Gay students are offered special college scholarships

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/13/04 | LISA LEFF

[MikalM]

Alyn Libman won a $15,000-a-year scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley with a resume that showed more than just Libman's athletic achievement and academic potential.

It also showed years of ridicule, beatings and threats, along with Libman's decision to become a boy in 11th grade.

"It felt amazing to actually be embraced by someone who didn't just dismiss me for being different," said Libman, a 19-year-old aspiring civil rights lawyer and the first transgendered person to win a scholarship from The Point Foundation, a Chicago nonprofit organization that has awarded more than $1 million to college-bound gays since 2002.

For those seeking financial aid to attend college, it doesn't necessarily hurt to be gay or transgender. An increasing number of charities, professional groups and universities offer scholarships on the basis of sexual orientation.

[Prime Choice]

For those seeking financial aid to attend college, it doesn't necessarily hurt to be gay or transgender. An increasing number of charities, professional groups and universities offer scholarships on the basis of sexual orientation.

And if any charity offered scholarships on the basis of chastity, the ACLU would be hauling them to court before you can say "double standard."

[randog]

An increasing number of charities, professional groups and universities offer scholarships on the basis of sexual orientation.

And what proof of gay-ness do these colleges require? Can you be bi-curious and still qualify? What if you just stared at another guy's butt in the locker room a little too long? How much is that good for? Aren't we all gay but we're just afraid to come out of the closet?

So many questions....

[pogo101]

This reminds me of a 1980s movie, "Soul Man," in which a white kid pretends to be a light-skinned black man -- makeup, Afro, etc. -- to get into, and stay enrolled at, an elite law school.

If one claimed to be gay, how exactly could the school audit that claim? If they tried to yank the scholarship upon "catching" you dating a member of the opposite sex, couldn't you claim to have been "bi" all along ... which, according to some sexuality theorists, everyone is (to one extent or another) in any event??

[sheik yerbouty]

What about scholarships for male lesbians?

[Happy2BMe]

""It felt amazing to actually be embraced by someone who didn't just dismiss me for being different," said Libman, a 19-year-old aspiring civil rights lawyer and the first transgendered person to win a scholarship from The Point Foundation, a Chicago nonprofit organization that has awarded more than $1 million to college-bound gays since 2002."

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But what about the PEDOPHILE SHOLARSHIPS? And the BEASTIALITY SHOLAARSHIPS? And the FECES LOVERS . . . - ping.

[Michael Barnes]

;-)

[spodefly]

For those seeking financial aid to attend college, it doesn't necessarily hurt to be gay or transgender.

There is no comment that I can make to that absurd bizarro-world statement that will not get me banned, or at least be impolite in mixed company.

[Stellar Dendrite]

Orwell was right, some animals are more "equal" than others.

Let's just hope that they can't destroy marraige. In my mind, it has little to do with religion, and more to do with the planned destruction of the family unit as directed by the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci.

[codyjacksmom]

What a big ol' pile of cow dung!!!

[longtermmemmory]

so the discriminate against metrosexuals.

[Cultural Jihad]

How do the administrators confirm that an individual is a member of a behavioral "minority group"?

[randog]

This reminds me of a 1980s movie, "Soul Man," in which a white kid pretends to be a light-skinned black man -- makeup, Afro, etc. -- to get into, and stay enrolled at, an elite law school.

I enrolled as a black man in college (I'm white).

I'll always wonder whether I got those scholarships based on merit or skin color....

[Michael.SF.]

I bet this one got a Music scholarship:

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1214723/posts
"Sex Lead Me To Communism"

[LouAvul]

Berkeley is an outstanding place for this person. That's as much a degenerate cesspool today as it was during the reign of those filty humans aka hippies.

[rpgdfmx]

"And if any charity offered scholarships on the basis of chastity" Actually, I've met people who did receive scholarships based on just that... like homosexuality, a not necessarily obvious and easily provable trait.

Since this involves a private charity, spending its own money, why would anyone be upset. Sounds conservative to me

[mountaineer]

I enrolled as a black man in college (I'm white).

In those rare instances where my "race" is requested, I always indicate "Native American," even though my ancestry is English and Scottish. Hey, I was born in Pennylsvania - I believe that makes me a native-born American.

[Porterville]

They're going to give scholarships to everyone from NJ?

[camboianchristmas]

I can't disagree with you there. People or private organizations can spend their money any way they choose. And I can laugh at them any time I want. Isn't America great?