Hideously diverse Britain: 'The lesson today is: I'm gay'

workshops aim to tackle homophobic bullying in schools

Some things stay with you. And Suran Dickson, a former teacher, remembers well the day he expressed his intention to contest some of the speeches I heard homophobic students. "I'll wait for his support," said the chief. "Well, I do not understand," was the reply.

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changed, but that was left was the little voice begging him to leave the classroom and directly address the issue of homophobic bullying in schools. The suicide last year of 15, Sunday Crouch, who has faced rumors that he was gay, tipped the balance. Just enough time to give a salary insurance, I said, but it seems to have his finger on something. Since she has done herself and a collection of models available for workshops in primary and secondary schools - an initiative funded by individuals and businesses -. This was kidnapped your feet

• "One of the boys went away, because I thought it was contagious," he said Dickson. "You hear people say that all homosexuals have AIDS, gays and chews tight jeans, who speaks with a lisp I challenge all sorts of personal myths into one because most people can relate to what I can say .. "I'm gay. It's me. We're talking about me .'"
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its operation. It is not surprising. Dickson, a new warm voice of New Zealand, is the participation of the company. It first checks to see how many students would reduce to a friend lose if they become homosexuals. At the end of the workshop, the trend seems encouraging.

a barrier difficult anyway, religious and cultural. Students who need advice are reluctant to get it. Homosexual teachers often remain silent, too, wants the attention could be cons-productive? "I went to a school where the responses of some students were particularly violent," said Dickson. But then, it is not an attempt to sell a lifestyle gay or lesbian, but simply to answer the attitudes that lead bullying

cons-intuitive to some extent. "I think homophobia is the norm for young people, as long as you try to prove they are heterosexual. The challenge is to get our children to school, do not think that is the worst thing in the world to be gay. "