In my experience the BJ is not necessary; just letting them know you're a fellow 'mo sees an instant bump in grades. One might postulate that the same solidarity doesn't come from lesbian profs, because women in high positions tend to feel competitive rather than cooperative (there are some studies on this).

"The sex factor. On campuses with more male professors, there are more opportunities for gay students to engage in Grade-A-for-a-BJ!"

That's an idiotic statement. It implies that only male professors use their students for sexual gratification, and then only want the contact from male students. I think what Alex said is probably closer.. just the affinity of people. I think that also, and this is changing quickly, a lot of young gay people live in their books, if you know what I mean. If you live in some bumblescum little town, academia is a wonderful way to feel less crazy and isolated. (if all the other boys are out sniffing paint thinner and shooting things). Also, for the first few years of college you aren't old enough to go to clubs.. so there is less to do on that front. I hate the assumption that gay students are doing well because they are willing to suck dick. maybe there are OTHER attributes of these kids that lets them do well?

Also– maybe the study needs to be done in reverse: why do hetty students do poorly?

So gays perform better than their hetero counterparts but lesbians fare worse than theirs?

Obviously the answer is dick. The two groups who embrace it (gays and straight girls) are doing better than everyone else. Maybe there's something in semen that's good for the brain. Keeps you focused.

And, of course:
• The sex factor. On campuses with more male professors, there are more opportunities for gay students to engage in Grade-A-for-a-BJ!

This is not in the original study. This lame joke was added by QUEERTY. I think it shows some rather bad editing practices, adding in a line like that in a bulleted list. Confusing to say the least (is it a joke? or not? hard to tell because it looks the same as the text above it and it isn't funny). I had to go to the original study and read to see if the authors really thought gay students were fucking their profs more often for better grades.

I doubt Ja phy Gr ant* would have made such a bad editing decision.

This blog is circling the drain.

*(sorry for putting the spaces in J's name, but if you spell it correctly, QUEERTY holds up the post in moderation. NICE).

@Michael W.: OMG, LOL, sound logic to me! Great point, I agree.

Gee, maybe they see education as important because many come from anti-gay small towns and know that a degree can get them opportunities in a bigger city.

Another reason could be that the gays figure out earlier in their lives that good grades would be their ticket out of the stifling environment they are living in. Isolation from peers could be another reason–no one to talk to and nothing else to do. Most gays don't participate or are ridiculed when they try to join sports activities, so less extra-curricular activities and less time spent in practice and what-not. Or, some them could just have a higher IQ and NOT because they are gay! Because one chat with any of the strung out queens in the gay clubs will throw a bucket of cold water at the face of this theory.

I was one of them.

And that is exactly why I love college.

Gay guys who are aware of their sexual orientation during their college years and self-confident enough to report it to a survey researcher probably have their act together pretty well and therefore measure a bit better academically.

Yeah, WTF with the BJ comment? If that were true, wouldn't bi-girls (and bi-guys) fare best because they could have sex with all of their professors? C'mon, keep it real, Queerty. Dumb joke.

I would sure get better grades just because I could play with that group in the picture after class.

There could be different factors: (1) it only takes a few minutes to hunker down with a guy in the bushes, whereas chasing pussy is a full time occupation with less predictable rewards.
(2) Gay guys are aware of the importance of achievment in a world in which they have are discriminated against, like any minority. I bet you'd find that Chinese students do even better.

The BJ with profs factor seems to be pure B.S. : with the competition now in academia, people aren't likely to risk thier jobs. There are women profs who might want PB's (pussy bruch) just as much from god knows who.

I agree with whoever said that there's greater pressure on gay men to succeed so that they aren't dependent on, say, bigoted family; or the perception of a family response when they do, in fact, leave the closet. There's a greater fear and thus incentive to become financially independent because of the perception driven by real bigotry that if you fuck up once, you've thrown away your chance of living an authentic life.

Then again, gay men could be more intelligent, on average…but that's awfully romantic in light of being, say, disowned as a result of homophobia.

I'd be interested to see how transgender people in college do, too. The problem is that they usually don't transition at that age, so a representative set may be precluded by that factor.

Lets not even pretend that gay men are sucking their way to top grades. That might happen, but it doesn't happen often enough to explain a 2% jump. The truth is that gay men are just more open and are often better communicators. Honestly, getting through college had nothing to do with working hard or studying hard (hell I hardly even studied). It had to do with getting to know your professors and not being afraid to speak out in the classroom setting. Thinking about it reasonably, if the professor knows you on a first name basis they are much more likely to assist you in increasing your grade than if they have no clue who you are. Also, there is a sociological factor that enters into it where you have to examine the fact that being out with your family might not have you on the best terms with them. I believe that a lot more gay men are looking at a make or break college experience as they pay for their own college to improve their own lives where as straight men and women are more likely to have mommy and daddy not only paying for their college but also their failures.

I remember I had a hot teacher and this hot guy in the class. I use to want to have a 3 some with them. So the student became my study partner and we ended up hooking up like twice! I flirted with the teacher and even got him hard once. but I got an A+ in the class. I was his fav student. I was attentive and made it to class every week to see both! what a semester. it was my best year academically! So fantasizing made me work harder lol I said hard! and gave me a good grade to bounce my GPA to 3.8!

I think the secret to that scenario is to do the studying thing part in public, like the library. I always had this problem of being really tense and needing a good backrub before a study session. Let's just say the experience ended up really sucking.

My motivation in college was that I was paying for it and needed an education in order to have a better job. My family was blue collar and struggling. They didn't accept my sexuality. To get away from them and have a life I had to do well in college.

