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Book
shows how homophobia starts in the schoolyard:
"Dr Plummer found that homophobia peaks in the mid to late teens, with
boys in years 8 and 9 reporting that they use the word 'poofter' 25 to
50 times a day. These attitudes, he said, were often an exaggerated expression
of heterosexual identity, and thus effected everyone. 'Boys who aren't
targeted by others observe what goes on and make sure they don't do anything
that might be considered suspect or that would make them stand out.'" -
How
Do People Treat You? (Related Information) (Related Report: Writing Themselves In Again: PDF Download) "Young men were more likely to be targeted for verbal abuse,
and 46% of participants overall stated they had been verbally abused. Thirteen
percent of participants had been physically abused. Almost 70% of the abuse
disclosed had taken place at school, which means that school is a more
violent place for these young people than the streets." - Variations of
this Australian situation exists in many countries of the world. - Gay-Rights
Groups Draft Guide To Laws on Harassment [in US Schools] (Must Subscribe).
- Who's
looking after gay teenagers? - Is
homophobic bullying a problem in schools? - Perceptions
of homophobia and heterosexism in physical education: "These data indicate
that homophobic and heterosexist behaviors are common in secondary schools,
that teachers intend to provide a safe space, and that teachers fail to
confront heterosexist or homophobic behaviors and take proactive steps
to create an inclusive environment." - Reaching Out to the Out: Kids and educators battle homophobia in schools. - The Necessity of Gay-Straight Alliances in Middle Schools.
Anti-gay slurs common at school: Some say insults increase as gays visibility rises. - How the Homophobic Climate in the United States Affects GLBTQ Youth. - Homophobic Bullying 'Getting Worse':
High-profile homophobic bullying initiatives are failing to make a
significant impact in preventing homophobic bullying according to the
Queer Youth Network (a national organisation by by and for Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered young people). It argues the very
nature of schools themselves need to be looked at in order to eradicate
all forms of bullying. Tackling homophobic bullying alone is creating a
distraction from dealing with a much larger problem. - A study of former high-school American Football players has found that more than a third said they had had sexual relations with other men.
Do
Schools Fail Gay and Lesbian Youth?
(Alternate Link) - Gay
and Lesbian Teens. - GLBTQ
Youth: At Risk and Underserved. - Worst
days of their lives: "School is usually a nightmare for gay and lesbian
pupils, writes Greg Callaghan. 'FAGGOT! Pooftah! Fairy!' They kept yelling
it at me, as I left the school yard..." - Homosexuality
and School Superintendents: A Brief History. - Gay
Teens at Risk. Fastback 357. - Gay
Youth in American Public High Schools: Invisible Diversity. -
The
Needs of Lesbian and Gay Young People - Exploring the Possibilities for
Change in Schools (UK). - Gay
Proms: Separate but Equal? - More
high school proms opening doors to same-sex couples. - Six
national school health professional organizations are collaborating in
the Healthy LGB Students Project. - Healthy Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students Project. - Gay-lesbian
support groups in US public high schools. - Making
Schools Safe for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Students: A
Resource Guide. - Creating Safe Schools for Lesbian and Gay Students: A resource guide for school staff. - More
than 100 PFGAG chapters active in PFGAG national safe schools program.
People
For the American Way: Gay and Lesbian Issues in Schools. - Lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender youth: Understanding available support systems
in the high school environment. - Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth - Pressing Needs and Promising Practices.
- Gay
Teens: Preventing Self-Harm (School Nurse). The author concludes: "The
health care provider, whether in a school-based clinic, a primary care
clinic, an emergency department, an inpatient unit, a specialty clinic,
or a shelter for homeless youth, is unquestionably in a position to assist
these struggling adolescents to reduce self-harm and to increase self-acceptance."
- Social
Work with Gay and Lesbian Adolescents (by Deana F. Morrow:
Now only available as Word
97/2000 Document Download - Fighting
to Allow Gay Clubs at Schools. - Gay Teens Ignored by High School Sex Ed Classes. - Lessons on Homosexuality Move Into the Classroom.
Why
We Need to Address Lesbian and Gay Issues in Our Schools. - American
Psychological Association's resolutions re: GLBT Youth in Schools.
- Healthy,
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students Project. - Research
on Health Education Needs of LGBT Youth. - The
Needs of Lesbian and Gay Young People: Exploring the Possibilities for
Change in Schools. - Anderson, J. D. (Phi Delta Kappan, 1994): School
climate for gay and lesbian students and staff members: "In
every class in every school throughout our country there are students who
are not being given an equal education." - Demystifying Homosexuality in
Schools in the Chaudière-Appalachia Region: An Aid to Intervention
(PDF
Download). - Gaybashing
in Schools. - Gay-Bashing in Adventist Schools. - Les
garçons, toujours les plus mal à l'aise face à l'homosexualité
au secondaire et au cégep. - L'homosexualité
à l'école: toujours taboue.
No Sex, Please, We’re Gay Teens:...
The GLBT movement is seriously failing queer young people in matters of
sex.... Young queer people today are growing up in a world where gay
and mainstream culture give them mixed signals about sexuality and
sexual behavior. The two historical circumstances that made growing up
gay so unique for those born in the mid-1980s and after—the fight for
marriage equality and the AIDS epidemic—are also making it almost
impossible to have informed, healthy, and sane discussions about sexual
desire and sexual activity. That’s because in recent years the clanging
of wedding bells and the insistent bad news about HIV transmission
(much of it fueled by anti-gay hysteria in the mainstream media) has
distorted how the gay and lesbian community talks about sex. Over the
past five years, safe sex education, seen from the mostly gay-run AIDS
non-profits, has shifted from promoting healthy sexuality and sexual
behavior to the “be afraid to have sex” scare tactics of the 1980s.
Moreover, the fight for marriage equality—and the elevation of marriage
as the idealized pinnacle of appropriate and healthy homosexuality—has
moved front and center in gay politics and, to a large degree, in the
imaginations of young gay people, much to their detriment... In almost
all the community discussion of marriage equality, the word “sex”—even
the idea of “sex”—is glaringly absent... The connection between AIDS
and marriage here is not incidental or accidental. When the AIDS
epidemic exploded, one of the first responses to it, both within and
outside the queer community, was to urge gay men to stop having sex and
to enter into monogamous relationships. Even after the specifics of
AIDS transmission became known, much AIDS education focused on
curtailing sexual experience altogether. For many gay male
commentators, such as Larry Kramer, Bruce Bawer, and Gabriel Rotello,
the curtailment of sexual activity was the only “cure” for the AIDS
epidemic. .. Most of us—excluding a significant part of the religious
right, which favors abstinence-only sex- ed—know that people get better
at sex not only by having a range of sexual experiences, often with
different people, but also by thinking and talking about sex. That is
the conversation that gay men and lesbians as a community are not
having and that is being stifled by the power and the enormous
consequence that the same-sex marriage debate—drained of sex—has
assumed in our politics and lives.
