Gay Student Considering Pitt

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pittsburgh
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<p>Hey CC, </p>

<p>I'm an openly gay student considering attending Pitt. I am wondering if Pitt is an accepting campus when it comes to gay/lesbian students, and are there a lot of them there? Also, does Pitt have any organizations for these students? </p>

<p>I also have the option of attending Duquesne (I want to attend a school in the Pittsburgh area as I have a lot of family over there), but I don't really know about going there after reading things like [url=<a href="http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A51023%5Dthis%5B/url"&gt;http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A51023]this[/url&lt;/a&gt;]. Can anyone here shed some light on that school as well? </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Son has a straight female friend (first year at Pitt) that has met many new openly gay male friends this year there.</p>

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<p>Pitt has the Rainbow Alliance ([Rainbow</a> Alliance ? Home](<a href=“http://www.pitt.edu/~sorc/rainbow/]Rainbow”>http://www.pitt.edu/~sorc/rainbow/)) but they don’t seem to “advertise” themselves on campus. I remember going to an event during orientation where all the Pitt clubs set up tables to introduce freshmen to them and I couldn’t find a LBGTQ club. It was later that I did some internet searching that I was able to find out Pitt had such an organization. It looks like they are pretty active though, from their Facebook group.</p>

<p>Pittsburgh is a city, and I’m pretty sure most populous cities in general are accepting of gays. Duquesne has an affiliation so it looks like the administration behaves as such.</p>

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<p>Rainbow allowance gets huge funding. lgbt is fairly organized at Pitt.</p>