Queeriosity: How Friendly is Amherst?

Until middle school I wasn’t aware that people could identify as anything other than heterosexual. Freshman year of high school was when I first met other people who were open about their sexualities, and when I began to realize that it wasn’t a bad thing. Junior year, I realized I wasn’t quite as straight as I thought I was. I consider myself lucky that the international school I attended for 12 years in Tokyo, Japan was extremely accepting. I joined the Gay Straight Student Alliance, a club t