Transgender students also face discrimination in residence halls, where they may be assigned to a building or have a roommate of the "wrong" gender or be denied access to the appropriate restroom. To date, only a handful of schools, such as the University of California-Riverside, Sarah Lawrence College, Oberlin College, Lewis and Clark College, and Swarthmore College, offer a gender-neutral housing option, in which students are assigned a roommate regardless of gender and have non-gender-specific bathrooms.

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With more glbtq students and heterosexual allies choosing schools based on their climate and policies toward glbtq people, colleges and universities that currently provide little support to members of the glbtq community will need to become more inclusive or risk losing quality students to more glbtq-friendly institutions. While even schools that have historically been supportive of gay and lesbian students, staff, and faculty have been criticized at times for not doing enough, there is no denying that tremendous progress has been made when institutions now compete for glbtq students, rather than shunning or ignoring them.

"Domestic partnership" is the generic term for a variety of forms of legal and institutional recognition of same-sex couples that fall short of same-sex marriage.

Glbtq students are involved in both traditional Greek-letter societies and in gay-oriented fraternities and sororities.

Gay, lesbian, and queer studies are separate but related fields of cultural inquiry that attempt to establish the centrality of gender and sexuality within a particular area of investigation.

In a little more than thirty years, the number of glbtq student organizations has grown from a handful found at large universities to several thousand spread throughout the country to nearly all college campuses.

Transgender people are becoming increasingly visible at secondary and post-secondary schools; if institutions are to be welcoming to people of all genders, issues of discrimination and equal access to facilities and health care need to be addressed.

Women's studies, an interdisciplinary academic field that was inaugurated at major universities around 1970, is now offered at every conceivable type of academic institution throughout the world.

Formed soon after the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the short-lived but influential Gay Liberation Front brought a new militancy to the movement that became known as gay liberation.

The Point Foundation offers financial support and mentoring to college students who have been marginalized because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.