Reply #8: Still doesn't make it right. [View All]

I went to an evangelical college, and how they treated the gay and lesbian students there was disgusting. I still feel guilty that I didn't do more to fight for my friends who were hazed, vilified, and ultimately ruined in that community just because the others were afraid of them for some reason.

One friend was forced by the administration to come out to all of her friends. When she did, one of them freaked out and threatened to sue her for sexual harrassment because she'd seen her undressed in the women's dorm communal bathroom. I tried to cut her off when she came out to me, but she said that the school was randomly checking her friends (she'd had to submit a list) to see if she'd followed through. She managed to graduate, but some of her so-called friends did their best to ruin her behind her back. I didn't know about it at the time, or I would've called them on it. Disgusting.

Another friend was forced to go to "therapy" conducted by one of the school counsellors to "fix" him and make him straight. That didn't go well, and he ultimately left the school, as it was leaked to the students what he was in therapy for. You can imagine what happened to him in the men's dorm he was living in at the time.

Just because it's private doesn't mean it's off the hook. That school's administrators did the wrong thing, and they need to know that it won't be tolerated.