LGBT Club: College

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I was wondering if anyone who has been to college or is in college right now, has ever joined the LGBT club at their school? In high school I never joined any clubs and meeting people was sincerely hard. Because I don't see how I could walk up to someone and start a conversation with nothing to start, nothing in common. At least if I am in a club maybe, there will be more conversation to spark up. I am also thinking of joining the Art Club as well. If you have ever been in an LGBT club. What was/is yours like? Was it easier for you? I was just wondering experiences wise.

Clubs are good, by definition you will find yourself with people with whom you share an interest.

Maybe within this club I could learn more about the LGBT community. Ways to support and help out around the college and elsewhere. As for myself I don't fit under any specific sexual orientation. So maybe I'll find out more about myself as well.

Where I went to undergrad it was very small so we didn't have anything like that but in grad school I went to a meeting of the general gay club for students. It was incredibly clique-ish. However I met some students there who were trying to start another group for black GLBT students and their allies and I ended up helping them secure funding from the school and became very much a part of that group because they were more interested in discussing "heavy" topics instead of just having a place to hook-up. From that I began to really get invested in my community and that was what caused me to change paths and start studying HIV prevention among MSM (men who have sex with men). For me then it was a pretty important thing.

Yeah, lots of them can be pretty clique-y. I went to a large Texas public school that's not UT, and it surprisingly had a fairly large GLBT group. It was fun for about half of my first freshman semester, I even got voted in as a student representative, but I'm not big into politics and that's ALL they were about. That and hooking up. I did meet two very good friends in there, though. We only showed up for the free food after some drama happened. Seriously just took the pizza and left, every week. :/

I went to one at my uni but have stopped going because it was all about "awareness" and campaigning for gay marriage and letting everyone know we exist, instead of a place to hang out with other people like you and have fun and support each other.
Also especially if you are not out yet, or coming out you don't really want to be campaigning about it! You want to be talking about it with other people who are the same and have been through it and come out the end all happy and with a partner perhaps.
But I'd give it a go and see what the motivation of the group is, and it's always a way to meet new people and make new friends!

i didnt think it was very helpful. a crowd of people is a crowd of people. mine was a big crowd and they were mostly guys. and they were all talking in a thousand voices about a thousand different things at the same time and it was just waaay too much. they were a little insular. and i still hve nothing in common with humanity. they were very apolitical. i had hoped they might do something even if it was just turning up to the marriage equality rallies that they didnt organise, advertise or anything. it felt awkward for me as a female aspie.

I attended an out of school LGBT youth project from the ages of 13-18, I also went to monthly meetings a two hour train ride away.

I found the weekly LGBT youth project was good at getting me around people, and put me in touch with a lot of adult youth workers whose company and advice I enjoyed. The people attending however were mostly heterosexual, and were neutral on the topic of homosexuality, and negative and hurtful on the topic of transgenderism.

An exemplar quote would be 'I don't have a problem with people changing their name, but I think people should keep it to themselves if they're unhappy with their gender' (I prettied that quote up some).

Most of the attendents were rude, disrespectful and generally harmful to the situation. The one that I travelled to attend monthly was excellent, and although I never worked up the nerve to tell them I was trans (as far as most of them were concerned I was a homosexual female) I'm certain that I would have been treated with respect. I'm looking forward to going back to that group soon actually, as I am moving to the area where it meets.

But, having said that, I went to a creative writing club and there were just as many people there being assholey about writing. So, I don't know, maybe people are just pricks.

I would not go near the LGBT group at Uni. It is terribly clique-ish and while having a group to protect the rights of LGBT students is great, I find that most people in these groups reduce their entire identities to being "queer". I want nothing to do with it and that's why I stay away from the scene altogether. Not to mention that I have felt equal nonacceptance in LGBT spaces as I do in heteronormative spaces because of my third gender/intersex status.