<p>I've heard some not so good things about about the general attitude towards gay students. How's the LGBT community at WashU?</p>
<p>I haven’t heard anything bad about it. RyanMK might be able to offer some insight.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s necessarily bad; there’s PRIDE, Safezones, etc., and I can’t really think of any anti-gay sentiment around campus. But considering how high a percent of people here are LGBT(QIA), lots of people are still in the closet. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing to take a while before labeling yourself, but I personally find it a little bit strange.</p>
<p>Then again, some of it may just be how low-key LGBT is around here; it’s definitely not in your face, which is a good thing, really. I think the worst sort of LGBT culture is the kind where people feel compelled to shove themselves into flamboyant stereotypes to have a place, and that’s definitely not how it is at WashU.</p>
<p>From September 8, 2011:</p>
<p>[Campus</a> earns high marks in LGBT friendliness | Student Life](<a href=“http://www.studlife.com/news/2011/09/08/campus-earns-high-marks-in-lgbt-friendliness/]Campus”>Campus earns high marks in LGBT friendliness - Student Life)</p>
<p>nitwitoddment, in the very last sentence of your post, replace the “LGBT” with any of the following words: latino, african american, jewish, mentally ■■■■■■■■, disabled, deaf, asian… and see how it sounds. While I’m sure you didn’t have any overt discriminatory intent when you wrote it, still, it was really hetero-normative and the passive, inadvertent undertones your post gave off would probably turn off some people. </p>
<p>otherwise, I’d agree with the comments said so far, about Wash U being a very welcoming, laid-back place for LGBT kids. I’m surprised by the large amount of LGBTers here, with some being very involved in the Pride Alliance/etc groups, but most probably not.</p>
<p>vbball90- I’m gay and I agree with his statement. It sounded to me that he wasn’t saying that flamboyance is bad, but rather it’s bad when gay people feel like they HAVE to be flamboyant against their will in order to fit in.</p>