Why
schools must address gay issues - by Dan Woog - author of School's
Out: The Impact of Gay and Lesbian Issues on America's Schools.
by Dan
Woog
- Homophobia in High School. - Challenging
Homophobia in Schools: A Critical Review. (Part of the web page: "Opposing
the Pro-Homosexuality Agenda" - High
schools' gay-straight clubs draw fire: Students join to fight antigay harassment,
while critics charge that school isn't the place for such groups. -
My
Queer Life: Prom Queen: As if teen years weren't hard enough, then comes
the prom. What's a gay kid to do? - Gay
Issues, Schools, and The Right-wing Backlash. - Gay students want help at historically black schools:
Anti-gay sentiments and homophobia long have plagued the gay and
lesbian community, but students and activists say that it's a different
ball game among historically black colleges and universities. Cultural
traditions, religious ties and previous racial oppression are among
numerous factors cited for a large discrepancy between treatment of
homosexuals at HBCUs and predominately white institutions.
The
GLSEN (Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network) "Safety Report Card"
ratings of major school districts in the United States. GLSEN: 2003 National School Climate Survey (on Gay Harassment). - Grading
Our Schools - homophobia (Last Article). (Related
Information) - From: "Growing
Up Gay: Are Schools Doing Enough to Support Gay Students?": "Eight
U.S. school districts received the highest grade of "A"... More than twenty
of the 42 large U.S. school districts received failing grades." What is
an "A"? "Everything is relative," Cimino told the Herald. "If you're
going to put it on a normal scale of what we should have, we're a D-. But
when we're compared to what's going on in other school districts, we're
an A." - Silence
is the Voice of Complicity: Addressing Homophobia in Schools (Abstract).
Young
, gay and homeless with few places to turn for help (Boston): "
They come from throughout New England and range from age 17-30. Outreach
workers say that up to 60 percent of them are either gay, bisexual or questioning
their sexual orientation. Social care providers estimate that between 5-20
percent of them are HIV-positive. Many have been kicked out of their homes
because they are gay, only to find themselves trapped in life on the street
where the only rules that apply are doing whatever it takes to survive:
even if it means selling their bodies in order to do so. Often times, these
street hustlers exchange sexual favors for drugs and alcohol..." - Young,
gay and homeless, with few places to turn (New York): "With just two
dozen beds available for gay, lesbian and transgendered youth, they endure
violence in the city's shelters, camp out in doorways in Harlem or pass
the night at a 24-hour Internet café, where some trawl the Web for
men who will pay for sex. ."You've got to do what you've got do to survive,"
says Murray, who has been a prostitute since he was 15... The number of
homeless teenagers is growing, Siciliano says, inadvertently fueled by
the identity-affirming pitch of gay rights advocates and the feel-good
wit of television shows like "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and "Will
and Grace," which encourage adolescents to declare their sexuality to parents,
who often respond by throwing them out..." - Homeless
Queer Youth: "Queer street youth may have difficulty accessing
services to obtain food, shelter, social services and medical attention.
When they are able to access these services, many queer youth find that
they do not adequately meet their needs. Physicians, mental health
professionals, and social workers often assume that the adolescents they
work with are heterosexual. Once a queer young person realizes that
this assumption has been made, s/he is unlikely to reveal that s/he is
gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. If the adolescent does not
reveal her/his sexual orientation, service providers may be unable to accurately
assess that individual’s needs and provide appropriate information and
services." - Study Examines Homeless Gay Youths.
Sleeping
on the street:Shout counts 1,000 homo kids [in Toronto]. - OUT
in the Cold examines the lives of homeless gay youth. - Homeless
Gay Youth: For Group of Young People, Village Piers Mean Home (New York).
- NYC
Faulted for Inaction on Homeless Gay Youth. (Related Information) - Are
we doing enough for GLBT youth, Newsletter, Spring 2001 N/A? - Growing
Up Gay: Are Schools Doing Enough to Support Gay Students? - 20/20
reports on homeless gay youth. (Related
information). - Homeless
gay youth kicked to the curb by movement: "Amazingly, out of approximately
70 press releases posted on NGLTF’s
Web site this year, only a handful are even related to gay youth and none
on the issue of homeless gay youth." (Alternate Link: Homeless
Youths: Kicked to the Curb by HRC and NGLTF) - NGLTF's 2007 Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth: An epidemic of homelessness (PDF Dowload). - Homeless
LGBT Youth and LGBT Youth in Foster Care (The Safe Schools Coalition).
Gay
youths find safe haven in temporary housing program (Rosalind Bentley,
Star Tribune, January 22, 2002): "It all became too much and she called
her high school counselor for help. Many phone calls and much paperwork
later, Kate, (who asked that we not publish her last name,) found herself
in the Twin Cities Host Home Program, an alternative care program for gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender youths who are homeless or living in
untenable situations." - Shelter
for Young Gays Gets an OK. - Helping
Homeless Lesbian and Gay Teenagers UK. - School
of Hard Knocks (Australia). - Another
Black Experience: Gay Daddy: "The piers are gone now. AIDS decimated
a generation, and is now hitting another hard, particularly young gay black
men, who are being infected at the same epidemic rate as Africans. I asked
Al if he thought more funding would help, and he sneered, "Not until the
black community confronts homophobia head on. Not as long as parents throw
their kids away." Al tries to redeem them, but for young gay black and
Latino kids, not enough has changed." - Homeless
Sexual Minorities at Greater Risk for Violence, Mental Illness, Substance
Abuse (PubMed
Abstract) - Foster
care needs to nurture gay kids N/A - by Deb Price, Dec. 2000, Detroit
News). - Fact
Sheet on LGBT Youth Health Needs and Issues, which schools presently fail
to address. - Albert
Kennedy Trust: U.K. organization helping homeless lesbian & gay
teenagers. - Background
on Gay Youth in Social Service Settings: Youth in social service settings
are already more vulnerable than other youth. - Factors
specific to GLBT Youth.
We
Don't Exactly et the Welcome Wagon: The Experiences of Gay and Lesbian
Adolescents in Child Welfare - 1998 - by Gerald Mallon (Review).
- Lambda
Takes on the Foster Care System (2001): "The incidents are almost
too painful to imagine. A lesbian teenager was sexually assaulted in a
group facility by a staff member who challenged her sexual orientation.
A gay youth was severely beaten by eight fellow group home residents while
staff ignored his screams. Another was forced by his foster family to undergo
“conversion therapy.” The nightmarish anecdotes go on and on. They are
devastating stories, of young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender, trapped in a foster care system that often refuses to give
protection, support, or even acknowledgment of their very existence." -
Class-Action
Suit Filed on Behalf of Gay Teens N/A (1999): "A Federal class-action lawsuit
was filed Friday on behalf of gay and lesbian teens in New York City's
foster care system, alleging their sexual orientation routinely exposes
them to physical violence and psychological abuse." - Suit
Alleges Frequent Abuse of Gay Children in Foster Care. - Task Force to End Homophobia in Foster Care Unveils New Anti-Bias Tool And Recommendations. - Gay
Youth Struggle in Troubled Foster Care System; ACLU and Others Push for
Change N/A: "...its recommendations on how to address the issue of
homophobia in the foster care system.
