ABSTRACT
Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................276 Nondiscrimination Policies................................................................................279 Institutional Support ........................................................................................ 280
Religiously Aliated Institutions ..................................................................281 Creating Community and Identity Development .........................................283 Working Across the Great Divide................................................................. 284
All-Gender Facilities and Programming ............................................................ 284 On-Campus Housing ...................................................................................285 Restrooms .....................................................................................................287 Athletics .......................................................................................................288 Challenges ....................................................................................................289
Introduction Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA) and allied students, sta, faculty, and alumni learn, teach, live, and exist on college and university campuses across the United States. ese individuals make enormous contributions to the academic curriculum, to campus leadership, and to the general culture of every institution of which they are a part. LGBTQIA students, sta, and faculty members deal with many unique challenges, including whether to “come out” and to whom they will choose to disclose their gender or sexual identity; dealing with biphobic, homophobic, and transphobic language and situations from classmates, professors, coworkers, and administrators; and attempting to foster a healthy self-image in a heteronormative and gender conformist world (Sanlo and Espinoza 2012, 477). And the lived realities of LGBTQIA individuals can vary from campus to campus, depending on the policies, the philosophies, the politics, and the culture of an institution. ough LGBTQIA people are part of the fabric of thousands of colleges and universities across the country, many of these institutions make both conscious and unconscious choices to restrict and to impede LGBTQIA individuals’ ability to participate fully within classrooms, residence halls, athletics, cocurricular activities, departments, and other facets of campus life.
