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Feature: The kids are alright

Started by LostInTime, March 06, 2007, 09:22:04 AM

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Colette Bernhardt meets the youth group with a hands-on approach to homophobia in schools.

"There's no way I would have come out at school – I would have been beaten up."

Twenty-three-year-old Stuart's words ring true for many of us, particularly if you were at school before the repeal of Section 28 in 2003.

Even now the infamous piece of legislation that prohibited "the promotion of homosexuality" has been revoked, there remains no statutory requirement for teachers to address the subject of sexual orientation with their pupils.
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