muslims, and even some liberals.</p>
<p>^ You mustn’t forget that Christians [some extreme, and some not] are a driving force behind legislation against gay rights in America.</p>
<p>There actually are some gay Christian groups on campus, albeit most of the ones I know are Catholic based. There’s one affiliated with UCC (University Catholic Center)… and there’s also another one that has pseudo-Bible study groups where they talk about gay issues in the Bible and Catholicism… too bad I never learned their names. I’m not sure on the Christian ones though, since I’m not really close friends with any gay Christians (that I know of).</p>
<p>Anyways, I just wanted to say that overall, UCLA is rather welcoming of LGBT individuals. There’s an LGBT Center in the SAC (Student’s Activities Center) almost across from the UCLA store where you can hang out or even talk with the psychologist there. I also heard there’s a “gay lounge” in Kirckoff somewhere too to hang out. There’s a gay fraternity (dunno what they’re call), and a lesbian sorority (Gamma Ro Lamba [GRL] – hahaha, what a clever name) and various other organizations and clubs. You’d be surprised how big the LGBT community is here. (Though, I will admit, we don’t have a “Rainbow House” like UCSB, lol.)</p>
<p>There will be some people who don’t like/accept gays, but that is unavoidable at even the most liberal bastions. From what I can tell, most students are respectful when they don’t support gay rights. It’s normally non-students who are inflammatory in their opposition. (I remember one time there were these group of hardcore Christians, who might have been neo-Nazis, that were in Bruinplaza…)</p>
<p>Get some perspective here. It’s illogical to say that most christians being against gay lifestyles is indicative that they are generally lowly/unrespectable. Come on, it’s just one small part of their ideology. That kind of reasoning is way too popular–that one bad quality means the whole is bad.</p>
<p>btw, I am not christian (if that matters)</p>
<p>This really shouldn’t be a religious discussion. Whether you accept homosexuality or not should be a personal choice and should not have anything to do with being a Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, or a Satanist (but enough about the administration…).</p>
<p>^ Reality says otherwise.</p>
<p>^ +1
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