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sexta-feira, 28 de junho de 2013

St. Albert public school passes sexual orientation, gender identity policy


in: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Albert+public+school+passes+sexual+orientation+gender/8589739/story.html



St. Albert public school trustees have passed a policy designed to protect staff, students and their families from discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

The board passed the stand-alone sexual orientation and gender identity policy at a regular meeting Wednesday night.

It is similar to a policy Edmonton public school trustees approved in November 2011, the first such policy to be approved in Alberta.

Last year, the Alberta School Boards Association rejected a policy to protect sexual minorities, saying existing harassment and discrimination policies already protect all children and there is no need to single out a specific group.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Albert+public+school+passes+sexual+orientation+gender/8589739/story.html

terça-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2013

St. Albert trustees prepare to debate policy to protect gay, lesbian students and staff from discrimination



in: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Albert+trustees+prepare+debate+policy+protect+lesbian/8008011/story.html



The former superintendent and current vice-chair of St. Albert’s public school board is hoping trustees will take the first steps Wednesday in passing a stand-alone policy to protect and support gay and lesbian students and teachers in the district’s schools.

Joe Demko, a trustee and longtime teacher and principal in St. Albert, said city voters were well aware of his views supporting such a policy when they elected him to the school board. “I think the community is ready. I just don’t know whether the board will be or not,” he said Saturday.

Demko and the board’s four other trustees will debate a motion Wednesday to direct administrators to draft a sexual orientation and gender identity policy, much like the one passed by the Edmonton public school board in November 2011. The policy would protect students and staff from discrimination or bullying and would also ensure school environments are welcoming and supportive to gay, lesbian and transgendered youth.

If the motion passes and a policy is approved, St. Albert would be the second school district in Alberta, after Edmonton, to do so.

“Information keeps coming forward that points to it being really in the best interest of kids — and not just LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer) kids, but all kids, to have a stand-alone policy that would address those issues,” said Demko.

There have been examples elsewhere of kids being bullied for being gay when they weren’t, but other students perceived they were, he added. Students may also use hurtful words and expressions without realizing their impact. “That warrants us doing something in the schools so people, and the kids especially, understand that it’s inappropriate.”

Both of the district’s two major high schools have active gay-straight student alliances. The board recently included sexual orientation and gender identity among the protections covered in its student conduct code, and will debate including them in the board’s discrimination and harassment policy at Wednesday’s meeting, as well.

“I think this is kind of a natural next step,” Demko said. “I’m hoping that our board is ready to take those next steps forward and approve a stand-alone policy.”

He points to research done in Winnipeg that showed 14 per cent of students described themselves as not being exclusively heterosexual. Another recent study found sexual minorities who have come out publicly are mentally and physically healthier than those who have not.

At the Alberta School Boards Association meeting last fall, a motion was put forward to encourage all districts to create stand-alone policies supporting gay and lesbian students and staff. While the motion didn’t pass, the St. Albert Public School Board voted in favour of it, said Demko.

A Facebook campaign to support the creation of such a policy by attending Wednesday evening’s public board meeting has been launched by Kris Wells, a former student and teacher in St. Albert who is now associate director of the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services at the University of Alberta.

“As a student, I couldn’t be out and my experience was one of profound silence and invisibility, and sadly, that was the same experience I had as a teacher,” he said. “At that time, there were no human rights protections in the province so I couldn’t be out without risking losing my job.”

Wells ended up leaving teaching because of those experiences.

“For me, this policy matters,” he said. “It’s ultimately to protect students in our schools. That’s what it comes down to.”

Board chair Joan Trettler wouldn’t comment on the policy Saturday, saying she wanted to wait until Wednesday to debate the motion.

Trustee Gerry Martins said he supports protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity, but as part of a policy that includes protections for people based on other factors as well, such as race and disabilities.

Trustees Cheryl Dumont and Merrin Nuc couldn’t be reached for comment.

Wells said he hopes to see the trustees show leadership to students and families in St. Albert, but also to school boards across the province, by supporting a stand-alone policy.

“It doesn’t take away from anything. All it does is it helps to build a more welcoming, accepting and respectful school environment for everyone.”



http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Albert+trustees+prepare+debate+policy+protect+lesbian/8008011/story.html

terça-feira, 19 de fevereiro de 2013

US: Massachusetts issues rules respecting identity of transgender students



in: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/02/18/us-massachusetts-issues-rules-respecting-identity-of-transgender-students/


New directives for schools in Massachusetts have been issued by the Department of Education, stating that transgender students should be allowed to use facilities according to their gender identity.

The 11-page document recommends that students be allowed to use bathrooms and play for sports teams that correspond to the gender they identify with. It follows a 2011 anti-discrimination law that gave more protections to transgender people in the state, but did not cover bathroom use.

