Nearly 40% of students at Brown University identify as LGBTQ+ — doubling the share from 2010

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Nearly 40% of students at Brown University identify as LGBTQ+ — doubling the share from 2010

The number of Brown University students identifying as LGBTQ+ has doubled since 2010, according to a new poll from the university’s student paper.

About 38% of students at the Ivy League school identified as either homosexual, bisexual, queer, asexual, pansexual, questioning, or other — more than five times the national rate for adults not identifying as straight.

A similar poll conducted at the school just over 10 years ago found that 14% of the student body identified as being part of the LGBTQ+ community.

The poll was conducted by the Brown Daily Herald, an independent student newspaper at the Rhode Island school, and released in June as a part of a Pride Month special issue.

It is unclear how many students were polled in the survey.

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