Please help me! I am an up comming college student, but i dont know what college to choose. I myself have very "high hopes" for my life and one of my steping stones to get there is college. So which one do i choose?

Please list the college, state/county, and furthermore your reasons.

I recently graduated from the University of Georgia (in Athens, Georgia) and I think it is pretty good in terms of its GLBT inclusiveness.



We have an LGBT Resource Center ( http://www.uga.edu/lgbtcenter/), a GLBT-friendly health center, some GLBT organizations, and a few gender-neutral restrooms around campus. One cool thing about my school is that we are smack dab in the middle of Downtown Athens and there are a LOT of clubs/bars/restaurants including GLBT-friendly ones: http://faculty.english.uga.edu/~dawgspeak/lgbthelp.html Because I was a "shut-in" I didn't go to any bars and now I regret it. ^_^ Finally, the "big" things: UGA's non-discrimination policy includes sexual orientation (but, unfortunately, not gender identity; we're still working on that) and UGA offers soft domestic partner benefits to students and staff.



I am a bio-female and I dress androgynously (short hair, boyish clothes) but I never had any problems. There are a lot of people who dress "eccentrically" and they are treated just like everyone else. (Seriously. On some days, people would wear costumes for classes and no one cared. ^_^) There is definitely no unofficial dress code. I remember that there was at least one openly transwoman on our campus and I think she lived in the dorms.



Basically, I am an androgynous person and I had a good experience at UGA. If you are not a religous/spiritual person (I identify as agnostic atheist), I think you will be fine, too. Most people identify as Christian (of course, it's Georgia ^_^), but there are a lot of open-minded people at UGA. If I were you, I would google "lgbt college" because a LOT of stuff popped up. Good luck finding a school.