<p>Me and my friend got into a little bit of a fight today over the amount of possible gay people at urban schools like NYU and Loyola-Chicago. I don't really think this is a problem at all, but it leads me to wonder what are the most gay friendly schools in the US, what are the least friendly, and does geography affect this. Does anyone know?</p>
<p>Most schools in CA are more accepting since CA is the most liberal state there is.</p>
<p>the coasts are probably the most accepting. CA, despite prop 8, is a good bet</p>
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<p>:rolleyes: yeah this is the least true thing ever, CA is conservative with the exception of West LA and the Bay Area.</p>
<p>the northeast and northwest will be much more tolerant</p>
<p>I might of made my statement a bit too broad, but the area I live in which is in southern cali is pretty tolerant and I live there so I know, the gays in my school are treated with decent respect aside from ridicules behind their backs from male teenagers.</p>
<p>And he’ll be with those same male teenagers at a California school.</p>
<p>Regardless of where you are or who you are, you’ll always be ridiculed by someone behind your back. Its not like West LA and the Bay Area will treat gays 100% like they do with heterosexuals anyways. Well its just up to amon_13 then.</p>
<p>Geography affects it to some extent, i.e. the South isn’t particularly accepting, as you would expect, but other than that it can be rather hit-or-miss. NYU is VERY gay-friendly, but I am not familiar with Loyola-Chicago. If you have any other specific schools you are curious about, posters can probably comment on the GLBT scene, but other than that, look for the Northeast or West coast to find the most gay-friendly schools.</p>
<p>I swear someone asks this question once a week. lol</p>
<p>Weskeyan has a Queer Studies department, Queer Resource Center, Queer Faculty, Librarians, and Staff. This is all public information on their main web site: </p>
<p>[Wesleyan</a> University: Queer Life at Wesleyan](<a href=“Welcome, Queer / Trans Life at Wesleyan - Wesleyan University”>Welcome, Queer / Trans Life at Wesleyan - Wesleyan University)</p>
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<p>Hmm it depends, I’ve heard that UT Austin is a very gay-friendly place. I think that larger cities in general are more accepting.</p>
<p>UT Austin isn’t -very- gay friendly, but it’s definitely more tolerant than most southern schools. I have a feeling that this is so because Austin’s such a crazy, wacky place and bursting full of young people, who tend to be more tolerant than elders.</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t know how much I agree about the California thing, but I live in Ohio so i’m not an expert on the subject at all.</p>
<p>Yale is very gay friendly, it’s considered the gay Ivy. I’d also say NYU, BU, most of the Ivies (with the exception of maybe Dartmouth which isn’t to say it’s not gay friendly, just not the most) and east coast LACs especially Smith, Wesleyan, Wellesley, and Hampshire.</p>
<p>Yale has the oldest and most prestigious program in the country around lesbian/gay studies, and surveys (granted, 5-6 years ago) ago suggest that the gay male population there is about three times as large as the lesbian population at Smith. On the whole, many of the elite schools in the northeast will be gay-friendly, but how far that extends to less elite schools may not be as well known.</p>
<p>In terms of percentages (as the population of Bard is miniscule), Bard has the largest amount of gay students in the country.</p>
<p>Here’s Campus Pride’s Index that lists how friendly schools are to the LGBT communities:
[LGBT-Friendly</a> Campus Climate Index - National Assessment Tool](<a href=“http://www.campusclimateindex.org/]LGBT-Friendly”>http://www.campusclimateindex.org/)</p>
<p>Princeton Review also had its list of top 20 gay friendly schools; they are redoing their lists right now; it included Swarthmore, Grinnell, Macalester, Beloit, Mt. Holyoke, Hampshire.</p>
<p>University of Illinois’s college information session video showed interviews with what appeared to be homosexual couples.</p>
<p>Beloit College is one the most tolerant places I have ever been in my life. Zero Cliquiness, Zero Racial Problems, Zero Homophobia</p>
<p>Oberlin. And it’s about as non-urban as you can get.</p>