Girl + Computer = ?

Heading off to college is tough enough without getting paired with a bad egg for a roommate. Finding a good match can be even harder when you’re a square peg amid a circle of dormitory conformity — a student who’s gay or bisexual or transgender, as Rutgers senior Aaron Lee is. Now New Jersey’s state university has become the latest to announce it will allow male and female students to share a dorm room, in an effort to make the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community of students feel right at home.

Lee — who was born a girl but looks, sounds and identifies as a guy — has been working toward this goal since he was a sophomore. In years past, he says, administrators rebuffed his entreaties. But in the wake of the heavily publicized September suicide of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi — the gay student who jumped from the George Washington Bridge after his roommate allegedly streamed video on the Internet of his homosexual encounter in their dorm room — campus housing officials have agreed to make at least 100 spaces in three dorms available to students who feel uneasy living with someone of the same sex.

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