Gay
foster children face harassment:
At the boys' homes he was sent to, he was repeatedly taunted for being
effeminate. He couldn't tell staff members; they never asked. But because
of his depression and the stress over hiding his orientation, Prozac entered
his life, as did thoughts of suicide." - The
Adolescent Alone The Experience of Loss and Depression. - Ban
Discrimination in Foster Care. - Fostering
shortage met by gay couples. - Overview
of lesbian and gay parenting, adoption and foster care. - The
Social Worker's Dilemma: "The debate goes on and will continue as long
as there are conflicting views about homosexuality. Considering these different
views, should social workers place children with gay men or lesbians? To
make the best placement decision for children, social workers need to answer
the following questions:..." - The
Influence of Competing Ideologies About Homosexuality on Nondiscrimination
Policy: Implications for Social Work Education.
Summary:
GLBT issues in some American public schools. - Just
the Facts: On Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students and Schools (GLSTN).
- Young gay men
talking: school experiences. - Exploring
the plight of gay youth. - Teacher
talk: "you fag..." - "Over
80% of schools report homophobic verbal bullying according to
Playing
it Safe, the first-ever report on this issue..." - Bullying
and Sexual Harassment in Schools. - Safe
Schools Are For Everyone - SSAFE. - National
Association of School Psychologists: Position Statement on Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (GLBTQ) Youth (formerly
Sexual Minority Youth).. - Gay
Teens Ignored by High School Sex Ed Classes. - If
you only knew. - Touring
Play Confronts Teenage Homophobia. - Suicide and Homosexual Teens:
What can biology teachers do to help? (American Biology Teacher, March,
2001: Full
Text) (Abstract).
Vulnerability to Violence Among Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth. - Making School Safe for Sexual Minority Students. - Sticks and Stones:
"Imagine yourself at 15, trapped for six hours every day at school
dealing with the comments, the shoves, the beatings, and the vandalism.
This is school, where life is lived in fear and isolation. At home,
your parents make jokes about gay people on TV. On Sunday, your
minister says you are an abomination. You can’t date, tell your
friends, or express your feelings for another human. “Faggot.”
“Dyke.” School-aged children hear these derogatory, discriminatory
remarks every day. Even “that’s so gay,” innocent as it may sound,
harms by association. After all, “gay” is no longer synonymous with
“happy,” and “that’s so gay” is hardly a compliment."
Siecus
Report (Vol 29, No. 4, 2001): Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and
Questioning Youth: This
SIECUS
Fact Sheet reviews research on sexual orientation during adolescence
and presents the available statistics on lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender (LGBT) students. Many of the studies are regional or local.
Much of the research focuses on samples of LGBT youth that are disproportionately
at risk. - This
annotated bibliography presents a cross section of available resources
on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender sexuality and related issues.
Readers are encouraged to seek out additional resources in bookstores and
libraries and by contacting the organizations listed at the end of this
bibliography. - Homophobic
Attacks on Schools and Libraries.
Release
of 2003 National School Climate Survey Sheds New Light on the Experiences
of LGBT Students in America’s Schools: "At the same time, more
than 4 out of 5 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students
report being verbally, sexually or physically harassed at school because
of their sexual orientation. “This year’s findings clearly demonstrate
that despite modest measurable gains, violence, bias and harassment of
LGBT students continues to be the rule, not the exception, in America’s
schools,” said GLSEN Executive Director Kevin Jennings. “This research
reveals what must be inherent to so many educators and parents: harassment
has a negative impact on LGBT students’ academic performance and college
ambitions. To ignore these numbers is an irresponsible message to all students
that any promise of equal access to education remains forged and fictitious.” - GLSEN's
2005 National School Climate Survey Sheds New Light on Experiences of
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Students: "75.4%
of students heard derogatory remarks such as "faggot" or "dyke"
frequently or often at school, and nearly nine out of ten (89.2%)
reported hearing "that's so gay" or "you're so gay" - meaning stupid or
worthless- frequently or often." - 2003 National School Climate Survey: Profile of LGBT Youth
in Wisconsin (PDF
Download). The 2001 National
School Climate Survey by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network Summary (PDF
Download).
The
Risks of Being a Gay Teenager:
Consider this quote taken from a 16 year-old gay teen’s journal: "I can’t
let anyone find out I’m not straight. It would be so humiliating. My friends
would hate me, I just know it. I’ve heard my parents lots of time talking
about gay people. They’ve said they hate gays, and even God hates gays.
It really scares me now, when I hear my family talk that way, because now
they’re talking about me... Sometimes I feel like disappearing off the
face of the earth." Three years later, the writer of this passage killed
himself by jumping from an overpass into the path of an on-coming truck.
What’s so upsetting, however, is that this passage could have come from
the journal of almost any randomly-selected gay teenager. - Students
Protest Anti - Gay Bias. - Kids
not the only source of harassment in school: It's not easy being gay in
the nation's high schools, according to a national survey that assigns
some of the blame to teachers and administrators.
Should
Harassment Policies List Specific Forms Of Prohibited Harassment? - Two
commentators on the subject N/A. "Yesterday [Aug. 1999], Maryland State
officials caved in to pressure. They dropped from their anti-harassment
proposal to the state Board of Education the language that would have explicitly
prohibited, among other things, orientation-based harassment." - Why
We Need to Address Gay Issues In Our Schools. (From "Breaking the Silence"
available as PDF
Download) - School
Boards Liable for Homophobic Harassment [in Ontario]. - NCCJ’s
Straight Talk About Gay Issues. - L'homophobie
à l'école : en parler et agir. - Famille et qualité de vie gais et lesbiennes: Homophobie à l’école. - La
prévention du suicide et les problématiques des jeunes homosexuels
en milieu scolaire : Un aperçu des initiatives de la Commission
scolaire de Montréal (Must Scroll). - Un
nouveau document aborde la question de l'homophobie et de l'hétérosexisme
dans les communautés, les écoles et les salles de classe.: Apercevoir l'arc-en-ciel (PDF Download).
- Famille
et qualité de vie gais et lesbiennes: Homophobie à l’école.
Breaking The Boys Code: An Exploration of Bullying Behaviour. - Forcing boys to be boys: the persecution of gender non-conforming youth (Bibliography). - Boys and violence in schools: everybody’s business (Word Download). - Violence experts warn that many boys are getting the wrong message. What About the Boys? & Safe Boys, Safe Schools (PDF Download). - Miles of Aisles of Sexism:
""You sure wouldn't know our society has experienced almost 40 years of
significant changes in the area of gender equity in education after a
trip to the mall... When young boys engage in dress up, pile on the
necklaces, enjoy painting their nails or select other girl toys,
cultural norms or homophobia often correct the behavior immediately. In
fact, in Fisher Price Playlab studies where staff members observed
children behind one-way glass, they found that boys will play with
"girl" toys if they think they are in a safe environment..." - The tyranny of surveillance: male teachers and the policing of masculinities in a single sex school.
Our
Kind: 'We all knew that Ken was a "faggot."' - Growing
Up Normal In A Perfect World: A report on how most males are 'recruited'
to abuse (includes shunning) known or suspected 'gay' adolescents.
