Advice & rmatn on teenage sexualy & Same Sex Attractn for gay and lbian teenagers. Fd advice on g out, homophobia & more.
Contents:
- WHAT ’S LIKE TO GROW UP GAY A SCHOOL THAT WISH YOU WEREN’T
- WHY 'S HARR BEG A GAY TEENAGER TODAY THAN THE 1970S
- HOMOPHOBIA AMONG TEENAGE BOYS HARMG MENTAL HEALTH OF YOUNG GAY PEOPLE, BEYONDBLUE STUDY FDS
- FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
- FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
- TWO TEEN BOYS CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKG GAY MEN SYDNEY
WHAT ’S LIKE TO GROW UP GAY A SCHOOL THAT WISH YOU WEREN’T
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More than 90% of LGBTQ+ stunts hear homophobic language at school, wh more than one three nonted wh slurs on a daily basis, a study of Atralian high school stunts has found. Dpe mon experienc of homophobia, jt 6% of genr and sexualy diverse stunts said that teachers wh earshot always tervened, wh some reportg that adults are actively participatg the Wtern Sydney Universy study, which surveyed 2, 376 LGBTQ stunts aged between 13 and 18 at ernment, pennt and Catholic high schools across Atralia, found almost 30% said they had eher wnsed or been the victims of physil harassment targeted towards gay, lbian and bisexual 57% of the rponnts went to public schools, and most participants intified as female or male, wh almost 9% intifyg as survey rults clu several stanc of children reportg the e of “faggot” as a slur, wh other anecdot of gay stunts beg shoved to lockers and physilly asslted, while teachers were study also not separate data that shows 15-year-old genr and sexualy diverse stunts Atralia report “very low school-based belongg and high rat of school-based isolatn” pared wh other untri, wh “sr notably far worse than even the lowt performg untri”.
Teachers’ behavur is also important shapg how LGBTQ+ stunts perceive themselv amilly, Ullman ’s survey asked stunts to dite how te was that their “teachers talk about same-sex attractn (lbian, gay or bisexual people or topics) a posive way”, and pared this wh amic self-ncept rults. “Rults show that where stunts viewed their teachers as more posive about same-sex attractn across each of the six rponse optns, they also reported higher amic self-ncept, ” Ullman survey also asked stunts how equently teachers would tervene when hearg negative language about gay, lbian or bisexual people, and found that stunts who said their teachers “always” tervened had the hight amic self-ncept sr.
WHY 'S HARR BEG A GAY TEENAGER TODAY THAN THE 1970S
IT'S tougher beg a gay teenager now than was the 1970s, rights activist and popular US advice lumnist Dan Savage says. * gay teenagers australia *
People often scribe themselv as homosexual, gay, queer, lbian or SSA when they are physilly, emotnally and sexually attracted to people of the same sex. There's still a lot of homophobia and disapproval society, which n make thgs difficult.
HOMOPHOBIA AMONG TEENAGE BOYS HARMG MENTAL HEALTH OF YOUNG GAY PEOPLE, BEYONDBLUE STUDY FDS
High levels of homophobia among teenage boys are harmg the mental health of young gay people and puttg them at risk of suici, a study says. * gay teenagers australia *
Dealg wh homophobia.
FACE THE FACTS: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX PEOPLE
Unfortunately, homophobia is still a problem Atralia. If you are experiencg or have experienced harassment, discrimatn or asslt bee of homophobia, you don't have to put up wh .
FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
QLife - Natnal unsellg and referral service for people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or tersex - ll 1800 184 527 or chat live between 3pm and midnight daily. 14pmI know exactly what ’s like to attend a school where homosexualy is owned upon, and which petrified, vulnerable, secretly gay stunts – as I was – are viewed as shameful and sful.
Parents are challengg Cipote Christian College’s ntract mandg fai reject homosexualy and transgenr Cipote Christian CollegeThe ncer that later is the behavur born om that shame. This week we learned that Cipote Christian College Brisbane had mand parents nounce homosexualy and that stunts subscribe to tradnal genr 1987, Brish prime mister Margaret Thatcher told the Conservative Party nference that “children who need to be tght to rpect tradnal moral valu are beg tght they have an alienable right to be gay”. What followed was Sectn 28, legislatn her ernment passed, which outlawed the “promotn of homosexualy” Bra’s was state-sanctned homophobia which gagged schools for 15 years until Tony Blair’s Labour ernment succsfully phed for s 2003 repeal.
TWO TEEN BOYS CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKG GAY MEN SYDNEY
I won’t mce my words here: gay people were, que simply, scum. Homophobic slurs were mon – “queer”, back then, hadn’t been reclaimed; we were genuely nsired to be unnatural, weird and repellent. “Gay” was a synonym for anythg aquate, ferr or flty.
The terror and ternal homophobia meant I joed ; I beme the perpetrator who’d beltle anyone – ually boys who were different – wh this damagg language. Sectn 28 was signed to prevent teachers om challengg such homophobic bullyg. LoadgA growg sense of alarm ticked si of self was a hostile environment: gay people were meaned, ridiculed and huiated.