The dark, disptive shadows of my time at Sts still trouble me. It’s about time the school told kids “’s OK to be gay”." name="scriptn
Contents:
- THE FIRST STS COLLEGE KID WHO TRIED TO SHAME ME TURNED OUT TO BE GAY HIMSELF
- COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND
- GAY STLAND
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
THE FIRST STS COLLEGE KID WHO TRIED TO SHAME ME TURNED OUT TO BE GAY HIMSELF
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NatnalLGBTQThis was published 3 months agoOpnFah, tradn, and ethos are all fe thgs, unls you are a terrified gay 16-year-old stuck si a venerated stutn tryg to unrstand how you f to all of ’s Sts College lays claim to supportg “every boy at every stage of velopment to bee a nfint, well-ground young man of tegry, who will, turn, revent his world”. It is therefore both surprisg and disappotg to see the school tyg self knots tryg to expla and jtify the Prbyterian Church’s fah-based stance which unqutnably amounts to discrimatn agast some of s own Macdonald his Sts College Prbyterian Church and the school broadly say they are actg the bt terts of children, but I don’t see much evince that eher has nsulted or learnt om the experienc of those who are gog through – or have been through – this stutn and are gay. I wre this now to give some perspective as to what is like to be velopg si an stutn where the discrimatory views and cultur Prbyterian school’s prcipal Dr Ian Lambert, an email to parents this week, sought to clarify the posn of the llege relatn to gay, bi and trans stunt lears, but created more nfn than certaty.
What he had the opportuny to say but did not, is that if a stunt is gay, this is pletely OK and acceptable at the school and no impediment to obtag any role of learship the school’s posn – as outled by Dr Lambert – is a clumsy attempt to bridge the gap between the Prbyterian Church’s sire to discrimate agast some stunts and the obv realy of gay, bi or trans kids gog to s schools. And I’m gay.
COMG OOT: THE FABULO HISTORY OF GAY STLAND
An LGBT former stunt says the cint speaks to a culture of anti-gay bullyg at the boardg school. * scots college gay *
A nsequence of beg schooled an environment where beg gay is nsired thoroughly wrong, weak and sful is that one is left wh a ep sense of shame that tak a lifetime to shake. LoadgThe first kid who labelled me a “poofter” turned out to be gay himself.
GAY STLAND
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And to my ep regret, I too ocsnally joed the tntg of other stunts spected of beg gay.
The Prbyterian Church, which ntrols the Sts College, wants to be granted special relig exceptn to the school’s prcipal Dr Lambert says his email to parents there is no explic ban on gay stunts beg school lears and that the school “term our own polici and procr”, he also says “this is not an attempt to distance the College om the Church”.
In s submissn to the Law Reform Commissn, the Prbyterian Church of Atralia wants the right to discrimate agast gay stunts, specifilly, on the subject of an LGBTQI+ stunt beg a school pta or lear: “If this stunt were an active same-sex relatnship, they would not be able to give appropriate Christian learship a Christian school which requir mollg Christian livg.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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”‘Unls someone pots out the impact of the polici, other young gay kids may also grow up thkg there’s somethg wrong wh them.
End temptatn, nor remove homosexual attractn, genr nfn or other burns this life. Thankfully, today most of are sensible enough to realise that beg gay is no real “burn”, unls those around seek to make a problem of .
It n say plaly and simply: ’s OK to be gay here. It might also help if the school is explic and open about what teach on the subject of beg gay.
GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * scots college gay *
I have reflected eply before voicg all of this, but I know that unls someone pots out the impact of the cultur and polici, then other young gay kids may also grow up thkg there’s somethg wrong wh them. ”Acrdg to the Sts webse, the general assembly of the Prbyterian Church elects a Council rponsible for overall ernance of the a letter sent to parents on Monday, prcipal Ian Lambert said the move was not an attempt to distance the school om the Prbyterian College Melbourne, which is also lked wh the Prbyterian Church, wrote a letter to parents on Monday sayg rejected the ia that stunts gay relatnships uld not be school Atralian Law Reform Commissn’s fal report is due to be hand to Attorney-General Mark Dreyf on feral ernment is nsirg the removal of anti-discrimatn exemptns for relig schools, which enable them to discrimate agast dividuals based on their sexual orientatn, genr inty, maral or relatnship stat, or pregnancy.
Submissns to the quiry have also exposed rifts among members of the Catholic tn peak body reprentg Catholic school prcipals Atralia said s submissn to the quiry the church discrimat agast women and said school enrolment forms should have more than two genr optns on the said discrimatn laws that allow schools to discrimate agast gay staff and stunts were morally College has junr and senr mp on eher si of Victoria Google EarthLoadgThose remarks appear to put at odds wh other Catholic anisatns and submissns to the review cludg the Natnal Catholic Edutn Commissn’s submissn, which said fah-based schools mt be able to engage staff who will support the relig ethos of the school. A private school New Zealand has nmned stunts who posted anti-gay msag rponse to a Pri Month celebratn. A private school New Zealand has said that stunts who posted anti-gay msag rponse to a Pri Month celebratn will be ma to “unrstand the nsequenc of their actns”.
Newshub reports that the ele Prbyterian boardg school Sts College had attempted to celebrate an LGBT+ Pri Week – but faced a flood of homophobic and racist msag om s stunts on Snapchat and Instagram. One msage featured a photo of a boy whose back had unwtgly been vered Pri stickers, wh the ptn “smh you gay n***a”.