Visualizing queer spaces: LGBTQ students and the traditionally heterogendered institution

This study explores how LGBTQ college students experience campus climate at a Midwest Urban Public institution, through a framework of the traditionally heterogendered institution (THI). According to the authors, institutional spaces continue to be organized along the gender binary, which perpetuates unwelcoming environments for LGBTQ communities. Findings illustrate how the institution engages in traditionally heterogendered discourses, and provides valuable implications for college and university practitioners to begin challenging ideals established in the THI.