Gay students at BC

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<p>Hi everyone, I'm new here. I know this question has been asked before but I feel like there were too many contradictory answers. So from anyone who has had experience with Boston College, how are the gay students treated there? Is there an active LBGT community? Are gay students accepted? Or is there air of don't ask don't tell or are gay students harassed, picked on, etc? </p>

<p>I have recently visited BC and I really liked it and wish to apply but I'm gay and so I'm a bit worried. </p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>Try Googling.
This 2003 article is what I found in a quick Google. Also check the Boston College site to see if there's a gay/straight student alliance now. If so, contact the officers to get their take on what the climate there is like for gays.</p>

<p>"Boston College to consider gay/straight student alliance
By CHUCK COLBERT
Chestnut Hill, Mass.</p>

<p>It’s not yet a done deal. But the week of Feb. 10, when representatives of the university’s student government were scheduled to meet with a school vice president, Boston College moved one step closer to formal recognition of a support and educational organization addressing gay students’ needs.</p>

<p>Some details are still to be worked out with university officials, Adam Baker, student body president and a senior from Middlebury, Conn., told NCR. Among the fine points still to be decided are the organization’s name, “the role faculty will play, and other details of governance,” Baker said.</p>

<p>“The student body is very, very supportive of this effort,” said Baker, who praised the university’s president, Jesuit Fr. William P. Leahy, who he said took to heart the student government’s proposal and student body support. “One of the main things we did was collect signatures on a petition in support of the alliance,” he said. “We collected more than 1,000 in a week.”</p>

<p>The proposal and ongoing dialogue relies in part on the language of human rights and dignity, expressed most recently in “Always Our Children,” a pastoral statement issued in 1997 by a committee of U.S. bishops and addressed to the parents of gay children.</p>

<p>Some faculty and other supportive alumni also point to next month’s 40th anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s landmark encyclical Pacem in Terris (“Peace on Earth”). That document, with its Catholic social teaching about the inherent dignity of the human person, along with its expectation that all individuals’ rights merit respect, is yet another way, they recommend, to situate the gay/straight alliance’s approval within the church’s rich tradition and progression of full human rights for all...."</p>

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<p>Article published last November on this very topic: Keeping</a> the Faith :: GLBT students face adversity at Catholic colleges :: EDGE Boston</p>