<p>In your opinion, how is BC for alternative lifestyles aka a gay guy? I’ve heard their GLBT club is pretty big on campus but that the school administration doesn’t support the club?</p>
<p>Hi College3Bound, even though the BC administration has to follow the Catholic Church party line about homosexuality, you will find that the BC student body and faculty is super accepting, super tolerant, and people are friendly. Massachusetts is the only state to have legalized gay marriage and that kind of tolerance and acceptance is apparent on campus. One of my roommates senior year is lesbian and had a fabulous experience, dated frequently, and was a very prominant person on campus. If you have any other questions post them.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. My high school doesnt have that many out gays so I would like to go somewhere with a fair population of us.</p>
<p>This doesn't sound too good:</p>
<p>The</a> Matchbook (9-29-03)</p>
<p>Year that was from fall 2003...fall of my freshman year. Since then I witnessed 2000 students participate in a gay rights demonstration on campus, saw the formation of a great gay-straight alliance, and a department of student government formed for queer issues. i (a straight woman) also wrote my senior thesis on glbtq issues as did five other students in my graduating class. because of this interest there are (was) serious talks about starting a queer studies program because so many of the existing courses already fall into this category. If you would like a list of recommended courses on sexuality let me know!</p>
<p>Thanks for the great info. once again. Is there a fairly good amount of out gay students or just like 1 out of 100 (like my high school seems to be)?</p>
<p>I don't think gay students make daily statements about their sexual orientation so I don't know how many gay students there are at BC. That doesn't mean they are closet gays either. From my group of friends, I know of two who are gays. But I found from their choice of dating partner and not from asking them about it or they telling me. I honestly think the administration (not professors or secretaries you deal with on a daily basis) live in another era. They need to accept students' freedom to live and not try to legislate moral. I don't want to give the impression that the administrators are out there with with bibles in hands preaching to you, but they practice passive-resistance against changes that the vast majority of students want. There was a student ballot a year before I attend that declared an end to all discriminations--especially sexual one--and 80% of the student body voted in support of it. But it's the 20% conservatives that bring out the uncomfortable darker side of BC's Catholic heritage. Most of them are not bad people of homophobes, but when asked they voted against the measure, they replied because of their religion--most of them have nothing against homosexuals. The students aren't exactly taking the administration's BS lying down. I think BC is at a crossword where the majority of its students aren't going to accept the BS conservative doctrines. I think it's good time to attend this institution, it's not perfect and needs to improve. There have been protests, rallies, ballots, resolutions, etc etc, but more need to be done and more will be done to ensure everyone feels welcome at BC.</p>
<p>Gay students are welcome with open arms in the community, but make no mistake about it, BC is not San Francisco. And that's unfortunate. You will hear insensitive words from some of the students but realize that it is the nature of a being a diverse campus--you will have people who are very different from who you are. They carry their prejudices with them from high school, but college is about change and improvement, and hopefully after four years of education those folks will see thing in different light and live a life of tolerance and respect. So if you choose to attend BC, you will meet many accepting and loving people, you meet a few hateful SOBs, you will encounter administrators who adhere to some strict doctrines, and you will also meet some incredibly liberal Jesuits who have spent their lives fighting for open acceptance within the church. I don't think your experience at BC will be subtracted or diminished in anyway, it might not be absolutely perfect, but when you look back you will have a pretty good four years.</p>
<p>I'm saying knowing that many conservative parents and students might not like it and will not consider BC for themselves or their children, or also, many gay students might be turned off by it and choose not to attend. I know I wouldn't want to go to an institution that wouldn't welcome me, but it's not fair to judge the belief of a whole on the action of a few. It is also the duty of the whole to stand up for the individual when he or she experiences hate from the few.</p>
<p>Great informative post! Thanks. Some of your thoughts are comforting and others are...well just truthful and I'd like to help change BC for the better. I attended a BC EA reception at an alumnis house and I truly believe it's the school for me.</p>
<p>I think that just by being in Boston, which I believe to be a really liberal, accepting town you'll have many opportunities to support the kind of lifestyle you want, whatever that may be. Boston is a really great city in the sense that it's really open and go-with-the-flow so you'll find lots of people and places where you can share your views with people who think and feel the same way you do-- regardless of what exactally it is you feel and think. There's something for everyone on campus, AKA Boston.</p>