Hi everyone, I’m just hopping on here for a bit of advice. I’m gonna be going to college soon and I need to start considering where I’m going to end up, so I wanna find some LGTBQ safe Catholic colleges.
For context, my parents are both Catholic, but extremely homophobic and also have some other ideologies that I don’t support. Meanwhile I’m closeted trans (agender) and queer (questioning if pansexual or aroace). I want to double major in psychology and creative writing, with my dream to become a therapist while writing on the side (and hopefully publishing).
Unfortunately, where I go to college is partially up to my parents, and where they want me to go, which very specifically is gonna have to at least appear to fit their ideologies. Especially with my major, they’re being very picky about where I go so I can fit into their mold.
They know about Jesuit colleges so that option is off the table. They’re trying to push me to go to any college on something called the “Newman List”. I’m extremely sketched out by it and don’t want to go to a “traditional Catholic college”. I’ve already been to a traditional Catholic school once, and I hated it most of the time I was there.
They’re hesitant about me going to a public college as well. They haven’t said anything about it specifically, but I think it’s going to have to take a lot of convincing for them to allow me.
I don’t mind going to a Catholic college, I just want to be careful about what their ideologies are. If anyone has any advice, please let me know, thanks! ^^