*Names were changed to guard the privacy of my friends…and me personally.
One of the most terrifying elements of university for anybody may be the random roomie experience. As well as for us gays, the complete ordeal could be a lot more embarrassing sauce if we’re assigned to call home having a close-minded, homophobic straight child. It takes place a lot more than you might think.
While gender-neutral housing may be the brand new frontier some universities have residence halls where both a male and female can occupy one space most institutions adhere to the “same-sex dorm room” staple. This renders nervous homosexual freshmen, who maybe simply escaped a higher college ridden with misogynistic bullies, in quite the predicament that is mental.
