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Article: Universities reach out to gay, lesbian students.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2003
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Byline: Kim Vo
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Marena Tynan La Fontaine had her pick of top universities: Cornell, Berkeley, Princeton, Penn, Stanford. The Philadelphia teenager was looking for a top biology research program _ and at least as important, a community that would be supportive of her as a lesbian.
She found it when she stepped onto Stanford's sandstone campus.
"I came here and there were rainbow flags everywhere," said Tynan La Fontaine, who came out her senior year in high school and is now a Stanford freshman. "It was so nice."
It wasn't by chance.
More and more, universities are signaling to prospective students that they ...