*Names have now been changed to guard the privacy of my friends…and me personally.
One of the more terrifying areas of university for anybody may be the random roomie experience. And for us gays, the complete ordeal may be much more embarrassing sauce if we’re assigned to reside by having a close-minded, homophobic boy that is straight. It occurs a lot more than you may think.
While gender-neutral housing could be the brand new frontier some universities have residence halls where both a male and feminine can occupy one space most institutions adhere to the “same-sex dorm room” staple. This makes nervous homosexual freshmen, whom perhaps simply escaped a top college ridden with misogynistic bullies, in quite the predicament that is mental.
Just Simply Take my pal John.* John stumbled on the University of Southern Carolina freshly from the cabinet and able to embrace their sex. He opted never to room with me personally (Nevertheless bitter about this, John!) in support of the “classic” random college roomie experience. The end result? John had been put in an upperclassmen residence that is apartment-style with two (seemingly!) homophobic freshmen fraternity hopefuls.
We state apparently because We partially blame John for just what took place when you look at the semester that is forthcoming. John instantly regressed as a shell of this man I became starting to become familiar with. He destroyed their spark, stopped speaking about males and would just point out the subjects he really liked (Britney, Britney and Britney) as he wasn’t around the thing that was said to be their house.
I did son’t understand their roommates well, nonetheless they absolutely weren’t assisting the problem either. The times that are few hung down at John’s apartment, their roommates had been regularly dropping the f-( maybe perhaps not f**k) bomb, saying “that’s so homosexual,” and bro-ing off to their heart’s content while John sat afraid to allow their freak rainbow banner fly. Continue reading Gay on Campus: The Directly Roommate. Probably one of the most terrifying areas of university for anybody could be the random roomie experience.