*Names have now been changed to safeguard the privacy of my friends…and me personally.
Perhaps one of the most terrifying components of college for anybody could be the roommate experience that is random. As well as for us gays, the whole ordeal could be a lot more embarrassing sauce if we’re assigned to call home with a close-minded, homophobic boy that is straight. It occurs significantly more than you might think.
While gender-neutral housing may be the brand new frontier some universities curently have residence halls where both a male and feminine can occupy one space most institutions follow the “same-sex dorm room” staple. This departs stressed homosexual freshmen, whom perhaps simply escaped a top college ridden with misogynistic bullies, in quite the psychological predicament.
Just Simply Take my pal John.* John found the University of Southern Carolina freshly out from the cabinet and able to embrace their sex. He opted not to room with me personally (Nevertheless bitter about this, John!) in support of the “classic” random university roomie experience. The effect? John had been put in an upperclassmen residence that is apartment-style with two (apparently!) homophobic freshmen fraternity hopefuls.
I state seemingly because We partially blame John for just what occurred when you look at the forthcoming semester. John instantly regressed into a shell associated with the man I became starting to get acquainted with. He destroyed their spark, stopped referring to males and would just point out the subjects he actually enjoyed (Britney, Britney and Britney) as he wasn’t around that which was allowed to be their house.
I did son’t understand their roommates perfectly, nonetheless they positively weren’t assisting the situation either. The few times we hung away at John’s apartment, their roommates had been regularly dropping the f-( maybe perhaps perhaps not f**k) bomb, saying “that’s so homosexual,” and bro-ing out to their heart’s content while John sat afraid to allow their freak rainbow banner fly.
