Unsafe Schools Program?
Link7/2/2008
"Martha Swindler, the gay/straight alliance (GSA) advisor at Barnstable
High School, said for many students at her school being out or visibly
LGBT means being a moving target.
For instance, one female student, a lesbian, told Swindler she was
walking recently to pick up her sibling at the nearby middle school
when someone drove by and threw a mostly empty vodka bottle with a lit
match inside it, in the style of a Molotov cocktail, at her. A male
student who wears fishnet stockings has been repeatedly pushed,
shoved, and called derogatory names by other students. LGBT students
at the school have had their artwork defaced. Swindler said she has a
handful of students in her GSA who transferred into Barnstable High
for their senior year; they had opted to go to a nearby charter school
for their first three years because it was seen as a safer place for
LGBT students and other students pegged by their peers as "different."
All of her students complain about the constant use of the word "->-bleeped-<-"
by their peers."
