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Hobbs is one of what students and Harvard officials believe to be a record number of openly gay first-years. In the past, when the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) held its annual reception for gay, lesbian and bisexual first-years and their roommates, no more than 10 students showed...
"I think that the reason that there are so many out freshmen is that there are more people out in high school," Hobbs says. "I know I tell upperclassmen that I was out in high school and they're surprised."
"My mother was against the idea of being out on my rooming application. I did put in slanted references, though nothing explicit," Hobbs says. "I just said I was looking for a group of rooming people who were open-minded and liberal and open to different modes of life. I...
"People who are out in high school when they are looking at colleges look very carefully at what the gay community is like at those colleges," Hobbs says. "I met a couple of freshmen who were out during freshman week who chose Yale or Brown precisely because of that reason...
"My friend from high school who is also gay is in a freshman dorm at Brown with around 200 people," Hobbs says. "Of that 200, maybe 20 or 25 are gay bisexual or lesbian, as opposed to the same number for the entire class of Harvard."