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For anyone who read Amanda Hess’s great cover story for the Washington City Paper on sex at Catholic University, it will come as no surprise that the queer community on CUA’s campus is not exactly visible. Kudos to the LGBT kids who are trying to make a place for themselves at Catholic. But even straight unmarried students can’t do the damn thing, according to the university’s Code of Student Conduct (and, well, the Catechism). So how’re gay kids supposed to get down?

They don’t, unofficially speaking. The Washington Post writes up the CUAllies, an unofficial student organization whose mission is to welcome and support LBGT students and staff. As you might imagine of a school that shares a name with an organization that describes homosexual acts as “intrinsically disordered,” Catholic University is not so much down with CUAllies. Though CUAllies isn’t banned outright, the group has less standing on campus than the school’s official student club for Magic: The Gathering.

Nevertheless, CUAllies comports itself as if they were the real registered deal. As the Post observes, “[T]he group has a self-imposed list of topics that are off-limits: pre-marital sex, gay sex, birth control, gay marriage and behavior not permitted by the Catholic church.” The first rule of this queer club is do not talk about being queer.