- The
‘Faggot’ Factor: The chickens came home to roost at Columbine High
(Orange County Weekly, 1999) (Alternate
Link). -
"Boys
Will Be Boys": How "masculinity" in American culture affects safety in
our schools N/A. - The
rumor that won't go away: "Whatever the truth about Harris and Klebold's
sexual orientation, it's clear that "gay" is one of the worst epithets
to use against a high school student in Littleton."
Columbine
High School: "But parents and politicians both shy away from
the major cause of April 20th’s shooting spree: the cruelty of children
and the oppressiveness of the high school caste system in the United States."
- Other
side of Littleton story: anti-oddball hysteria. - Goths
are dressed to kill: Every outsider gets called a fag. (Alternate
Link) - The
Price of Being Different: "Thousands of powerful e-mail messages
have chronicled an educational system that glorifies the traditional and
the normal, and brutalizes and alienates people who are or who are perceived
as different..."(Alternate
Link). - Teens
Urge States to Protect Gay, Lesbian Students. - Why did the Columbine shooting happen:
" School "jocks" repeatedly harassed Harris and Klebold, calling them
"faggots." However, in high school culture, the term "faggot" does not
necessarily mean that the victim is perceived as gay; it is a generic
term of hatred and derision." - Faggot = Loser.
‘Boy-code’ a factor in fatal school shootings? Gay Experts say masculinity standards overlooked in search for answers:
"The perpetrators of random school shootings since 1982, all boys, were
“overconformists” to the popular notion that being a “real man” means
aggressively defending your manhood when it is challenged, such as
through prolonged bullying, said Michael Kimmel..." - Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence:
"Since 1982, there have been 28 cases of random school shootings in
American high schools and middle schools. The authors find (a) that the
shootings were not a national problem but a series of local problems
that occurred in "red states" or counties (places that voted Republican
in the 2000 election); (b) that most of the boys who opened fire were
mercilessly and routinely teased and bullied and that their violence
was retaliatory against the threats to manhood; (c) that White boys in
particular might be more likely than African American boys to randomly
open fire; and (d) that the specific content of the teasing and
bullying is homophobia.,,"
Young R, Sweeting
H, West P (2006). Prevalence of deliberate self harm and attempted
suicide within contemporary Goth youth subculture: longitudinal cohort
study. BMJ, 6;332(7549): 1058-61. Epub 2006 Apr 13. PubMed Abstract. Full Text. Commentaries: "Self harm in Goth youth subculture: Conclusion relates only to small sample." - "Self harm in Goth youth subculture: Study merely reinforces popular stereotypes." - Other Responses. - Goth subculture may protect vulnerable children. - Related Comments: "While I was never a self-harmer, I was definitely suicidal as a
teenager, and have had suicidal tendencies throughout my whole life up
until today... While I guess being goth reflected my depression, it didn't abate or
help it after becoming goth, as the study suggests it did for
self-harmers." "What is Goth? ...the
goth scene has a large proportion of gays/bisexuals, and followers of
non-mainstream religions and views..." - GayGothBoys.Tribe.Net: "
A
History of homophobis abuses (including by teachers): The
debate over gay rights is never more heated than when it has to do with
school. - A University Professor's early life of abuse in school:
Three parts - Part
6 - Part
7 - Part
8. - I
Was A Gay High School Student. - Why
is it so hard to say "gay"?! The word is freely substituted for "bad" by
high school nimrods and rarely refuted. - "Quest for Excellence" portrays
this struggle in "Gay
Teens in School," showing what these students go through, and issues
a plea for awareness that could save the lives of many teenagers (A television
documentary). - Hostile
Classrooms: A Novato, CA, student was beaten in February when he told
other students that he was gay. (The Advocate, April 13 1999 by Lisa Meyer).
- School
life tough for gay teens. (Wisconsin State Journal, 2000) - This
essay is about homophobia in my school.
A
Few Angry Words From My Mind (Alternate Link): "At this school we do NOT support
free thinkers. We are hidden under a cloud of obliviousness. Half
the people in my school are unaware of what is really going on. They
are too busy being concerned with the petty goings-on of being teenagers.
They are struggling soo hard just to be accepted and to fit in with
the "norm". They don't realize that what they're really doing is
following their peers blindly and without a thought. Most of us are one
big sheep flock. Those few who have broken away from peers their age are
usually the ones who are actually being harassed. I think we
stick in the safety of this cloning here because we are afraid we
will be harassed if we show any differences, which is why there's
such a big problem with racism and homophobia at my school." - "I
went to high school in semi-rural texas. this was a time and a place
where being gay wasn't exactly tolerated very well. I don't mention this
because I was a gay high school student, but for reasons which will become
apparent later. my freshman year of high school, I made a mistake.."
Homosexuality
and body image issues: teacher awareness: "This paper explores
the understanding of sexuality and body image in schools by heterosexual
and homosexual teachers... The marginalisation of students who are perceived
to be homosexual or whose body shape or mannerisms do not conform to the
norm is evidenced as bullying and alienation, so the implications of this
research have relevence for all schools. Exerpts from interviews with gay
and lesbian teachers is included for analysis."
"Protection
of lesgay students," with info resources. - Teachers
must stop kids from targeting their gay classmates. - Gay
Initiative Hopes to Halt Teacher Indifference (1997).- Gay
kids need more than court orders N/A. - More
Gay Teachers Coming out, but Not without Controversy - AP 06 Apr, 98.
(Related Item: Homosexual
Teachers The Focus of Debate - Students
React to Teachers Coming Out. - Students
React to Teachers Coming Out. - Where
Are the Civil Rights for Gay and Lesbian Teachers? - CNN Interview
(2002): "As your kids head back to school, do you know what their
teachers are telling them? Is it appropriate for their teachers to talk
about their own personal lives, specifically if they have a girlfriend
or a boyfriend who happens to be the same sex? One school district in
California wrestled with the issue, ultimately passing a resolution
allowing teachers to discuss their sexual orientation in class. But
some parents in the Hayward School District believe that that has
created a "Crisis in the Classroom."
Gay
teens finding more support amid hostile school hallways (CNN).
- When
Kids Come Out of The Closet: What to say and do when a student tells
you he's gay. - Anti-Homophobia
Education in a Catholic Context. - Cultural
diversity: managing same-sex orientation in the classroom.- Lesbian
and Gay Studies for Toronto [public school] Staff. - Toronto
Schools Ban Discrimination. - Under Attack: Emotional Abuse and Violence Against GLBT Youth in America’s Homes and Public Schools.
From
ERIC's Cultural Diversity Resources: - Raising
Gay/Lesbian Issues in the Classroom. (PDF
Download) - Improving
the School Experience for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students. (PDF Download) -
Sexual
Minorities on Community College Campuses. - What
You Can Do: Ideas and Resources for Educators. - Working to End Homophobia
in Schools. - Just
the Facts: On Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students and Schools. - Just
the Facts: Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators,
and School Personnel (PDF
Dowmload). - Adolescents
and AIDS. - Adolescents and AIDS: A Generation in Jeopardy. - Adolescents and HIV/AIDS (2002).
