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Anonymous
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I have a gay son, and he's interested in attending Gonzaga, Georgetown Prep, and Landon. Although he's gay, he reads as masculine and most people wouldn't really suspect him to be gay. I am worried about how he will be treated at an all-boys school, because they are stereotyped as being homophobic.
Would it be wise to consider attending one of these schools, or should we look for a more progressive environment? |
Anonymous
| Seriously? |
Anonymous
| Nope |
Anonymous
You be the parent here. Do your research. He's gay. It doesn't matter how he "reads." That clearly. matters to you though. Send him to Sidwell, GDS, Potomac, SSFS, or any of the tons of local schools that embrace diversity. |
Anonymous
| Nope; would not do this. |
Anonymous
| I genuinely don’t think it would be an issue at Gonzaga. Maybe I’m naive and maybe my boys aren’t cool enough to know the kids who would bully a kid for being gay. But there are rainbow ally stickers around and I think the administration would not condone homophonic behavior. My boys have had at least one openly gay teacher. |
Anonymous
| Nope. |
Anonymous
A gay teacher doesn't need friends at the school. A student does. Most of the out of the closet gay boys I know have friends who are either gay or girls as friends. Very very few have straight male friends whom they hang out with regularly. Is your son going to be openly gay, or will he hide it? |
Anonymous
| Both my sons attended Gonzaga and both have gay friends who were out in HS. It was truly NBD. |
Anonymous
You are extremely naive |
Anonymous
Wrong answer. You don’t know what that young man thinks or feels. |
Anonymous
Another former Gonzaga mom here. My son had a friend who was gay at GZ. My son is not gay. He and the other guys all were friends and were in the Drama Club. The school is very accepting of it and I agree it is not a big deal. He will find his people. |
Anonymous
Congrats you know 1 nice group of boys at Gz. You can’t speak for the whole school. You’ll never get just how all boys schools are very aggressive. Gz boys took a sh!t on their opponents stands when they lost, vandalized a home at a religious retreat and destroyed Catholic university’s stands when they win…. And that was just in the last 5 years. We are a GZ family. (And other Catholic schools which happens when you have large families) But no, hard pass on GZ for gay boys |
Anonymous
| I would not even consider this. |
Anonymous
| Some boys schools would be fine. No knowledge of those three. Maybe look for school with a reputation for having kind and accepting students. |