<p>I was recently accepted to Vandy and while I am strongly considering, I'm considerably worried about going to vandy and being not straight. I definitely want to be a part of the social scene and I do think I will want to party and participate while at vanderbilt. Can anyone comment on the "gay scene" at vandy and how gay students are treated on campus?</p>
<p>Hey there. 
I’m bisexual and my next-door neighbor is gay, and I brought up your post with him and asked his opinion, so I’ll share both of ours.</p>
<p>As far as I’m concerned, the social scene here for the less-than-hetero is really dismal. There is the office of LGBTQI life, and I know several people who are quite happy with the friends they’ve found there, but I have never felt a strong sense of… welcoming towards gay students here. There is a gay interest fraternity on campus that colonized in the last year, so that might be a help. There’s not a lot of information here, but here’s the URL: [Delta</a> Lambda Phi | Greek Life at Vanderbilt University](<a href=“http://www.vanderbilt.edu/greek_life/dlp.php]Delta”>http://www.vanderbilt.edu/greek_life/dlp.php). That might connect you with some of the officers there who could help you out.</p>
<p>My next-door neighbor has expressed to me numerous times that there really is no gay scene unless you are flamboyant and in DLP (the fraternity). He is out, but quiet, about his sexuality, and has had a lot of difficulty finding a relationship. He has never felt uncomfortable partying with his friends (mostly straight), and he has never expressed to me that he has felt isolated, but he complains a lot that he will never find a boyfriend on this campus. </p>
<p>So, I guess, in a nutshell… it’s easier to be a gay man than a lesbian on this campus; you probably won’t have to deal with hate crimes here, but don’t expect to be super welcomed; and you might want to look at other schools if you wish to date much during college. Party on – it’s the Vandy way.</p>
<p>Interesting, yeah like, I’m not into queens or the whole drama thing, so I don’t know if a gay frat would be my thing. Do you have any opinions on nashville for LGBT students?</p>
<p>I know Nashville has at least a couple of gay clubs that are fun. I have a boyfriend, so I’m not in the market for a girl and I haven’t been out much, but I can talk to my neighbor and see what he says. I feel as though Nashville is more gay-friendly than Vanderbilt, although you <em>are</em> in the South. This ain’t San Francisco or NYC (ah, to be in Chelsea… haha).</p>
<p>But at least it’s not Greenville, SC, where we encountered people wearing sandwich boards denouncing homosexuals on several occassions while visiting downtown. (Maybe the Bob Jones influence?) Which is NOT to say that GREENVILLE is “like that;” just the individuals we saw. I just had never seen that anywhere else, so it stuck with me.</p>