Extralegal Factors in Lesbian and Gay Students' Attitudes Toward Hate Crime

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony M. Sarkees
Keyword(s):  
Hate Crime ◽  
Gay Students ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Extralegal Factors ◽  
Students Attitudes

School counsellors' responses to homosexuality and to lesbian and gay students

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
Adriana Fallone ◽  
Daphne Hewson
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
Inservice Training ◽  
Curriculum Material ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Supportive Services ◽  
Poor Knowledge ◽  
Gay Students ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
School Counsellors ◽  
High Range

NSW School Counsellors were surveyed regarding their attitudes towards homosexuality and their experience and willingness to work with gay and lesbian students. Most counsellors showed low to moderate homonegativism, but 16.6% scored in the high range. Less knowledge, experience, and past training on homosexuality issues were significantly related to homonegativism, as was unwillingness to participate in future activities and workshops dealing with lesbian and gay students' issues. Many counsellors had a poor knowledge of existing support services. Counsellors who were willing to provide supportive services for gay and lesbian students expressed a need for resources, information kits and curriculum material, inservice training, executive support and a positive Departmental policy.

Race and Sexual Orientation: The (Im)possibility of These Intersections in Educational Policy

1996 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Snider
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
Educational Structure ◽  
Gay Youth ◽  
Gay Students ◽  
Lesbian And Gay

In this article, Kathryn Snider critiques the Toronto Board of Education's Triangle Program, a program designed for lesbian and gay youth who are at risk of dropping out of high school. She questions whether this program, which provides support for students coping with issues of sexual identity, can really work for lesbian and gay youth of color unless it also includes strategies that acknowledge how issues of sexual orientation interact with issues of racial identity. She locates this critique within the larger context of the Board's approach to multiculturalism and diversity in the schools. Rather than implementing a program that further marginalizes and isolates lesbian and gay students by removing them from mainstream education, Snider suggests, schools must make fundamental changes that work to eliminate racism and homophobia within the dominant educational structure.

scholarly journals Are You Gay, Sir? A Review of the Literature Concerning the Experiences of Gay Male Educators

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Town
Keyword(s):  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
School Environments ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Gay Students ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Gay And Lesbian Youth ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Gay Teachers ◽  
Lesbian Teachers

This article reviews the literature available from overseas and in Aotearoa that investigates the experiences of gay and lesbian teachers in secondary schools. In doing so it explores the role that homophobia and heterosexism play in creating school environments that are often hostile to lesbian and gay teachers and students. These “forces” operate to maintain the segregation between gay and lesbian youth and gay and lesbian teachers creating a climate of fear based on myths of paedophilia, recruitment and deviancy. The damaging effects of this institutionalised homophobia on the daily lives of gay male teachers is examined. Using overseas experience as a guide, suggestions as to how to create safe schools for lesbian and gay students and teachers are explored.

scholarly journals Reducing Homophobia Within The College Community

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Iconis
Keyword(s):  
College Campuses ◽  
Gay Students ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
College Community

Research over the last two decades reveals widespread anti-gay prejudice on many college campuses. Faculty can improve the climate for lesbian and gay students in our classes and on our campuses in a number of ways.

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