About 38 percent of students at the Ivy League school identified as either homosexual, bisexual, queer, asexual, pansexual, questioning, or other.
The number of Brown University students identifying as LGBTQ+ has doubled since 2010, according to a new poll from the university’s student paper.identified as either homosexual, bisexual, queer, asexual, pansexual, questioning, or other — more than five times the national rate for adults not identifying as straight.
The poll was conducted by Brown University’s independent student paper, The Brown Daily Herald, as part of a special Pride Month editionThe Herald could not be reached for comment, and the university declined to comment citing the paper’s independence from the school.GallupSince The Herald first conducted a survey of sexual orientation on campus in 2010, Brown students identifying as lesbian and gay dropped by more than half from 46 to 22 percent.
One current Brown student felt the rising numbers were driven by increased social awareness about LGBTQ+ identitySome have argued that the soaring number of LGBTQ+ students at Brown is an example of a “social contagion” at a famously left-leaning school. “If this was about people feeling able to come out, then we should have seen these two trends rise together,” he said.
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