Stuck in the Closet

Angela Whitlock and seven other students marched across the campus of Samford University, a Christian liberal-arts institution in Homewood, Ala., one morning in March. Several people in the group wore T-shirts with an image of Justice holding her scales. “OUTLAW,” the shirts read, in rainbow and black lettering. “Never Hide. Justice & Pride.” OUTLaw’s fight is part of an increasingly contentious movement by LGBTQ groups to gain official status on religious campuses across the country.