Fraternities/Sororities LGB Inclusive, Still Trans Exclusionary
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Greek Life, the wider term for North American student organisations known as fraternities and sororities, is not typically known for for its inclusion. However, most major groups are, in fact, completely inclusive of lesbian, gay, and bisexual students.
Get Real, an organisation at Canada’s University of Western Ontario which aims to provide anti-homophobia workshops to junior high school and high school students, filmed members of UWO’s Greek Life community. In the short video, members of several major Greek organisations (FIJI, A-O-Pi, Kappa Alpha Theta, PIKE, Kappa Alpha, just to name a few) speak about their own experiences with LGB members of their organisations, or in some cases, their own experiences being queer members of these groups. And the statements made by both straight and queer members are heartwarming.