<p>Hi, i’m interested in applying to Alabama, but im worried about being discriminated against for being gay. I havent necessarily heard anything bad about the school in regards to being harassed for being gay, I think i’m just worried because it’s in the bible belt.</p>
<p>How is the LGBTQ community there? Is homosexuality generally accepted?</p>
<p>This probably won’t be helpful, but when I toured and met with the debate coach, he had a rainbow sticker on his office door that said “Tolerance Zone” or something of the sort.</p>
<p>Bama has a popular student group called Spectrum.</p>
<p>[Spectrum:</a> LGBTQA Community @ University of Alabama](<a href=“http://spectrum.ua.edu/]Spectrum:”>http://spectrum.ua.edu/)</p>
<p>Tuscaloosa and Birmingham (hour away) have long had somewhat active gay communities. Alabama is not the best place to be gay, but Tuscaloosa is probably one of the best places to be gay in the state. I know for a fact that there are a good number of gays among UA faculty. I recommend visiting gay social sites and asking the guys and gals who live there what life is like for them.</p>
<p>I’m a lesbian born and raised in AL and I went to college out of state for this very reason–however, I have plenty of gay friends who stayed behind, and I’d say their love lives were actually more active than mine in college and they enjoyed relative freedom in their little liberal(ish) pocket. :P</p>