He had a bad experience in high school, where he said some students told him “that homosexuals should go to hell.” When Jamesly Louis chooses the university he wants to attend next year, he’ll be looking at two things: the theater program and how safe the university is for gay students. Candido is a student at Florida Atlantic University. Allison Mullally/New York Times Student Journalism Institute Jamesly Louis, 19, an openly gay Haitian student at New World School of the Arts in Miami, is looking for a gay-friendly university to continue his theater studies.īlogger’s Note: The following article was prepared through the New York Times Student Journalism Institute, a workshop that was recently held in Miami.