The
Truth About Gay and Lesbian Issues in the [American] Public Schools: Congressional
Hearing - Public
School Programs with the focus on San Francisco, California; Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; The State of Washington; St. Paul, Minnesota. - A
Response to Allegations Made by Traditional Values Coalition
with a focus on Los Angeles; National Education Association; Fairfax County,
Virginia Family Life Education; Des Moines, Iowa; Massachusetts; The State
of Minnesota.
The
"It's Elementary: Talking about gay issues in school" 1996 Video: -
Film
Information. - Synopsis.
Video
"is a highly acclaimed film shot in first through eighth grade classrooms
across the United States". - It's
Elementary is a window into how teachers and school administrators
can find age-appropriate, sensitive ways to teach children respect for
all people, including gays and lesbians. - Review:
It's Elementary: It's Slick, It's Alarming. - Negative
Review. - It's
Elementary: Promoting Homosexuality to Children. - Talking about homosexuality in the schools. - A
Catholic Perspective. - Support
for Instruction about Homosexuality in South Carolina Public Schools.
- Issues
in Education: What Heterosexual Teachers Need to Know about Homosexuality.
- A
Door Half Open: Young People's Access to Fiction Related to Homosexuality.
Association
for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues in Counseling: - Infusing
Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Issues into Counselor Preparation Programs.
- Gloria
as a Lesbian: A Revisitation of “Three Approaches to Psychotherapy.”
- The
Relationship between Gay and Lesbian Identity Development and Psychological
Adjustment. - A
Support Group for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Questioning Youth:
A High School-Based Approach. - Advocating
for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Persons: Overcoming Barriers
and Resistances. - Counseling
Issues With Sexual Minorities: An Invisible Minority School. Population.
- School
Counselors and Sexual Minority Students. - Competencies
for Counseling Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered (GLBT) Clients.
- AGLBIC
Newletter.. - Sexual Minority Youth in the Schools: Issues and Desirable Counselor Responses (PDF Download). - The Elephant In The Locker Room: UNH Professor Examines Homophobia In Collegiate Sports.
American
School Health Association - Compendium
of Resolutions: Gay
and Lesbian Youth in School. " the Association believes: 1) that all
young persons should have an equal opportunity for quality education regardless
of their sexual orientation; 2) that curriculum materials, teaching
strategies, and school policies that do not discriminate on the basis of
sexual orientation should be implemented in schools; 3) that sexual
orientation should be addressed in the sexuality component of a comprehensive
health instruction curriculum; 4) that school personnel should discourage
any sexually oriented deprecating, harassing, and prejudicial statements
injurious to students' self-esteem; and 5) that every school district
should provide access to professional counseling by specially trained personnel
for students who may be concerned about sexual orientation." - Toward
Understanding Homosexuality: An Agenda for Adult Christian Education's
Contribution to Human Wholeness.
Hatred
in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
and Transgerder Students in U.S. Schools (by Human
Rights Watch): "To the more than two million lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender youth of school age living in the United States and to
those who are questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity,
Dylan N.'s story is all too familiar. It is a story of harassment, abuse,
and violence; a story of deliberate indifference by school officials who
disclaim any responsibility for protecting Dylan or ensuring his right
to an education; a story of escalating violence; a story of the failure
of legal protection; and finally, a story of a young man denied an education
because of his sexual orientation. In this report, Human Rights Watch documents
attacks on the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
youth who are subjected to abuse on a daily basis by their peers and in
some cases by teachers and school administrators. These violations are
compounded by the failure of federal, state, and local governments to enact
laws providing students with express protection from discrimination and
violence based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, effectively
allowing school officials to ignore violations of these students' rights.
Gay youth spend an inordinate amount of energy plotting how to get safely
to and from school, how to avoid the hallways when other students are present
so they can avoid slurs and shoves, how to cut gym class to escape being
beaten up-in short, how to become invisible so they will not be verbally
and physically attacked. Too often, students have little energy left to
learn." (U.S.
Gets "Failing Grade" Protecting Gay Students Widespread Bullying, Teacher
Indifference in U.S. Schools.) - Report
Says Schools Often Ignore Harassment of Gay Students (Must Register).
- ABCNEWS.com
: Abuse of Gay Students Rampant, Study Finds. - Protecting
Students from Harassment and Hate Crime: A Guide for Schools (U.S.
Department of Education, 1999).
Hostile
Hallways: Bullying, Teasing, and Sexual Harassment in School (2001):
"Sexual Harassment Widespread in Nation’s Schools, New AAUW Report Finds.
"Four of five students—boys and girls—report that they have experienced
some type of sexual harassment in school, despite a greater awareness of
school policies dealing with the issue, according to a new report, Hostile
Hallways: Bullying, Teasing, and Sexual Harassment in School by the American
Association of University Women Educational Foundation.... According to
the report, based on a national survey of 2,064 public school students
in 8th through 11th grades conducted by Harris Interactive: ...Actions
hurt but so do words. When given 14 examples of non-physical and physical
harassment, students say they would be very upset if someone did the following:
(3) Said that they were gay or lesbian (73%).... Boys are more likely than
girls to report non-physical harassment in locker rooms (28% v. 15%) or
restrooms (15% to 9%)." - Teasing
and bullying: What can pediatricians do? (Contemporary Pediatrics,
2003): Homosexiality issues are ignored in this paper. - School of hard knocks. -School of hard knocks: education of gays and lesbians in the future.
Hostile
Hallways: The AAUW Survey on Sexual Harassment in American's Public Schools:
"With regard to actual experience, there was a marked increase in the percentage
of students being called gay or lesbian: 17% of all students in 1993 reported
that they have been called gay or lesbian compared to 36% of all students
in 2001. Boys today were more than two times likelier to say that they
have been called gay or lesbian often or occasionally (9% in 1993 vs. 19%
in 2001) and girls today were nearly three times likelier to have been
called gay or lesbian (5% in 1993 vs. 13% in 2001). In both years, more
boys reported having been called gay or lesbian than did girls: in 1993,
23% of boys vs. 10% of girls and in 2001, 19% of boys vs. 13% of girls."
- GLSEN
Troubled By New Report Saying Sexual Harassment A Problem for Most Students:
"In 2001, 80% of students report having experienced sexual harassment at
least once, and 25% saying they are sexually harassed often. Similar results
were found in Hatred in the Hallways, a study by Human Rights Watch on
the humans rights abuses against LGBT students. "We’re seeing a trend that
sexual harassment is at record levels for LGBT students, with lesbian and
bisexual young women being especially targeted," added Jennings. "The often
sexual nature of anti-gay harassment can no longer be ignored, neither
by schools nor policymakers."
Wellstone
Calls for [Federal] Study on School Harassment of Gay and Lesbian Youth: (Washington, D.C.,
2001) - "Citing increasing evidence of harassment of gay and lesbian students
in America's schools, Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) today announced legislation
to conduct a federal study on the level of sexual harassment against gay
and lesbian students by peers and school officials in schools. In 1997,
the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education issued guidelines
specifically stating that gay and lesbian students across America have
the right to a school environment free of harassment and abuse. Despite
these guidelines, two studies in recent months have found evidence of widespread
harassment of gay and lesbian students nationwide."