Plus I was paying for it all myself.

I question these statistics. The study did say it was the first of it's kind but it seems heavily tilted towards gay males than females.

These types of studies are based upon those who participate and again I question the results.

Love that top photo… Wish my college days looked like that!

My college days were much like that.
I was in a frat. and lived in the house. We did the circle jerk thing. we showered together. we dry humped eachother. I had fun cause when they got drunk and didn't get laid they ended up in my room to jerk off or get sucked off. or experiment and the next day act like nothing happened. My college years were the best ever sexual. I had a wet dream college exp. I was not out but guys would always flock to me. I slept over and shit happened. they got drunk shit happened. they got horny and shit happened. We also use to fuck girls in front of eachother one fucking the other jerking off. I tell people my stories and they are like what school did you go to! lol I just had the right people. Now most are married and I've been to or in the weddings. Saying to myself if you only knew what we did before he met you! lol

Kudos to the gay men for representing!

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Keep studying gay men. You are doing the right thing. Gay men (and lesbians) who have degrees are more likely to be in a relationship. So have a degree not only boosts your job outlook it also boosts your relationship outlook.

Now if we can just get more gay kids to stay in high school and graduate so they can actually go on to college.

Too bad this isn't true for me :( I'm a terrible student. I guess I must really like vag

@Daniel: I suspect the ones who make it through high school alive to graduate have already learned to apply whatever skills they have toward survival. So they are better equipped to function in college, where the ability to learn is valued (much moreso than in high school).

From my personal experience, my GPA was much higher after I could acknowledge I was gay, because those early years of sexual confusion and discovery were very distracting.

"Christopher Carpenter, noting gays were 1.41 times more likely to say their academic work was important".

ONLY 1.41 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO SAY THAT?

"Gay men also spend 40 to 50 percent more time doing volunteer work or participating in student organizations,"

MOST LIKELY WORKING ON SOME "GAY" ORIENTED SUBJECT. WHO CARES?

"On campuses with more male professors, there are more opportunities for gay students to engage in Grade-A-for-a-BJ!"

SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT GAY STUDENTS PIMP OUT THEIR SERVICES TO GET AN A GRADE FROM PROFESSORS. THAT'S SICK.

ALL THAT SAID NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

THERE'S NO MYSTERY TO THE MADNESS – GAYS ARE SICK.

ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY MAN AND HETERO MAN IS THE FACT THAT THE GAY MAN HAS TO ADVERTISE HOW GAY HE IS 24 HOURS A DAY.

SHUT UP ALREADY ABOUT YOUR SEXUALITY THERE'S NOTHING PARTICULARLY SPECIAL ABOUT ANY OF YOU.

YOU'RE ALL SICK!

@Miss. Kitty: @Miss. Kitty: Ms kitty needs to go lick her own twat! and if it's a guy posing as a girl cause he is not man enough to come out of the closet then you should go suck a dick! lol Do you think you words matter here. lol

"ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY MAN AND HETERO MAN IS THE FACT THAT THE GAY MAN HAS TO ADVERTISE HOW GAY HE IS 24 HOURS A DAY."

I could see you didn't do well in college if you made it that far. Read your sentence again and see if it made sense? Lose the hate reflect on what you read and be and intelligent biggit. So what you are saying is that all men are gay. And only some of them choose to be gay 24 hours and the rest only in bed they are gay. lol

Without us gays you wouldn't be wearing what you are wearing right now. You wouldn't have all the fab things in your life.

@ I Pliss:

No I meant exactly what I said.

THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GAY GUY AND A HETERO GUY!

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT.

THE GAY GUY HAS TO ADVERTISE HIS GAYNESS 24 HOURS A DAY TO REMIND HIMSELF HE'S GAY.

THE STRAIGHT GUY DOESN'T NEED TO REMIND HIMSELF CONSTANTLY BY SELF DESCRIPTION THAT HE'S A HETEROSEXUAL, BUT A GAY GUY DOES.

BECAUSE YOU'RE ALL ABNORMAL SEXUAL DEVIANTS!

Are you Mormon? Deviant is such an old word. You are most likely single and un happy that no man will love you so you hate all men. This is not the blog for you sweetie. Go back to college. Ever seen first kiss? lol and become a lisbo already just us deviants!
You will be a happier person.

if none of the above works you can always get yourself a toy so you could have an orgasm and put a smile on both of your lips.

no be gone. ;-) have a blessed day Ms Kitty meow. hsssssssss

before queerty was filled with sexists, than the sexists conceded their place to the racists, antisemits and religious intolerants and finally we have disgusting homophobes like miss shitty, it seems like it took a while, but we finally got a resident homophobic bigot

Oppresion makes us better i guess. The more oppressed we are the more we want to make a difference in other peoples life and our own. I'm a gay guys and i have an Iq of 133 i think it's because of my aspergers ADHD and bipolar (that makes me as a person these mental ailments have nothing to do with being gay) I think achieve more because i have something in my life that i want to do which is music and i want to be a role model for other gays. I want to be the geeky/artistic type in the music biz that not many people thought would be so succesful. This is my personal plight but i think the reason for the gay population as a whole to have good grades is to show others that being gay rocks and that we actually care about important things and that we're not the ones to discriminate we are the champions of society. Also i think it's because of us thinking differently that of which makes want to the opposite of our society. In american society most 3rd generation kids don't give a crap about education. Us gays do so we can get somewhere and rely on ourselves. I say with full honesty you (as in the straight guys who try to bring us down) didn't see this coming then you're obviously dumb. Just like christina's song fighter we get stronger with ever pain we recieve.

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