Later, she found out one of her two roommates had reported her. Tessa Russell, right, and her girlfriend Ash Ables. There was nothing wrong with that, but it was just so looked down upon by my peers,” Russell, who graduated in the spring, told the Guardian. “It was just painful because it was so shameful – even though it’s something that should not be – I have a girlfriend who I love. I recommend you go to therapy for this,” Russell was told. “You know, you can get counseling for this kind of thing. Feeling that she didn’t have a choice, she left Ables and went back to her dorm at 3am, where her adviser was waiting. Her RA demanded that she return, saying the two “could not be together”. Russell frantically reached out to her Liberty LGBTQ network, and the couple crashed at a friend’s apartment. Her resident adviser wasn’t buying it, and ordered Ables to leave campus. Because same-sex relationships are effectively verboten at the evangelical Christian school, Russell immediately tried to pass the relationship off as platonic. The two were eating pizza in front of the TV when Russell’s resident adviser (RA) swiped into the room, catching the couple off guard.