Teaching
Homosexuality in Public Schools: "The Christian position is clear:
Homosexuality is an abomination, and we do not teach "tolerance" of a perverse
criminal behavior, any more than we would teach "tolerance" of child abuse,
pedophilia, rape, murder, cocaine dealing or embezzlement." - Anti-GLSEN
Web Site.
Practice
Update from the National Association of Social Workers: Promoting Positive
School Environments For Lesbian, Gay, And Bisexual Students: Survey Findings.
"As social workers know, adolescence can be a challenging time for many
young people. Recent studies confirm, however, that adolescence can be
a particularly hard time for youths that either identify as gay, lesbian,
or bisexual or are youths questioning their feelings of same-sex attraction
or desire for same-sex behavior (Reid & Tomaszewski, 2001). Lesbian,
gay, and bisexual (LGB) youths experience health and mental health concerns
similar to their heterosexual peers, while also having to deal with the
additional stressors of being identified as a sexual minority youth (stressors
such as social isolation and stigma). (Ryan, 2001). Research has shown
that, as a group, LGB youths appear to be at increased risk of a large
number of health and mental health outcomes. For example..." (PDF
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New
Hampshire: - New Hampshire Passes School Safety Bill. - Teen
Lesbian Couple in New Hampshire Named "Class Sweethearts". (Anti-gay
activists plan to picket at high school Protest is against lesbian couple.) - Lesbian kiss upsets US high school.
Vermont:
-
Causes
of Youth Violence. - Homosexuality Education in Vermont Public Schools
(PDF
Download). - Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth in Vermont Schools.
Rhode
Island: -
Creating
safe schools for GLBT students. - Rhode
Island: Still a tough life for gay students N/S.
Washington
State: - The
Safe Schools Coalition. The mission of The Safe Schools Coalition:
A Public-Private Partnership in Support of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Youth is to help schools - at home and all over the world - become safe
places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and
where every child can learn, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation. - Director
of Public Health speaks out against anti-gay violence.
Politicians
should use bully pulpit (2001): "a group of conservatives has targeted
the [anti-harassment in schools] bill, believing that if, in the process
of preventing harassment, it protects gay and lesbian students from being
called queers, then it is a gay-rights measure. So the bill is now on life
support..." - Phony
fears and bullies. - High school students forge a gay-straight bond: Youths believe diversity should include sexual minorities.
Massachusetts:
- All
Reports From the Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth available online. - List of Report from hte Comission. -The
Executive Order that created the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian
Youth.
- The Safe Schools Program for Gay & Lesbian Students. - Massachusetts:
1995 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Results. - Youth
Risk behavior Survey Results - 1997 - Table of Contents. - Gay
/ Straight Alliances: A student's Guide. - The
Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth: Related Articles. Problems?
- Few
schools offer support to gay students (1997): some positive results
in student attitude survey. - More
gay bias reported at school: 161 attacks were reported last year. - Despite
receiving high marks for having policies to protect gay students and teachers
from harassment, Boston Public Schools fail to provide a safe learning
environment. - Trans
inclusion a gray area for Boston schools N/A. - Massachusetts High School to Celebrate"Transgender, Gay Day". - "Transgender Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day" at a Massachusetts High School - major propaganda at taxpayers' expense. - Greater Boston PFLAG's Safe Schools & Communities Project.
Parents rip school over gay storybook: Lesson reignites clash in Lexington. - Exploring the experiences of gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents in school: Lessons for school psychologists
(PHD Dissertation by Marjorie Cooper-Nicols): Participants in this
study consisted of 13 GLB youth between the ages of 15 and 18 who were
members of Project 10 East, a community GLB youth organization serving
the Boston, Massachusetts area... Other key findings include: (1)
anti-discrimination policies were not clearly enforced in the schools;
(2) GLB youth interviewees developed strengths; and (3) participants
did not perceive school psychologists as assisting GLB youth.
Implications for GLB youth in schools are discussed, and
recommendations for school psychologists at the individual practice and
school policy levels are highlighted. - Film shows struggle to form gay alliance.
Homosexuality
Will Massachusetts Listen? - From Sept. 2, 1999 Associated
Press Article "Governor's commission calls on ed board to protect gay
kids": ""The commission believes that nearly a third of the state's
public schools are not including gay and lesbian students in anti-harassment
and anti-discrimination policies." (Related
Boston Herald Article) - Mass.
Stance on Anti-Gay Bias In Schools Stirring Debate (Must Register, Free):
"The new regulations call for schools to undertake "active efforts" to
prevent discrimination, by training staff members and responding promptly
to harassment when it occurs. School handbooks and codes of conduct are
to be brought up to date to reflect the ban on discrimination based
on sexual orientation." - Massachusetts Schools Weigh Gay Topics. - Massachusetts High School Students and Sexual Orientation Results (2005). - Massachusetts Study Shows High Suicide Rate for Gay. - Anti-gay bigots plan "Day of Defiance" in several Massachusetts High Schools. - Principal bans parents from pro-'gay' seminar.
California:
- SAUSD
Gay and Lesbian Education Commission (GLEC) (Eliminated?).
- The
Los Angeles Project 10 Handbook (abstract). - Project
10 L.A. - Petaluma
Educators Get Lesson in Gay Awareness. - Related
debate & a suicide. - Rampant
homophobia and 'racism' at San Ramon Valley High School - 1998).
(Related
Item 1998: "Students at San Ramon Valley High School in Danville, California
forced officials to take down a display glorifying the homosexual "lifestyle"
erected in the school's corridor. The exhibit was spat upon by students
who yelled anti-homosexual slogans when they passed the glass-enclosed
case. One youngster had circulated a petition demanding the display be
sacked. He also distributed Straight Pride T-shirts which teens, in large
numbers, wore.") - Teacher
Gets Thousands Of Threatening Anti-Gay Emails. - School Safety &
Violence Prevention for LGBT Students (PDF
Download). - Fear of a Gay School:
El Modena High has a nickname. Students at neighboring schools in
Orange County, Calif., call it "Homo-dena," spitting out the syllables
with all the cruelty and attitude that high school rivalry can
disgorge. And a battle is being joined in El Modena, a battle over the
right to form a student club on campus similar to ones that have become
increasingly popular and controversial nationwide. - Do Schools Condone Harassment of Gay Students? - Raising Awareness Of Gay Harassment In Schools.
The
CTA (California Teachers' Association) Training Program - "Gay and Lesbian
Youth: Breaking the Silence. - School's
Gay Club Provokes Backlash - Ads
Attack Bill Outlawing Gay Bias in Schools. - California
governor signs gay rights bill - 1999: "AB 537, prohibiting discrimination
and harassment of public school students who are perceived to be gay or
lesbian, was originally defeated by one vote in June in the state legislature,
but was re-introduced and passed by the assembly in September... 'I have
seen many incidents of anti-gay mistreatment in schools.' he said. UCLA,
as well as the Los Angeles Unified School District, already include sexual
orientation in their anti-discrimination policies." - NCLR
- LGBT Students In California Public Schools. - ACLU
Sues Rural California School for Anti-Gay Climate; Case Highlights National
Epidemic in Rural Schools. - California
Must Meet Commitment to Gay Youth. - Gay
Teens Fight Back. - Scotts Valley Parents Protest Gay Tolerance. -
A
highly positive pro-gay/lesbian program at a San Jose's Lincoln High School.
