COURTESY OF WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY LGBTQ CENTER
Voices
Princeton Review carries. Given
the immense deluge of information that we consume on a regular
basis, a sensationalized “least LGBT-friendly colleges in America”
list is just waiting to be digested.
This list offends me. It purports to be a helpful guide for
prospective college students and
their parents, but I believe that
a more fitting title for this list
would be, “Are You LGBT? Don›t
Even Consider Going To These
Colleges.” It amounts to self-segregation. As a gay man living in a
world where LGBT rights are being fought for and earned literally
on a day-to-day basis, I believe
that poisonous and misguided
TRÉ
EASTON
HUFFINGTON
08.25.13
It’s hard to challenge
the claims of an organization
with the considerable heft
that, for whatever reason,
The Princeton Review carries.”
information like this ranking sets
back the movement for equality
even more than a ballot measure
or asinine court ruling. Its very
premise — assigning schools the
moniker of “LGBT-unfriendly,”
which only functions to ensure
that LGBT students will never
venture to these places — is offensive. The movement won’t
be finished until every sector
of every part of this country is
“friendly” to each and every citizen of this country.
We should be asking whether
Students
from WFU’s
Gay-Straight
Student
Alliance and
ZSR Library
celebra FP