Anti-Gay Harrassment Still Strong in High Schools

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10/27/2008

Editor's Note: On Nov. 4, Californians will vote on Proposition 8, a state measure that would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry. But even though same-sex marriage has been legal in the state since June, LGBT youth continue to experience harassment, and to fight back against it. Carolyn Ji Jong Goossen writes for New America Media.

Last year, students at her high school threw a bottle at Nina Almero, poured soda into her purse, called her names and spread rumors about her. Their bullying and harassment, Almero says, was a result of her high visibility as president of the school's Gay and Lesbian Student Alliance, and because she is out as bisexual in her Valencia, Calif. school.