Largest
Ever Study of Anti-Gay Harassment in Schools Shows the Problem is Widespread,
Dangerous and Preventable: Study Proving That Schools Can Take
Steps to Improve Student Safety Has National Implications for Addressing
Harassment on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. (California
Safe Schools Coalition). - Make
schools safe havens for gay students. - Study Finds Anti-Gay Harassment
in Schools Rampant. - Gay youth become movement's newest ambassadors as they lobby to stop discrimination. - Schools Cannot 'Out' Gay Students, Federal Judge Rules: Teen can sue district for revealing her sexual orientation to her mother. - 'So Gay' Phrase Lands Santa Rosa Schools In Court. - School works to eliminate 'gay' as offensive taunt.
Gay high school students increasingly using the courts; Unlikely allies seek another way:
Gay high school students in California are increasingly using the
courts and political activism to counter individual acts of
discrimination and to promote tolerance. The moves, educators and legal
experts say, come at a time of exponential growth of gay student clubs
and an acceptance of homosexuality on high school campuses that would
have been unheard of a decade ago. "It's a reflection of the students'
desire to not just not be beat up, but to actually have full equality,"
says Carolyn Laub, executive director of the Gay Straight Alliance
Network (GSAN). - Davis Student Fears More Harassment:
It all happened at Harper Junior High. A student of gay parents has
been harassed and called names. His parents say their car was torched
and now they're threatening a lawsuit against the school if it doesn't
take the anti-gay harassment more seriously. Harper Junior High School
student, Zack, hasn't been to school in almost a month. He says after
years of being teased because his father is gay, one day, it went too
far.
Parent Services Project: The release of our groundbreaking new early childhood curriculum, Making Room in the Circle: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Families in Early Childhood Education.
This curriculum has been developed to assist early childhood providers
to create welcoming, high-quality environments that actively engage
LGBT families, and diminish the silence, taboo and bias that target
LGBT families and harm all children. - Overview. - Curricuum. - Berkeley: Gay Friendly Schools. - Outrage over San Diego school's involvement in 'gay pride' parade.
New
York: - Homosexuality
and the schools. - School
for Gay Students Nixed. - Gay
Public High School to Open Doors This Fall. - No
gay school on Long Island. - School
Debate: Teach Gay Issues? "Most people don't know it, but October is
officially designated Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual Heritage and History Month in
School District 2 in Manhattan." - The
Liverpool High School Gay/Straight Alliance. - Creating
A Safe Environment Where Gay and Lesbian High School Students Can Seek
Support: "More schools are offering counseling for teenagers, but by
many accounts gay and lesbian students are among the least likely to receive
those services." - High
school: A gay old time. - Expanded
gay high school becomes lightning rod. - First public gay high school to open in NYC. - The Harvey Milk School Has No Right to Exist. Discuss.
Connecticut:
- Connecticut
Bans Anti-Gay Discrimination in its Schools N/A. - Lesbians'
Firings Fuels Outrage. - Gay youth revolution - my perspective. - Gay Student Advocates Speak School Board Hears Of Name-Calling, Violence, Teacher Reactions:
High school students who say they have been harassed and beaten up for
being gay or befriending gay or lesbian students asked the school board
Tuesday to take strong action to defend them in the schools. Speaking
during the public comment portion of the school board meeting, students
and adult advocates complained of name-calling and violence by other
students. They accused teachers of sometimes suggesting that students
who are victimized should consider dropping out and getting an
alternative degree.
New
Jersey: - New
Jersey Governor Signs GLBT-Inclusive Safe School Legislation. - New
Jersey High School Library Creates Homosexual Section. - New Jersey Schools Told to Protect Gay Students. - Students Protest Discrimination in Schools - Silently.
Maryland: - Md. schools pull young-adult novel:
After receiving complaints from about 40 parents, a Maryland school
district has pulled a young-adult novel from its curriculum, in part
because of its references to homosexuality. - Gay Friendly: Students and Teachers in City Schools Combat Anti-Gay Discrimination by Forming Gay-Straight Alliances.
Illinois:
- Illinois Safe Schools Alliance. Bully
pulpit: Forum takes on school toughs. - Lesbian
student couple signals school change. - Kate
Bornstein Urges Reversal of 'Bully Culture'. - Principal
Gives High Heels on Boys the Boot. - The
Coalition for education on sexual orientation. - Hostile
Climate: DuPage County: Parent, anonymous flyer complain about gay subject
matter in classroom. - Chicago
GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network). - Chicago Students Stand Up for Gay Equality. - Judge OKs school ban of anti-gay T-shirt.
Gay penguins have a place in school libraries?
"A picture book about two male penguins raising a baby penguin is
getting a chilly reception among some parents who worry about the
book’s availability to children — and the reluctance of school
administrators to restrict access to it."
Indiana: - Tension at high school over gay rights: Tensions over a Day of Silence in support of gay rights led to a lockdown at New Castle Chrysler High School. - Tension Over Gay Rights Rally Leads To School Lockdown: Rumors Of School Threat Prompt Lockdown.
Washington,
D.C.: Summersgill
urges school policy on student harassment. - Malek
Calls for Action on Student Harassment Policy. - Help
Metro DC PFLAG make schools safe for all students.
Texas:
- The
Walt Whitman Community School of Dallas. - Walt
Whitman high point: a Dallas school for gay students was on its last leg
when MTV taped the new documentary School's Out, but now everything is
looking up. - School's Out: The Life of a Gay High School in Texas (2003) (TV). - Texas
School Cancels Counselor Training On Gay Youth. - Gay
Study: Students Live in Fear (2001): "Gay students in North Texas
speak out against the abuse they say they face in school. A new study calls
the harassment a violation of human rights. Texas gay and lesbian groups
are demanding that school leaders protect the students from verbal and
physical attacks." - HISD
May Protect Sexual Orientation in Student Code of Conduct. - Gay
Houston youth welcome new policy: Students who were subject to harassment
in area schools say prohibiting anti-gay comments and acts will help. - Anti-gay bias rages in Dallas schools: 16-year-old anti-discrimination policy not enforced; committee forms to demand its implementation.
Michigan:
- Schools
tackle the job of protection for gays: "Kids can be cruel. So
can teachers. Some people who wouldn't dream of using a racial epithet
think nothing of punctuating a joke with a limp wrist, pronouncing something
"soooo gay" or calling someone a faggot." - Gay
students struggle to cope with attitudes: "When Lana Madigan
was in ninth grade at Garden City High School her peers regularly yelled
"dyke" when they saw her walking to class... Seventy-eight percent of 104
principals who responded to the survey said there were no openly gay, lesbian
or bisexual students at their schools and 82 percent said they were not
aware of any antigay harassment." - State
requires schools to stop bullying: Policy could highly impact lgbt students:
"In an era characterized by school shootings, bullying, especially anti-gay
bullying, has received much attention as a result. According to the national
offices of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, in five of
the eight most recent school shootings the shooters were taunted as being
gay." - In Metro Detroit: -
Utah:
- Hostile Utah Parents Try to Force Gay Teachers into a Classroom Closet. - Students and Salt Lake City School Board End Feud over Gay-Supportive Clubs. - Homophobic Utah PTA Angry at PFLAG Ad. - Huntsman Signs 'Gay School Club' Bill Into Law.
