OUT'S GUIDE TO FRAT BOYS, ATHLETICS SUPPORTERS, AND BIG MEN ON CAMPUS!!!

The best years of your life? Not if you went to school when gay students gathered in the shadows. But with more options than ever for the homosexualy inclined, your alma mater (or your future school choice) never looked so good.

Best Small School where Size Doesnt Matter

The best small school in the country for gays is the big O. Anything you can do. Oberlin College can do gayer. The tiny Ohio school's progressive history is legendary. It was the first college in the country to go coed and one of the first colleges in the world to admit blacks. In 2002 it even gave trans gendered students priority in choosing single-student dorm rooms.
"At Oberlin you're gay until proven innocent," says Ben Feinberg-Gerner, a junior. He chose Oberlin over similar liberal arts colleges because of its very out. very proud campus life which includes an annual Safer Sex Night, complete with porn projected on buildings and an any thing goes Tent of Consent. "At other colleges." Femberg-Geriief says, "people aren't gay unless they have a dick in their mouth. Here you can be open about being whatever kind of gay you want to tie. But Oberlin isn't a hedonistic sex party all the time or even ever. It's just open to that.''

"At the end of school, I snapped during finals, and so I dressed in drag for a week to make myself feel better. I got no harassment. Actually. I got compliments," says Darwin Rodriguez, a sophomore and leader of a gay umbrella student group who also says that 51% of the campus identifies as "not straight." "Oberlin exists in a bubble," he says. "It's so disconnected from the real world. Other colleges have football games. We have Drag Ball. Everyone gets in drag straights, the whole campus and it's accepted, not even questioned. It's just who we are."

 

Best Campus for Theater Queens & Arts

Take one naked student, add itching, set for eight hours. That was the recipe for a performance art piece at Brown University in Providence, R.I., last school year. The alma mater of JFK Jr. who also dabbled in acting while there, is the best place to be an artsy gay student. Specifically, College Hill, with Brown on top and the Rhode Island School of Design (a.k.a RISD, pronounced "RlZZ-dee") on bottom along with Trinity Repertory Company, which has a partnership with Brown.

"Every theater moment is gay, especially musical the­ater." says John McCutcheon, a junior who has performed in Bdtboy and Into the Woods and choreographed an origi­nal musical about Brown student life—as well as handled set design for shows, including dadaist murals for Hedwig snd the Angry Inch. "Anyone who enters the theater com­munity—any guy—is immediately suspect," says McCutcheon. "Guys will go to great lengths to test another guy's sexual limits." One artistic endeavorinspire another, so tribute to the boys of Brown, we offer a frou frou haiku: Brown Theater boys, Pushing sexual limits... Tool late to transfer?

 

Largest Gay Endowment

Eight is usually just the start of the range that impresses most num­bers queens, but among college endowments such a number is as big as it gets. The $7.5 million endowment for the Charles R. Williams Project on Sexual Orientation and the Lew at the University of California. Los Angeles, is "the largest donation ever given to any academic institution in support of a gay and lesbian academic pro­gram in any discipline," according to the school. Although it's part of the law school, undergrads can hear speakers, intern, and help make selections for the school's law journal. Whatever they do. they don't underestimate the thickness of UCLA's...wallet.

 

Best Campus to get rushed by Frats !!!

There's a lot about frat boys that's pretty gay already. Pledging loving submission to men who paddle, strip, and drink their way into each other's hearts, .c'mon, guys. Still, there's perhaps no college where gay Greek life means more than at the University of Virginia, where alter­native life used to mean wearing an orange tie with blue stripes rather than a blue tie with orange stripes. The landscape is already flush with preppy Southerners in plenty of secret societies as well as fraternities—and now one group is officially gay. out, and proud.

This year a club called Out on Rugby became a chapter of Delta Lambda Phi. 3 nationwide gay frat house. But it's not the first group to offer fraternal men-on-men loving. The Greek Men's Club, started in fall 2003, Involves about a dozen members of varying levels of out­ness who belong to "straight frat houses" and meet in a secrst loca­tion that changes every two weeks. Matt Maring (delta upsilonj, an '04 grad, started the group. "People are finally growing up and realis­ing that gays aren't bad, that they don'i: go Greek to get ass," he says. Despite changing attitudes, he adds. "There are still so many secrets out there in the UVA Greek system." He notes, "Our group is not a gay Greek circle jerk. It's a place where people feel comfortable being themselves, finding other kids in the same situation. It's brotherhood."

One club member who's partially out spoke anonymously because of the RDTC program. A junior in a frat that had an out president, he's out to about a third of his 30-some brothers He doesn't hide his sexu­ality; he just doesn't broadcast it. "When I came out, it felt natural. It wasn't because of pressure," he says. "That's the thing. 1 know my brothers iove me. There's never pressure in a bad way. Not really."

 

Best College for Gay to pull an All - Nighter !!!

Scholarly gay students can choose to bone up on gay psychology, gay literature, gay film, gay history, gay law, ant) gay pretty-much-anything these days. And there's no place better to do it than Jesse Hetms's backyard, at Duke Uniyersity, full of Gpen-minded Devils' advocates (literally) For brainy 2xistentia lists, the basketball powerhouse scores big with classes in the Program in Sexuality Studies—on topics includ­ing "money, sex and power," "masculine anxi­ety." Walt Whitman, and an oral history of. gender and sexuality. Top your career with the Lavender Graduation, which honors the accomplishments of gay students and ailies.

 

Best Campus to meet Mr. Right !!!

When you're looking for your gay Mr. Right you want to play your odds straight. Figuring the old l-m-10 rule, the school with the most students is your best shot. Luckily, that happens to be in a liberal city with a name worthy of a gay porn star: Austin. That'd be the University of Texas at Austin, which is swarming With some 50,000 students (so around 5.000 chances'?).

So what is today's UT looking for? "My boyfriend first and foremost should be my best friend," says Brendan Rilsy, a senior Tyler Benton, a junior, agrees: "Getting off with people is easy, but I don't get anything out of it if there's no feeling in it. Boyfriends are 10 times better than strangers. Always " But watch out. "The best part of UT is that all the gays here are pretty 'normal,' well-rounded," says Riley. "If your fife revolves around being gay, nobody wants that."

 

Best Campus to meet Mr. Right Now !!!

Wouldn't it be nice to put all the horny kids with experimental sex on the brain in one dorm? Folks at the University of Iowa agree. Beginning in the fall of 2005, one floor in a residence hall will be set aside for students curious about sexuality studies. Technically called a "learning community," the floor will host biweekly programs such as movies and lectures put on by professors of sexuality studies.