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FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex (LGBTI) people Atralia still experience discrimatn, harassment and hostily many parts of everyday life; public, at work and study, accsg health and other servic and securg proper regnn of their sex official documents. Earlier this month, was revealed that Kev Donnelly, one of the men tasked wh reviewg Atralia’s natnal curriculum, had argued a 2004 book that “many parents” thk the “sexual practic” of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) dividuals are “cidly unnatural”. The Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Rearch Network highlights the impact on LGBT stunts’ liv of schools’ failure to keep them safe.
Rearch nducted 2009 wh nearly 200 parents om the Sydney regn revealed that 97% felt that homosexualy should be clud sexual health tn. By emphasisg the need to protect the victimised stunt and punish the bully, Amerin tn scholar Mollie Blackburn argu that we fail to addrs the systemic problem of homophobia.
The problematic nature of social and amic participatn school muni for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (LGBTQ) youth often volv how stigmatizg relatnal dynamics bee the domant narrative durg the pulsory years of schoolg Callgham, 2018. However, as attus and exprsns toward (homo)sexualy are beg creasgly fluenced by and nnected to wir disurs happeng beyond the school gat, the creased reprentatn of sexual inti the public doma suggts the signifince of popular culture peer cultur for providg teachable moments about LGBTQ liv. 161) not how, “It is wh culture that homosexual inti are formed, ” and as sexual diversy is creasgly ma visible mastream popular culture, the prence of LGBTQ inty, uld be argued, is creasgly queerg the quotidian.