Even on Religious Campuses, Students Fight for Gay Identity

Dan82 · Apr 19, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/us/19gays.html?_r=2&hp

Battles for acceptance by gay and lesbian students have erupted in the places that expect it the least: the scores of Bible colleges and evangelical Christian universities that, in their founding beliefs, see homosexuality as a sin.

Decades after the gay rights movement swept the country’s secular schools, more gays and lesbians at Christian colleges are starting to come out of the closet, demanding a right to proclaim their identities and form campus clubs, and rejecting suggestions to seek help in suppressing homosexual desires.

Many of the newly assertive students grew up as Christians and developed a sense of their sexual identities only after starting college, and after years of inner torment. They spring from a new generation of evangelical youths that, over all, holds far less harsh views of homosexuality than its elders...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/us/19gays.html?_r=2&hp
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Even on Religious Campuses, Students Fight for Gay Identity

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