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These are the 'worst, most unsafe' campuses for LGBTQ students to attend

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of an amicus brief. The accurate case is Bostock vs. Clayton County.

LGBTQ students, as you contemplate college, here's a list of schools you may want to avoid.

Nonprofit organization Campus Celebration on Monday released its updated list of about 180 of the "absolute worst, most unsafe college campuses for LGBTQ students in the United States." The nonprofit organization's new alphabetical list – updated from a 2016 list – has 50 recent schools and universities.

Campus Identity festival is a volunteer-driven, student-based network that seeks to provide a safer college environment for LGBTQ students through resources, programs and services, according to their website.

Over the course of six years, colleges own been added as they either applied or received religious exemptions to Title IX, which is a federal law that "protects people from discrimination based on sex in learning programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance."

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'Shame List' Identifies 2017's 'Absolute Worst' Schools for LGBTQ Students

Nearly 140 colleges across the country have been identified as the “absolute worst campuses” for woman loving woman, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students by Campus Pride, a national corporation that advocates for LGBTQ inclusivity and safety at U.S. colleges and universities.

The organization released its second annual “Shame List” to bring negative attention to schools that are “not safe” for LGBTQ students and “openly discriminate against LGBTQ youth in policies, programs and practices,” according to a statement on the Campus Pride website.

“LGBT young people are oftentimes shamed because of their sexual orientation, so these campuses should be shamed for their religious-based bigotry against LGBT young people,” Shane Windmeyer, executive director of Campus Pride, told NBC News.

The number of schools on the list spiked up to 139 this year from 102 last year, in part, because more schools possess pending or approved religious exemptions to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs and activities. As Tit

Three Indiana colleges listed among the country's worst campuses for LGBTQ students

Editor's Note: Due to inaccurate communication provided by Campus Identity, this story originally included the University of Saint Francis – Fort Wayne on the list of unsafe campuses for LGBTQ youth. According to records from the U.S. Department of Education, the university has not applied for a Title IX religious exemption, and Campus Identity has removed Saint Francis from its list. WRTV regrets the error.

INDIANAPOLIS — Three Indiana colleges possess been deemed some of the worst universities in the country for LGBTQ students.

Campus Pride, a nonprofit LGBTQ advocacy community, released its annual findings of "the absolute worst, most unsafe campuses for LGBTQ youth" earlier this week.

The nonprofit states its 2021 Worst List is the longest its been since 2016, with 180 colleges.

According to Campus Pride, the colleges and universities listed have received or applied for a Title IX religious exemption "to openly discriminate against LGBTQ youth," or possess a history of "anti-LGBTQ policies, programs and practices."

Three of the Indiana universities on Campus Pride's Worst List are:

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  Wheaton College ranks among the worst schools for LGBTQ students, according to two lists released this week.

  Campus Pride, a nonprofit organization that aims to produce safe college environments for LGBTQ students, and the Princeton Review listed the private, Christian college as unfriendly to lesbian, gay, multi-attracted , transgender, queer or questioning students.

  The west suburban campus, with about 2,400 undergraduate students, took the top spot on the Princeton Review list of LGBTQ-Unfriendly schools, as it did in 2010 and 2012. The ranking, included in the Best Colleges guidebook released this week, was based on student responses to surveys. One question asked, “Do students, faculty and administrators at your college treat all persons equally regardless of their sexual orientations and gender identity/expression?”

  Campus Pride's “Shame List” of “worst campuses for LGBTQ youth” included 102 campuses that acquire applied or received a Title IX religious exemption to allow institutions to discriminate against LGBTQ youths, or that have demonstrated a history of anti-LGBT actions.

  “Wheaton College has qualified for the Shame List because it presented an ‘ex-gay' speaker in its chapel