list of 20 most LGBT friendly, unfriendly colleges

Princeton reviews annual list is up. Some surprises.
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I hate to say it, but there are some schools that really don't shock me for being on that list. For example, Notre Dame and BYU.

I was hired to teach in the Pepperdine English department and then fired within an hour when I said I wouldn't lie if a student asked if I were gay. I wasn't going back in the closet for a temp job. LOL.

Irony #1: the chair who hired and fired me was a closeted lesbian. She was also a friend of a friend, so I decided it wasn't worth it to ruin her life by making a fuss.

Irony #2: The next semester, I got a call from the theater department and was offered a similar job. I explained what had happened a few months before and they didn't care. As long as I agreed I wouldn't mock students for Christian beliefs, they didn't care who found out I was gay.

So it may be there are islands of relative tolerance even within these hateful institutions.

Smith won't admit trans-women. I am surprised that didn't keep them off the list.

I am floored that Bob Jones and Liberty aren't on there for worst. I was offered scholarships to both. lol Sometimes I wonder who I would be now had I accepted either.

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While still pretty liberal, I was a Southern Baptist and very very active in a mega church. I only applied to religious schools. It was actually my youth minister that told me he thought a more liberal university might be a better fit for me. He was right. :)

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Updated On: 8/11/14 at 07:04 AM

Mount Holyoke DOES admit trans women-we had some in my class (nice ladies all). Yet another reason my beloved alma mater should be on that list.

Do female students still have to wear skirts while male students have to wear ties at Bob Jones? I saw that and said, "I do not want to go to a university where I can't rock the sleep pants once in a while."

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That Bob Jones sounds like where I work-I can't wear pants except on Fridays. I have had this talk with the boss who says that all women's pants look like jeans and that unless I want to sport a three piece suit (now mind you this office (I work in law) does most of its work via telephone and internet) I would be wearing skirts and dresses.

My brother went to Amherst which was part of the Five College Consortium. He said that there was an acronym that was, not only said as a joke by students at both Smith and Holyoke regarding their respective student bodies, but by students of the other schools to jokingly refer to the student body of the two all girls schools. acronym was L.U.G.S (Lesbians Until Graduation.) with that being said they are two very liberal schools and can't believe they are not on the list.
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Islander Fan-Smith is on that list, Mount Holyoke isn't (undeservedly so). Mount Holyoke is much better at fostering dialogue between the LGBT community and the straight one. Smith has a real problem because not only do they not allow trans gender women, but there is a great deal of hostility between the LGBT (it's really lesbians and I guess bis) community and the straight one on its campus-and I've witnessed it.