Is gay ok? Am I valid? I feel inferior to all of my family, and like I don’t belong. Why do I feel this way? I hope you find this!

Being gay is absolutely okay. I’m so sorry to hear that there are people in your life who have made it feel like it isn’t okay. You’re completely deserving of love, respect, and acceptance. The way you feel is unfortunately common and there are resources on campus to help you work through your own feelings and find support and connection with other students who have similar experiences: bit.ly/LBGTQBC . There are plenty of people out there who will love you exactly as you are and I hope that you’re able to find those people and surround yourself with them.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.