Professor works to break LGBT stereotypes, inform students!

Warren Blumenfeld has never performed his gender the way he is supposed to.


Or, at least, the way everyone told him he was supposed to growing up in the 1950s, pre-Stonewall Rebellion America.

His parents thought he was gay at age 2, and sent him to a psychologist at age 4 to change his "possible emerging sexual identity."

The lifelong bullying he has endured because of his sexuality brought Blumenfeld, associate professor of curriculum and instruction, to conduct a two-year research study about the safety status of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students on college campuses and the presence of a safe climate.

Working with LGBT issues for more than 40 years, he surveyed nearly 6,000 LGBT people from universities, junior colleges, students, faculty and staff administrators, Details at Iowa State Daily.