Queering Campus Climate: A Review of Benjamin Arnberg’s Queer Campus Climate: An Ethnographic Fantasia

Andrew Funari

doi:10.29333/ejecs/1556

Authors

Andrew Funari Florida Gulf Coast University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8468-8177

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/1556

Keywords:

campus climate, identity development, inclusion, queer performance, queer men

Abstract

A review of Arnberg’s Queer Campus Climate: An Ethnographic Fantasia seeks to educate higher education administrators and educators about the challenges and barriers queer men face navigating a hostile campus climate in the deep south. Arnberg’s storytelling provides an immersive experience of the unique lives of queer men in higher education and the campus climate’s role in their identity development. The fantasia illustrates various issues queer men navigate including queer performance as a means of adaptation, providing safe spaces that allows authenticity, suicide and mental health problems, and barriers to developing community and support systems. Awareness of issues impacting queer men intends to encourage action among administrators to implement campus climate assessments and take meaningful action toward addressing issues of discrimination, prejudice, and inequity on their campus.

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Author Biography

Andrew Funari, Florida Gulf Coast University

Andrew D. Funari is pursuing a Doctor of Education with a concentration in Higher Educational Leadership at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). Currently serves as the Assistant Director of Sport Programs for FGCU University Recreation, Andrew is responsible for the oversight and management of recreational sport opportunities for FGCU students including intramural sports and sport centric student organizations. His research inquiry includes understanding the impact students’ sense of belonging has on retention and persistence at higher education institutions and the influence campus climate has on marginalized student populations college experience.

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