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“Not Going Away”: Approaches Used by Students, Faculty, and Staff Members to Create Gay–Straight Alliances at Three Religiously Affiliated Universities

This qualitative study examines the processes of forming gay–straight alliances at three religiously affiliated institutions of higher education. Using the lens of Social Movement Theory (SMT), this paper presents the methods and approaches used when advocates of gay–straight alliances at these institutions encountered resistance from administrators. The article analyzes the use of collaborative, conciliatory, assertive, and underground/subversive methods within specific contexts and also draws on three models provided by SMT to offer insight that may prove useful to people working to form gay–straight alliances or to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) students at religiously affiliated institutions.