I liked the vote-with-your-wallet comment. Continuing in that direction, how’zabout we convince the fundies to remove every single computer from campus – seeing as how most modern computing technology derives from work by the famously gay Alan Turing. Let’s see how much edumacation happens THEN.

I had a lot of friends and was active in many groups. How in the world are people going to ‘accept’ us when we hide in our little safe havens? I am all for differences, but sometimes diversity (which means to divide) goes too far and I feel that this will damage these gay and lesbian students more than it will help them. Just being yourself around the mainstream is the best form of education that anyone can have. I 100% guarantee that in my professional life, I have changed the minds of many many people regarding what ‘gay’ is supposed to be and what it really is. They have this predetermined idea about it, and then.. they meet me and say.. “hum…. Well Kyle is gay… he is normal, the only thing really different is that he has a boyfriend. He wants the same things in life as I do”… and walla.. people minds are changed without them really realizing it. This is the best way of ‘demanding rights’ because it is done subtly and not by providing separate living quarters.. because all this will do is confirm that being gay is a big deal and it deserves special attention. The less of a deal you make it… the less of a deal it is to people.

Nothing in life comes easy. If you figure out how to persevere in the face of ‘adversity’ at a young age, then you will be all the more prepared to face life in the future.. especially when there isn’t a gay lesbian neighborhood to hide behind.

We went ahead and showed the movie with a short statement to the audience to the effect that they would not be seeing the entire film, thanks to the local censor board (comprised of the widows of police and firemen killed in the line of duty). When the offending sequence came on, I simply cupped the projector lens.

Ironically, the audience could hear the poor maiden’s cries of pain throughout, creating in their minds images far more graphic than what was occluded.

The film in question? Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring. A further irony was presented a year later when the local PBS TV station ran the film in its entirely for all of Fort Worth to see.

A campus dormitory for LGBT students? Ha! Maybe when their Christian hell freezes over.

I also think these special housing arrangements are a bad idea because it’s voluntary segregation. College is supposed to be a time to open yourself to new and different ideas and people than what you’re used to, so students should make an effort to get to know their peers, gay or straight.