On Learning to Be Alone
You know, sometimes I just wake up, look around at my apartment, and think, “god damn it I miss living with 9 other people.”
More Visible Than Purple: LGBT Kids and the Road to Safer Schools
I wish we were all in a room so I could say, “If you are LGBTQI, could you please raise your hand if you believe you had room to develop your identity at your preK-12 schools? Your full identity?”
You Need to Watch “Default: The Student Debt Documentary”
Katrina’s Team Pick: “The conversation about student debt is a conversation that everyone who’s in school should be having.”
You Need Help: Your College Roommates Are Homophobic Assholes
What if you get to college and your roommates are really homophobic?
OPEN THREAD: Back to School!
35% of you are going back to college or starting a new college right this very minute! How’s that working out for you? Have you made out with a cute girl? Cried in your dorm? All feelings welcome! We’ll be here all week!
Your College Tuition Is Too Damn High
At this rate, banks and the government will own everyone’s first born children.
Elmhurst College Hopes To Be Enriched By Gay Students, Give Them Money
Elmhurst College in Illinois has become the first school to ask (optionally) about your sexual orientation on their admissions application. How does that make you feel?
The Lesbian Insider’s Guide to 40 LGBT-Friendly College Campuses
Queer girls from 40 different schools give you the uncensored scoop on what it feels like for a gay lady on their campus — from hookup culture to dyke parties to activism and academics.
You Need Help: Lesbian Back-To-School Edition
So you’re going to your first semester at college! Do you have to come out to your roommate?
Lily’s College Lesbianage #14: Libraries, Gay Marriage and Therapy
Unaccomplished Goal For Summer #4: Write a screenplay about a 20 year-old girl who realizes that her life long dream of becoming a child/teen star will never be realized. Call it “That’s Not So Raven”.
Hey Queer College Girls, We Need You and Your Input
We need your testimony for a very important post we are working on about queer life at college.
Ontario Schools Must Allow Gay Support Groups But Don’t Go Starting a GSA Now
Ontario has pledged that Ontario students will have gay support groups if they want them. Catholic schools still aren’t sure GSAs fall into that category. In other news, rainbows are still banned.
Lily’s College Lesbianage #13: I Have Some Issues With Growing Up
“Here is the thing about my tonsil doctor: He doubles as a plastic surgeon because I am from Palm Beach and that’s just how we roll down there.”
Sarah’s Team Pick: The Best Graduation Speeches
Amy Poehler is a perfect human.
100 Michigan Law Students Walk Out Of Graduation: LGBTs Winning Hearts and Minds
This weekend, one third of Michigan Law’s 2011 class walked out of their own graduation ceremony to protest an anti-gay graduation speaker. Lucky for us, Sarah was there for the whole thing.
It’s Hard Out Here For Out Gay Students At Messiah College
We don’t exclude homosexuals, we make a distinction between homosexual orientation and homosexual behavior… we make it clear though what the lifestyle expectations are.”
OneWheaton: Christian College Alums Unite to Keep Gay Students Sane
“If you are a student and this is part of your story, your sexual identity is not a tragic sign of the sinful nature of the world. You are not tragic. “
Lily’s College Lesbianage #12: Quarter-Life Crisis and Red Carpet Ricky Martin
Lily has done a lot since the last time she wrote this article: she turned 20, changed her major, pretended to be Mariah Carey, attended the red carpet of the GLAAD Media Awards, and formed a Mandy Moore cover-band (kind-of).
Lily’s College Lesbianage #11: Life Plans, Cuddling – A Jedi Craves Not These Things
“Also, my brother has a haircut that makes him look like a lesbian. He looks like a lesbian who looks like Justin Bieber. It’s pretty exciting.”
Science For A Brighter Future: Research On Bullying and Gay Teen Suicide
We all know that bullies and homophobes, from the locker room to the Senate, are part of why gay and lesbian teens (and adults) have such ridiculously high rates of suicide. But when a panel of 26 leading researchers back it up, we may finally be on the way to changing things.