“Every month is a good month to be gay at Georgetown,” said Thomas Lloyd, president of the campus pride group. The day’s events were part of “OUTober,” a month jam-packed with celebrations related to all things L.G.B.T.Q., or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning.
That afternoon, they gathered for same-sex smooching in a campus “kiss-in.” They formed a winding conga line and sashayed through a life-size closet door. “COME out of the closet in style!” read the poster, and on a crisp fall day, dozens of students on Georgetown’s Red Square did, metaphorically at least.