The rise of the queer fresher

The rise of the queer fresher

Yasmin Vince investigates why so many people realise they’re LGBTQIA+ at university Everyone knows someone like this: they roll up to university, fresh-faced and “straight”. When they come back for their second year, they’re bleeding rainbows. Somewhere amid the parties, hungover lectures and late nights in the library, they’ve had their big gay awakening. As a whole set of university freshers disperse across the country this September, it begs …