Muncie, Indiana-based Ball State
University recently hosted Straight But Not Narrow's (SBNN) first
college event.
Twenty-year-old actor Avan Jogia, who
played Ben Stark on cabler Syfy's Battlestar Galactica spinoff
Caprica and currently plays Beck Oliver on the Nickelodeon
teen sitcom Victorious, launched SBNN in 2011 to fight
homophobia.
In a video shot during the event, a
touch football playoff, a student says she wanted to support SBNN
because her gay friend is no different from herself.
“I feel strongly about SBNN because I
have a friend from high school who is actually gay and I don't think
of him any differently,” she said. “He's the same person as me
or anybody else. And I love him for just who he is. And I think
he's the greatest person I know. I think anybody in the LGBT
community should be accepted for who they are because they're just
like us.”
Another female student said
participating in the event got her involved in SBNN.
“So I didn't know very much about
Straight But Not Narrow before I got involved in [team] Cardinal
Comm,” she said. “But they kind of opened my eyes to it and now I
think it's a really great organization and I follow them on Facebook
and Twitter and I always like to see what they're talking about and I
watch all their PSAs.” (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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