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LGBT Student Accommodation
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I personally at that age going to college would have loved a gay/gay friendly block in halls.
When I was 18 I wasn't comfortable with my sexuality at that age so being surrounded by other LGBT/gay friendly people would have been nice.
Also as someone who has been the victim of a serious homophobic attack it is important to feel comfortable and happy in your surroundings, an environment like this would definitely have appealed to me.
Plus it might be vaguely clean unlike my experience of sharing with a group of straight lads at Uni
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I personally at that age going to college would have loved a gay/gay friendly block in halls.
When I was 18 I wasn't comfortable with my sexuality at that age so being surrounded by other LGBT/gay friendly people would have been nice.
Also as someone who has been the victim of a serious homophobic attack it is important to feel comfortable and happy in your surroundings, an environment like this would definitely have appealed to me.
Plus it might be vaguely clean unlike my experience of sharing with a group of straight lads at Uni
my take is that you learned coping skills, real world experience, socialisation and resilience by living normally in a mixed demographic setting. had you lived in a bubbled wrapped confirmation biased safe-space you would have struggled when released into the big bad world. we're told diversity is good. its a strength.0 -
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I personally at that age going to college would have loved a gay/gay friendly block in halls.
When I was 18 I wasn't comfortable with my sexuality at that age so being surrounded by other LGBT/gay friendly people would have been nice.
Also as someone who has been the victim of a serious homophobic attack it is important to feel comfortable and happy in your surroundings, an environment like this would definitely have appealed to me.
Plus it might be vaguely clean unlike my experience of sharing with a group of straight lads at Uni
Take away the word gay/LGBT and substitute almost any minority group you can think of in particular “black” or “Christian conservative” and you will see that you’ve soon segregated the entire student body into maybe 10 separate groups who will all soon say that they feel “unsafe” sitting in a classroom or being taught by or walking the halls with or being exposed in any way, to anyone not in their “group”.
What will we do then?0 -
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Themselves? My suggestion is to stop isolating and labeling people and make ALL the space inclusive and not certain buildings.
Ahh honestly there’s far more being made of this than needs be IMO. It’s not unlike the idea of gay bars - they’re there for people who want to go to gay bars as opposed to bars which don’t specifically cater to a certain audience. There’s either a demand for them, or there’s not. If there’s not, they go out of business. As it turns out, it isn’t just gay men who like to listen to Erasure and Girls Aloud all night while having a few drinks
But seriously, my point is that this idea is just another selling point for UL to make it more attractive to an audience which cares for this sort of thing, than other universities. They’ve been clogging up my LinkedIn for the last month advertising and promoting all their “LGBT Initiatives”, and honestly, it’s fine! It’s grand, leave them off. I could unfollow, but there’s far more going on in the University than just a month dedicated to Pride. I’m not actually that bothered.
To the best of my knowledge, nobody is actually actively being excluded from applying for accommodation in rainbow housing (I think the idea of calling it rainbow housing is childish but I’m obviously not the target market), it’s literally open to everyone, with the idea being that anyone who applies for that specific type of accommodation is supportive of the idea. There’s still accommodation available for people who aren’t. UL hasn’t actually made less accommodation places available to everyone, in fact they’re making more accommodation and better accommodation open to everyone, spending €20m on improving the facilities too -
Construction work starts on new €20m student centre at University of Limerick
It’s not excluding or segregating anyone from the University who doesn’t want to exclude or segregate themselves from the University any more than the establishment of gay bars excludes or segregates anyone who doesn’t want to exclude or segregate themselves from bars which are also open to everyone which are generally, a bit shìte, IMO.
It’s about offering potential students choice in accommodation over other universities which don’t. Choice is good, choices are good. This is literally offering diversity in accommodation to meet the demand for diversity in accommodation. It’s a smart move by the University to cash in on what is a growing market. The fact that they’re the first in Ireland to do so immediately makes them a more attractive prospect in some people’s eyes than Universities which don’t offer the accommodation or facilities that UL do. They’re not forcing anyone to apply, they’re literally offering the facility, and it will either stand or fail based upon whether it’s a popular idea or not. I can only see demand growing, and they’ve literally put other Irish Universities on the back foot so to speak, and they will lose out to UL.
EDIT: Wait until the students arrive and they realise there’s only one gay bar in the city, they’ll practically wet themselves with joy :pac:0 -
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