Gay in the hard sciences? (no pun intended)

[Loren Booda]

My Yale alum magazine reports the Yale is considered to be "Gay Ivy," i.e., "most hospitable to gay students." (I would sometimes think there "Was that a homosexual or basher who just muttered 'gay'?")

Nevertheless, now I'm having a great time with my girlfriend and working for an "open" organization with a rainbow of personalities.

 

[adrian87]

My Yale alum magazine reports the Yale is considered to be "Gay Ivy," i.e., "most hospitable to gay students." (I would sometimes think there "Was that a homosexual or basher who just muttered 'gay'?")

Nevertheless, now I'm having a great time with my girlfriend and working for an "open" organization with a rainbow of personalities.

I'm not sure how a university could win the contest of "most hospitable to gays". Do they give them a separate bathroom for hook-ups? ;)

I would think the only important thing when it comes to hospitality is the attitude of the people on campus. It's fine to have a lot of people who aren't comfortable with LGBT people, as long as they're accepting of them and aren't actively protesting their existence (or right to be left alone in general). I think that's the case here in Idaho - most people aren't hot on the idea of imagining gay sex of their gender, but they don't have a problem with knowing a friend or two of theirs is gay.