Kentucky: - Kentucky Fried Homophobia:
This afternoon in Boyd County, Kentucky, a group of local ministers is
holding a rally to protest a decision by the local high school to allow
a gay-straight alliance to form. Last Monday, almost half the student
body stayed home from school to protest the decision.- Investigation under way in school divided over homosexual issue:
An English teacher in Kentucky is under investigation for showing her
students a clip of "Brokeback Mountain," the controversial film about a
homosexual relationship between two sheepherders. - Boone County High School in Northern Kentucky Approves Gay-Straight Alliance:
Under threat of being sued by the Kentucky Equality Association for
delaying the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance, Boone County High
School Official's give it a green light.
Iowa:
- For
some, school is a place to learn to be afraid. - GLSEN
Expresses Concern as Iowa School Postpones Disney Trip Due to "Gay Days".
- Gay
Students Deserve Protection. - The
GLBT Forum: Making Schools Safe for Gay, Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender
Youth. - Iowa
Schools Get LGBT Friendly. - Iowa
High School Students Protest Cancellation of Play. - GLSEN Hails Signing of Comprehensive Safe Schools Bill in Iowa.
Indiana:
- Policy
Not Enough to Curb Harassment in Local Schools: A report released
Friday by a local gay advocacy group charges that many area schools are
hostile climates for gay students... The Indiana Youth Group, a support
organization for gay teens, collected reports from more than 250 of its
members, ages 12 to 20, during the spring semester of 2001. The group found
that Tech and Broad Ripple high schools in Indianapolis Public Schools
lead the list for physical and verbal harassment from students... The complaints
include everything from anti-gay comments to physical assaults, said Rob
Connoley, director of the Indiana Youth Group. In almost all cases, students
did not report the incidents to school officials, fearing repercussions...
The report mirrors results of a national Human Rights Watch report released
in May that found that gay students are subjected to near-constant verbal
and physical bullying. School officials often look the other way, or even
encourage it, according to the report."
Wisconsin:
-
Jamie
Nabozny Wins Sexual Harassment Suit.- GLSEN
South Central Wisconsin: About GLSEN.. - Homosexual
teacher loses appeal in taunting suit: " A veteran teacher who
sued his bosses because children taunted him after he declared himself
a homosexual has lost his civil rights case in federal appeals court."
- Project
Kurt: Kurt Dyer’s committed efforts to create a support program for
young lesbians and gays in Milwaukee made the acclaimed Project Q youth
program a reality.
Colorado: - Gay Teen Attacked By Fellow High School Students: Centennial High School Student Must Undergo Surgery For Wounds. - Colorado Attack Illustrates Need for Schools to Address Anti-LGBT Bias, Behavior:
Days before the National Day of Silence, the brutal bias-based attack
by six Pueblo youth against a fellow Centennial High School student
last week because of his sexual orientation highlights a troubling and
far too common problem in our nation’s schools. The six students drove
past the 15-year-old several times as he walked home from school,
yelling anti-gay slurs at him. Eventually, one of the students got out
of the car and threw a Lysol can, breaking the 15-year-old’s nose and
causing enough damage to require surgery.
Oregon: - GLSEN Hails Defeat of Oregon's Anti-gay No. 9. - Oregon Gay Straight Alliance. - Homophobia at West Linn High School:
Brandon Flyte, a student at West Linn High School in West Linn, Oregon,
was recently expelled for airing a video project he had been assigned
in class which includes a same-sex "snuggle" scene. The film, Brokeback
High, is a "gay love story" based on themes from Brokeback Mountain,
but set in a modern day high school. The shot above was the one that
got him expelled.
Florida:
- Group
says bullying sparks school violence - Coalition for gays blames harassment
for recent problems. - Teens Urge States to Protect Gay, Lesbian Students:
Gay and lesbian teen-agers, frustrated by the harassment they get at
school, are asking their state legislators to step in and pass laws
that would do what their teachers and principals are failing to do:
protect them. - Gay
students, cross-dressers face resistance. - Clothes
Pose Question: Are Gay Students Safe? - High
school senior came 'out' - and was expelled. (Alternate
Link) - Judge rules high school club can meet pending outcome of lawsuit. - Gay-Straight Alliance can have club at school. - Judge Orders Florida School District To Allow Gay Club.
Pridelines Youth Services:
Dedicated to educate youth in a safe and nurturing environment and to
promote dialogue that results in positive development and social change.
Florida
school board vilifies gays. - Florida
Legislator Verbally Attacks Youth Lobbyists N/A: "God destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah, and he is going to destroy you and a lot of others." (Related
News Item). - Florida
Lawmaker's Attack on Gay Youths Criticized Widely. - Continuing
Fallout Plagues Florida Legislator. - Florida
Congressmen Apologize to Gay Students N/A.
Louisiana: - Boy says mom is gay; school rebukes him.
Georgia:
- Anti-gay bullying common in Ga. schools: Gay-straight alliances help students cope, studies show.
Virginia:
- Pressure Delays Fairfax, Virginia, 'Gay' School Policy. - Parents
Protest 'Homosexual Rights' in Virginia School District. - School district cancels gay author event. - Gay-Themed High School Play Sparks Va. Protests.
Missouri:
- ACLU Scolds Missouri High School for Censoring Gay Student. - Gay student sues school after he was disciplined for wearing T-shirts featuring gay pride messages.
Maine:
-
Gay
Issues: Maine schools fail GLSSEN test (July, 2004): "Maine’s schools
are failing miserably when it comes to protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender students — at least that’s what an exhaustive report from
the Washington, DC–based Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSSEN)
announced last week. They gave Maine and its pro-gay policies an "F," with
an overall score of 35 (nope, that’s not even close to passing), snuggling
the state at number 19 between Iowa and Virginia. However, there is a caveat
— 41 other states failed, too, and, says Betsy Smith, the executive director
of Equality Maine (formerly MLGPA), Maine would have gotten a better score
if GLSSEN hadn’t relied on dated data."
"Hawai`i's
schools, both public and private, are dangerous places for youths perceived
to be lesbian, gay or transgendered." - Hawaii
Paper's Commentary Urges Protections for Gay Youth. - Committee
sponsors first prom for gay high-schoolers. 'O
Au No Keia: Voices from Hawai'i's Mahu and Transgender Communities.
Alaska:
- Gay/Lesbian
Support Groups in High School: Possible community problems.
Canada:
Reaching
Out: A Report on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth Issues in Canada.
Prepared for the United Church of Canada by John Fisher, Executive Director,
EGALE, 1999. (Printer
Friendly Version) - EGALE's Safe Schools Campaign. - A
New Look at Homophobia and Heterosexism