From the article: Colleges With Gender Neutral Housing
A greater number of colleges and universities are offering gender neutral housing for their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. What was your college dorm experience like as an open or not yet revealed LGBT student? Share Your Experience
Assume your sexual partner is HIV+
- The article said you need to know the HIV status of the other person. Not true. You can't prove a negative. This means you always assume the other person is positive, whether it is straight or gay sex. As a bonus, this helps protect you against other sexually-transmitted diseases, such as herpes.
- —rrchapman
So happy my friend came out to me
- In college I made a great guy friend who I spent a ton of time with. There was obviously no spark between us, so sexuality didn't come up. One day we were sketching in the hallway (we were both art students) and he casually mentioned--after months spending time together--that he was gay. He said it in a sort of off-hand way. This was years ago, before gayness was so out in the open and all over pop culture, so I didn't know much about gay culture or what that meant. My response was--"How do you know..." and he finished me sentence. "What, that I'm gay?" And I said, "Oh no, I imagine that's just something you know. How do you know who ELSE is gay?" And he cracked up. In retrospect it was such a naive question. But he was relieved that not only didn't I care, I was very curious about gay lifestyle, and helped him come out of the closet week by week. We're still close. He's my daughter's godfather, and we've both counseled one another through many loves lost.
- —Guest Friend of the gays :)
My years in College as closeted gay
- Well College was supposed to be fun and full of adventure, and to the extent of intellect and other forms of life are concerned it was fun and adventurous, it is just that my romantic or should I say gay life was unbelievably hard. In the first place sharing a dorm with straights who don't have any idea, that a naked man attracts me by it self was too hard, let alone I have to cover and pertained I like girls. Through out college, I never dared to go to the bars with my friends and drink more than a beer or two, because I was scared the beer would bring out the suppressed real me. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining and I don’t hate the fact that I have spend fours years of college with my st8 friends, it is just that I wish there was a dorm where I can get to talk about the cute boy I saw in the library or that nice looking exchange student from Pakistan… you know gay kind of talks…. Anyhow, glad to hear about the neutral dorm thing,TW
- —Guest Tegibabi
