Nor was Yale’s reputation created through alumni activism. The current administration is gay-friendly, but Yale administrators historically have not sought to push the envelope on these issues.
Yale was one of the last Ivies to create an office of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) resources. How did this happen? Not through a strategic plan. The campus is unusually welcoming to gay and lesbian students and has an active, multifaceted gay social scene. For the central point of the Gay Ivy tag is that Yale is a gay-friendly school. And if you walk around campus for a while on your visit, you may see a gay couple holding hands. Yale probably does, however, have a higher proportion of gay students than other Ivies there are no statistics, but many gay Yale students think it’s true. You have only to visit campus in the springtime to see boy-girl romanceblooming all over, ubiquitous as ever.
What does “the Gay Ivy” mean? It’s not that Yale is a minority-heterosexual school. Yale was one of the last Ivies to create an office of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer resources.