The University of Pennsylvania, which just came out as a university actively seeking queer undergrads, must have the most cross-sections of gay student groups we’ve ever seen: Jewish Bisexuals, Gays and Lesbians; Queer Christian Fellowship; Penn’s Athletes and Allies Tackling Homophobia; Queer People of Color; Queer Student Alliance; Queer Undergraduates in Engineering, Science and Technology; and Wharton Alliance. Oh, and we just found this one: School of Medicine Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender People in Medicine Plus (LGBTPM +) Faculty-Staff. [NorthJersey.com]
Lamar
I really don’t like the use of the word queer to refer to our communtiy, it means weird, strange, not normal. Gay is better because even though it is often used as a synonym for crap at least it’s roots are pure since it meant happy and more and more people are proud and happy to be gay.
Aaron in Honolulu
It’s nice to see all these different groups.
At University of Hawaii Manoa, we only have an LBGT center and this thing called Coffee Hour where LGBT students come together in a room on Wednesdays and play get-to-know-each-other-games and talk about student life and non-profit events. Sometime I feel it’s more a place to hook up than anything but that’s ok I guess if that’s your intention. But having many groups like @ UPenn sounds awesome.
Stephen Grebinski
There’s also the brand new OUTDesign, for the grad school of design.
Danika the Lesbrarian
That’s awesome that they have so many groups. I wonder how popular they are.
student
I have a small question, what should the one LGBTA group on a campus do? this year I am in a position to propose ideas and I don’t want it to be just a place for hookups, but what would be fun and not promote that?
student
I have a small question, If your campus only has one LGBTA group, what should that LGBTA group be doing? I mean, I want it to be stuff that does not promote only hook-ups, but what would do that?
student
sorry for posting twice, idk why i was looking at the top for my comment…I thought new comments were highlighted in red.
Johnny
Everyone knows that Brown and Yale are sooo much gayer, though.
PennStudent
We have 9 undergraduate organizations, and 24 total run through the Penn LGBT Center. Thanks for the shout-out! This semester we were able to start LGBT outreach in admissions, host the first ever Ivy League LGBTQA student conference, and get full triadic trans healthcare included in the student and faculty/staff insurance plans.
Current Penn Student
@Danika the Lesbrarian: As a work-study student at Penn’s LGBT Center (one of the only free-standing LGBT Center structures on any campus in the U.S.), I can tell you that the groups are wildly popular. Many of the groups meet regularly at the Center and an incredible number of students turn out for these meetings. It’s really wonderful.
Abbie
Kudos to Penn!