Which US colleges and universities do DLers think are good gay-friendly choices for gays and lesbians?

Non-American here, so what is the 'obvious choice' you refer to?

Fashion Institute of Technology, where everyone has a purse.

What is the obvious choice? Yale?

I went to NYU pretty gay friendly.

Go Violets? Got to be gay with that as the team name.

Gay and lesbian? Or queer?

Is the Yale logo not showing up?

Yes, Yale has been the "gay Ivy" for years--the prominent theater department helps, but lots of gays there studying other things too.

Northwestern. Even the frats are gay.

As a grad of Northwestern (albeit in 1978), I agree.

My current employer, Ithaca College, is very welcoming of LGBTQ folk.

Here you go.

Yale isn't even on the list.

As someone who graduated not that long ago (2015) I'm not buying that list R8, it looks like someone made a few calls or did a little googling rather than any real research.

Princeton is not gay-unfriendly, just not a place where there's a very gay-positive vibe.

And to R9's point, no Yale, no NYU, no BU, no Cal?

If you are just looking for the best place to be gay at you'd probably be best off going to NYU or UCLA or somewhere, a place in the middle of a big gay scene.

Lol Yale.

University of San Francisco

If you want to go to school to be gay, then NYU is fine. If you want to learn something, avoid it.

Yale: "One in four, maybe more. One in two, maybe you."

Well, here's another list from last year. Alas, still no Yale,but lots of schools from " flyover states."

Everyone knows about Yale. And Oberlin. Both super gay.

Hunter College on the UES of Manhattan.

For lesbian and bi women, women's colleges. Just be wary of the LUGs/BUGs and the few that still mostly prep women to be Southern Belle wives.

Brigham Young (aka Bring-em Young.)

Trump University

In general larger will be better, since you'll get a good critical mass of gay and lesbian (and bi and pan and curious etc.) fellow students.

I went to a NESCAC school with about 1800 students and gay life was unbearably cliquish, tedious, boring and incestuous (figuratively).

Definitely NOT Hudson U.

Vassar for gay men

Mills for lesbians

UT Austin and Penn State in the list at R16 are kind of a surprise due to their large and douchey Greek systems.

But doesn't initiation (a/k/a hazing) many time involve getting the pledges to get naked and do something sexual sometimes? Even though the older brothers won't admit it as being kind of gay, they do get them naked and gawk at them (perhaps more).

UF gators yo

[quote]Foremost, the LGBTQ experience is woven into all aspects of the Williams community, from athletics and academics to social clubs, the arts, and more.

What *is* "the LGBTQ experience," exactly? I can't imagine anything Q or T that I would want to experience, and I can't experience anything L or B, since I'm G.

Brown.

Columbia.

Beaver College

NYU. Ignore R14 - NYU is as rigorous as other expensive universities. I went to GSAS. I’ve hired people who went to Stern and the Courant Institute. People learn a lot at NYU. It also has an on time graduation rate around 80%. Rutgers is around 60%.

I was warned by my department chair that guys at NYU are assumed gay until proven straight. That’s pretty accurate.

I proudly wear my NYU Violets football t shirt. lol. That’s the gayest team name ever.

Rigorous? BWAAAAAAAAH. It has a great grad rate because students can't wait to get out. Also, one of the ugliest student populations in America.

UMass Amherst -- I think it had one of the nation's first Stonewall Centers

Yes those small liberal acts colleges and the like will be very gay friendly r22, but the gay scene itself will be small. It just depends on what you are hoping to get out of the experience.

Stanford usually ends up at the top of many of these lists, which is surprising as there is also a large libertarian population there (and by libertarian, of course, I mean, republicans pretending they're not republicans).

I went to Florida University - Cape Kennedy.