Living Spaces

Hello reader. I write to you now after surviving my second day of duty as an RA. After finishing my duty at 8am and passing out for a few hours of much needed rest, I hit the news stands. Or google. Whatever.

I read this lovely story on Queerty about we gays getting separate living spaces. And for a moment I celebrated. And then I began thinking about the absolute horrible-ness of this idea.

Can you imagine it? The author of that article admits that it could possibly be a beacon for hate crimes. "We're here, we're queer, we're conveniently all in one place, come beat the crap out of us!" I kid. But is it so far fetched?

But let's disregard the possibility of external violence for a moment and concentrate on the internal. As a first year RA (and a male), I've never had to deal with the dreaded... the awful... the terrifying... ALL GIRLS FLOOR! *scream* You know the floor. There's hair EVERYWHERE. Cat fights every other night. It's not the sexy dream of frat boys everywhere, it's the nightmare that even Freddy Krueger wouldn't lay a hand (claw?) on.

Now think what this would be like, except replace the girls with bitchy queens. The possibilities are endless. I hate to be stereotypical, but lets face it: men are men. And men like sex. Instead of a gay dorm, now you essentially have a bathhouse on your hands. Not only a bathhouse, but the best decorated bathhouse in the country. And impeccably clean.

I'm exaggerating of course. And the article I referenced really referred to an all-inclusive LGBT dorm, not a gay-only one. Even so, I am still torn on the issue. Would we rather segregate ourselves, or go out and mingle? Personally I think mingling is the better option.

For some people, college is the first time that they're introduced to a real live gay person! And wouldn't it be better to continue to introduce the newbs to our community? I think so. Rather than depriving them of their cherry popping experience, I think we should continue to go out into the world doing our good work of getting them better fashion sense.

Oh, and recruit them too. GAY ARMY OF THE APOCALYPSE