<p>how is the gay life at tulane?! and in new orleans in general? i hear its a pretting accepting campus...</p>
<p>The gay life is good at tulane. It's not great. But it's all relative. </p>
<p>Gay people are completely accepted and I think have a good social scene. But they are less integrated into the general population than I think at some other places. It's like, oh, they're gay, that's cool...but...THEY'RE GAY. It's more of an issue there than some places. Not a bad or derogatory issue, but an issue none the less. Like something that stands out about you more than it would at some other places. This is the impression that I got. </p>
<p>As far as New Orleans itself, it has a very, very thriving gay scene. I think a little more so for men than women (I'm making this determination soley from the presence of gay bars on Bourbon, so it's not very reliable. lol). I can't attest to how accepted gays are in the general poplulation of New Orleans. I think they are, because New Orleans is quite Cosmopolitan. But remember, it is the south and there still is a large conservative contingent. Southern Decadence (the "gay mardis gras") is very cool, but sometimes visited by protestors. </p>
<p>Bottom line? No one will discriminate against you for being gay and you'll have a good time. It's a perfectly fine place to go if you're gay. </p>
<p>But I do feel like some places are more accepting. So it all depends on how important this issue is to you. My current school (I transferred out of Tulane, but not at all because of the gay thing) is more accepting in terms of how integrated gay people are into campus. For one, there's a lot more queer people. Or at least more out people. Two, there are more queer groups. And three, it's just a lot more "normal" to be gay here than it was at Tulane. But I think my school is kind of the exception, at the very top of the gay acceptance spectrum. I also play rugby, on perhaps the most queer rugby team in the country (lol -- I just don't see how you could get more queer than us!), and am in an co-ed frat nick named Zeta Delta BI (instead of Zeta Delta Xi) so my perspective is surely scewed by that. I was surely MUCH less involved in the gay scene at Tulane than I am here. PM me we can talk more if you'd like (I'm not mentioning which school at this moment on this post in general dialogue as to at least slightly, minutely, decrease how annoying I am. I doubt I have succeeded). </p>
<p>Note: I'm using the word queer not in a derogatory sense, but as the modern blanket term for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transexual, and transgender.</p>
<p>It's nice to know that there is at least one other gay guy considering Tulane for fall '08. I couldn't say the same for the rest of the schools on my list.. Great description, ClaySoul; very informative, thanks.</p>
<p>Hey King, I'm from Corvallis!!</p>
<p>Can you Portland people send a PM to give us any solid info about a GOOD dog daycare we can use while at Reed next summer doing a mathcamp (us, not the dog)?</p>
<p>To the OP, sorry to get off-topic.</p>
<p>haha ***; so random...</p>
<p>what? i'm confused. why will your dog be with you in portland?</p>
<p>We live in an RV and she lives with us no matter what we're doing.</p>
<p>(So sorry, OP!)</p>
<p>Ah gotcha. That's actually pretty darn cool. </p>
<p>But I don't know anyone :) </p>
<p>I know a really great individual person who could do it for you. But I don't know of any like "doggy daycare" programs</p>
<p>K. I'm going to go to PM and get off this poor guy's thread.</p>
<p>lol........</p>
<p>caliboi:</p>
<p>You may want to do a search for another thread that was posted awhile back re this same topic. I remember it because I posted on it since my S ended up with a roommate who came out while at Tulane. (He and S are good friends to this day).</p>
<p>Anyway, it may provide a little more insight to your question.</p>
<p>i haven't met more than one or two gay people here (besides myself) and it depresses me b/c i want to like date...SO it's very difficult. it's tough but i do know they're here and trust me, i'm with you! i'm wondering the same Q.</p>
<p>I don't know how to post a link properly, but this is the thread I was referring to. Check it out.</p>
<p>Haha, Claysoul, I love your description of Brown; I'd love to go to Brown because of their awesome (and totally accepted) gay community. I might apply, as long as they have an International Relations major.
See if I have a chance-
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=386274%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=386274</a></p>
<p>Corvallis, huh? Haha, I'll bet you were trying to get as far away from Oregon State as possible.</p>
<p>Yeah, wasn't really feelin the whole stay in my back yard vibe. We do have an international relations major -- with three different focuses!</p>
<p>hi claysoul! I am definitely ****ed off that nobody is out here X_x. UGH lol.</p>
<p>curious -- do you find that more people are gay and not out, or just not gay?</p>
<p>for me? if it's directed towards me, i'm going to say that i can sense there is a small amount of guys who are not out and probably also won't be for a good time yet. Still feeing the ground. But, besides the potentials and the already out ones, the gay population at tulane is just SO small.</p>
<p>Jeremybeach, my son is a junior at tulane and the info on this topic was from his 2nd semester freshman time frame (however, first semester actually at Tulane because he was a Katrina evacuee). So this is somewhat "old" news.</p>
<p>Anyway, his observation was that there were LOTS of gay guys there. His roommate came out that semester so it could be that he was around more than he would have been otherwise. His roommate was also a popular, very friendly social guy so that could have been part of it too. As it turns out, S has no homophobic issues, so he didn't have a problem with it at all. It was merely observation on his part. He reported that very few people he knew seemed bothered by it either.</p>
<p>It's still very early in your experience....aren't you a 1st semester freshman?
Give yourself some time to (in my son's words) "find your people".</p>
<p>Tulane may be lacking in some things but diversity and open mindedness aren't among them.</p>
<p>PS S's view was probably also colored by the fact that he attended a huge state school for his Katrina semester where homophobia is much more common.</p>