they were not a large number; rather a select few... you are sooooo wrong in this case. Plus, the fact that a staff member's sexual oreientation has nothing to with their credentials nor the way they function on campus, with their job... if they are an openly gay staff member, then it's just that they are comfortable with who they are, and are not willing to hide it...
there was a "large number" of heterosexual staff members, were there not? do you think that the married staff memebers should have pretended that their family did not exist?
DIVERSITY dear boy, diversity... that's all it was.