I haven’t really had to deal with this, as I’m in a counseling masters program. Being okay with gay is kind of a requirement of being a professional counselor. So all my professors and advisers have been non-judgey and supportive.
Good luck in your search!

Do you know any 2nd or 3rd years that are more familiar with the various professors who could at least let you know if any of them are homophobes? It’s generally been my experience that once someone has been to school long enough to get a doctorate, they are generally pretty open-minded, but obviously not 100% of the time. I don’t know if that…[Read more]

I’m a second year in a biology PhD. My advisor is pretty open-minded, as is the faculty in general – another prof in biology is openly gay – so it was not really an issue for me. At my university, graduate students go directly to work with their advisor of choice, and given that my advisor didn’t bat an eye to my alternative hairstyle and…[Read more]

thanks for your advice all! (I had an exam this week and between that/lab/teaching i’ve been virtually cut off from the internet, otherwise I would’ve said thanks earlier :P) what complicates things for me a little bit is that all the rotations I’ve done are with very, very new professors, as in I’m pretty sure all of them have been here for less…[Read more]

I have no information, except that I’m reaaally jealous, cause Georgia looks amazing!

I love Antwerp it’s so beautiful and free. You can be gay there, they’re totally cool with it. There are a few lesbian parties on there.

This is one:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/104210903486/

The other one is called cafe love I think. I was living in Gent and Belgium so I never went but I went to Girlesque in Amsterdam which is run by the…[Read more]

Thnx straddlers! Caucasus was a beautiful region!