LGBTQ students face unique impediments when studying abroad. How does Northwestern support them? Northwestern LGBTQ students discuss study abroad experience, resources

It was the fall of 2016, and Broderick Topil — then a sophomore — had a monumental choice to make. He had found himself in the rural and religious heartland of the Dominican Republic, where he was doing community work for a local nongovernmental organization. The internship, organized through Northwestern’s Global Engagement Studies Institute, marked...