“There was absolutely no information on LGBT issues at all. It was shocking, as though we didn’t exist.” Jake, 18
Visibility matters. That is the message that comes from the LGBT+ community again and again – representation of LGBT+ people and relationships promotes acceptance within our communities and reaffirms confidence in their own identity.
For young people, school is one of the most significant communities they inhabit and when LGBT+ people are invisible there, it creates an environment in which homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying can thrive. When it does, name-calling, the casual use of “that’s so gay”, threats and isolation can make school an unhappy and unproductive experience for anyone singled out as being “different”.
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