University of Miami (Fla.) Opens Community Exclusively For LGBTQ Students in Residence Hall

Sergie Daez | March 30, 2021
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According to Campus Reform, the University of Miami (UM) in Florida is opening the “Gender and Sexuality Studies Living Learning Community” solely for LGBTQ students and their supporters. 

The community was formed by the university's LGBTQ Student Center, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Housing and Residential Life, and is located in Mahoney Residential College, one of the university’s residence halls.  

It will be mandatory for the community’s members to take certain classes from the gender and sexualities department.

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Not everybody was supportive of the community. A senior student at the university, who is also a member of the LGBTQ community, was uncomfortable with the idea. 

“Obviously this is an option for students to opt-into, and I think it’s an interesting idea to allow this option for people interested in this,” student Randy Fitzgerald told Campus Reform. “But just as I wouldn’t have opted into a ‘white’ dorm, I wouldn’t opt into housing based on sexual identity — both are identities that I was born with, but I don’t need to be exclusionary about them.”

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