Im a femme gay female who is interested in other femmes (I am open to dating someone bisexual etc) I was just wondering what kind of presence the LGBTQ+ community has at JHU? Although of course dating life isn’t the most important thing in college, as a femme lesbian into other femmes, would I have a lot of options? Also is it an open minded environment? In short…how gay is hopkins?
I wouldn’t say it’s a huge scene, but there are definitely some LGBT people at Hopkins. You’ll also find a big scene at nearby MICA.
(I’m a current LGBT- identifying student.)
The scene at Hopkins isn’t huge, but it is present. There are some LGBTQ+ students who simply live their lives as members of the community, but don’t involve themselves in gay campus culture. But there are LGBTQ+ students who devote a lot of time to the Hopkins gay community, and make it a very visible part of their student life. The main student organization is the Diverse Gender and Sexualities Alliance (DSAGA), which has open meetings once a week and often various other events throughout the week as well. There’s also a group called oSTEM (Out in STEM), but I know less about them because I’m not a STEM student 
Even though the community isn’t as large as at other schools, Hopkins makes quite an effort to show its open mindedness. There is mandatory Diversity and Inclusion Training that every freshman goes through, Orientation events that cover accepting others, gender- neutral bathrooms in residence halls, etc. I’ve never witnessed a homophobic incident, or heard about one on campus.
Thanks sm!! Two more questions: Is Greek life LGBTQ+ friendly? And also - do Peabody students do orientation/graduation and other events at the homewood campus? I’m worried that if I get into Peabody (im interested in music composition and neuroscience) I won’t make friends on the homewood campus and it’s important to me that I participate in the larger university community
Of the 5 sororities on campus, I know for a fact that 2 are LGBTQ+ friendly, as I know for a fact that there are out people in them. But I really just don’t know much about the other 3, and don’t want to make it seem like they are or aren’t a certain way. I’m in a sorority and know at least a handful of others in mine who are queer identifying, which was a huge relief for me. I would imagine that the others are accepting too, but don’t really know them.
I really can’t speak to the Peabody question, sorry! I do know that some Peabody students are involved in Hopkins Greek life, and possibly other clubs as well, but I’m not really sure.
Thanks so much! That’s really helpful. Which ones are the LGBTQ+ friendly ones?
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But just as a general note about Greek life: even though many frats and sororities have general stereotypes about what they’re like, chapters across the country can be very, very different from one another depending on the campus. So what could be considered a party sorority at one school may be very low-key at another school. I only say this because I hadn’t really realized before coming to college- I kind of assumed that all sororities were basically the same deal. They’re really not, though, at least in my experience here.