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What happened to homophobia?

Started by Natasha, October 25, 2008, 03:47:54 AM

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October 25, 2008, 03:47:54 AM
What happened to homophobia?

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Columnists/1086619.html
KEVIN KINDRED
10/25/2008

Nova Scotians should be really proud of the wash of pink we're seeing in our schools. You know the story by now – and rightly so, it's a story worth repeating.

David Shepherd and Travis Price, two 12th-graders in Cambridge, N.S., at the time, became international heroes last year when they stood up for a younger boy being bullied.

Their courage led to a movement of students wearing pink in order to stand up against bullying, a movement that's still going strong. And they got the rest of us thinking about the problem, from students to reporters to politicians in pink ties.

Except, what exactly is the problem that everyone's talking about again?

This all started with a younger boy who was picked on, and called a homophobic epithet – all because he wore pink to school. So, this is a story about homophobia, right?

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