I am constantly reminded when I visit colleges in the South how much work there is to be done. But I also forget how much change is happening across the nation -- even in the South.

Yesterday Campus Pride was at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. I delievered my program "What's Your Gay Point Average?" This was the first national program of its kind brought to campus -- over 200+ students attended -- not bad, huh? It was one of the many featured events during National Coming Out Month. Earlier in the day I spent time with several students and also did a workshop for the Resident Life Assistants. One of the things that I learned through the RA session is that 75% of the RAs had a family member who was LGBT and similarly 75% also had a "best friend" who was LGBT. Not surprisingly, all but a few had experienced or witnessed LGBT harassment in some form.

I share this because indeed LGBT youth are the future and change is happening. And even in the South, I find young adults who are impacted positively by "best friends" and family who are out as LGBT. This National Coming Out Day use your voice to come out to family and loved ones. Change is happening not because of politicians, athletes or celbrities coming out -- but rather our personal relationships with those we love.

Happy National Coming Out Day!

Congratulations to University of Louisiana Lafayette for a successful NCOM! Keep up your hard work! Plus, I enjoyed eating fried alligator and meeting all of you! Check out a photo from the swamp on campus -- GEAUX RAGIN CAJUNS!

“Good Morning, Baltimore.” I arrived yesterday in Baltimore, MD. And I had to make a Hairspray Musical reference at least once. I guess this is the official start to the Campus Pride Fall travel season. Woo Hoo!

Although I am not at a college, I am attending for our first time the National Association of College Admission Counselors Conference (NACAC) hosted this year in Baltimore, MD. The theme of the conference has something to do with “crabs” – so I took a picture of one of the volunteers. Poor thing. All I could think about was Mr. Crabby Patty from the cartoon Sponge Bob Square Pants. She was a good sport and let me take a photo. Thanks!

While this is not a LGBT conference, Campus Pride has invested time and money into doing outreach around our LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index (www.campusclimateindex.org). Our goal being at the conference is to make more colleges aware of the Index, our LGBT-friendly college fairs and how to best recruit openly LGBT students to their campus. Campus Pride submitted two workshops to the conference and presented one today, the other one will be tomorrow. The workshop today was in collaboration with our educational partner the Point Foundation (www.pointfoundation.org) --who is simply fabulous. Campus Pride loves working with Point Foundation. Todays workshop will hopefully be one of many more educational efforts we do together in the future.

Campus Pride works so hard every year to put together an awesome camp for LGBT & Ally college students from across the nation. This year (the third year) we had over 50 students in attendance and 20 faculty/student leader volunteers. Plus, we had a dozen student ambassadors from our camp host Towson University. So amazing, so much work! So much FUN!

As you might imagine, I am exhausted from a week of learning, action and friendships. Plus, I forget how uncomfortable a residence hall bed can be for five nights. So for now I am just going to share some pictures below.

Thank you to everyone who made camp possible this year – our stellar volunteers, corporate sponsors, individual donors, faculty, pride leaders, planning team and staff of Towson University – GO CAMP! Learn more online at www.campuspride.org/camp.asp

The Lambda 10 Project for LGBT Fraternity & Sorority Issues (http://www.gaygreeks.org), an educational initiative of Campus Pride, got a sneak peek of some upcoming episodes from the hit dramedy GREEK on ABC Family.

Of course, there is a lot of of drama associated with fraternities and sororites in general. The GREEK television series is nothing short of that either. Regardless, Campus Pride is pleased finally to see out gay characters portrayed within fraternity and sorority life. The characters are diverse, honest and real -- the subject matter is age appropriate for teens as they deal with issues of dating, race, sexuality and gender.

Now, as you will soon see from the clips, GREEK plans to get a little steamy this May. Viewers will be left to see if brotherhood between two openly gay men should be strictly platonic? Or if brotherly love will blossom? It should be interesting to see what happens next and how this impacts the entire brotherhood-- stay tuned GREEK on ABC Family, Mondays 8/7c.

Watch the clips online at Campus Pride -- http://www.campuspride.org/abcfamily.asp