The directive reads: “These students, because of widespread misunderstanding and lack of knowledge about their lives, are at a higher risk for peer ostracism, victimisation, and bullying.”

Some local school committee members did not support the directive. Brockton School Committee member Thomas Minichiello said: “I don’t have daughters. But if I did … I don’t think I’d feel comfortable having a boy going in the bathroom when my daughter is there.”

Brockton School was sued over a decade ago by a transgender child who identified as a girl, and wanted to use the girl’s bathroom and wear dresses to school. Her parents took the school to court after the child, referred to in the case as “Pat Doe”, was told she had to wear boy’s clothing and use the male bathroom.

Andrew Beckwith of the Massachusetts Family sided with Mr Minichiello: “Fundamentally, boys need to use boys’ rooms and girls need to be using the girls’ rooms, and we base that on their anatomical sex, not some sort of internalised gender identity,” he said.

Mr Minichiello and Mr Beckwith’s views stem from a lack of understanding of transgender people, says Jane Martin, Chair of the Easton School Committee.

Ms Martin said: “If you really truly understand the nature of transgenders [sic], there’s not a girl in the boy’s bathroom.”

She added that she supported the directives and said: “We are very proud of the record that we set,” noting the district was known for “respecting the rights of all our students.”

Gunner Scott of the Massachusetts Transgender Coalition said the guidelines would be ”immensely helpful to those parents who have been struggling with making sure that the school environment is safe and welcoming of their child.”
 

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/02/18/us-massachusetts-issues-rules-respecting-identity-of-transgender-students/

quarta-feira, 23 de janeiro de 2013

New Jersey high school teen announces to 300-plus classmates at assembly that he is gay


in: http://gaystarnews.com/article/new-jersey-high-school-teen-announces-300-plus-classmates-assembly-he-gay230113




New Jersey high school student Jacob Rudolph came out publicly to more than 300 classmates this month when he stepped up to accept the award for Class Actor during a school assembly.

'Sure, I've been in a few plays and musicals, but more importantly, I've been acting every single day of my life,' he told his classmates at the Parsippany, NJ school. 'You see, I've been acting as someone I'm not ... you see me acting the part of straight Jacob, when I am in fact LGBT.'

This got the noisy crowd's attention. He then explained that LGBT stands for 'Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender.'

'Unlike millions of other LGBT teens who have had to act every day to avoid verbal harassment and physical violence, I'm not going to do it anymore,' he explained.

He concluded the speech by saying: 'So take me, leave me or move me out of the way, because I am what I am, and that's how I'm going to act from now on.'

Rudolph's classmates gave the teen an enthusiastic standing ovation as he left the stage. Later, his proud father posted video of his son's speech on YouTube with a written introduction which stated that his son's decision to come out to the school took 'more guts than anything I've ever attempted in my life.'

The video was shared by a gay friend of the father who sent it to Towleroad.com on Wednesday (23 January)




http://gaystarnews.com/article/new-jersey-high-school-teen-announces-300-plus-classmates-assembly-he-gay230113

terça-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2012

Mexico: Teacher fired for showing the pro-gay film Milk



in: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/12/10/mexico-teacher-fired-for-showing-film-the-pro-gay-film-milk/

Sean Penn plays the role of gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk
Sean Penn plays the role of gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk
 
 

A middle school teacher in Mexico has been fired after screening the film “Milk”, which tells the story of legendary US gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk.

Cecilia Hernandez showed the first half-hour of the film to her 7th and 8th graders in the city of Cuajimalpa as part of an approved lesson plan addressing sexual orientation and discrimination.

The newspaper Proceso said the day after she showed the movie, Ms Hernandez was called into the principal’s office and fired.

In an e-mail, the principal called the Oscar-winning film “filth.”

The 2008 film, directed by Gus Van Sant stars Sean Penn as the late US gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk.

Elected as California’s first openly gay official, Milk was assassinated in 1978.

Meanwhile, Ms Henandez says she does not want her job back and has filed a complaint with the national discrimination board.
 
 

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/12/10/mexico-teacher-fired-for-showing-film-the-pro-gay-film-milk/

sexta-feira, 30 de novembro de 2012

US: Teacher suspended for letting student play pro-gay equality song to class



in: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/11/29/us-teacher-suspended-for-letting-student-play-pro-gay-equality-song-to-class/


Susan Johnson has been suspended without pay (Photo: Fox News) 
Susan Johnson has been suspended without pay (Photo: Fox News)


A teacher at a school in South Lyon, Michigan has been suspended without pay for allowing a student to play a song about gay love to his class.

Susan Johnson, a performing arts teacher told Fox News that an eigth grade student at South Lyon’s Centennial Middle School asked if he could play a song to a class of 13 and 14 year-olds.

“I asked him a few questions about the song. If it was violent, if there was any profanity, and he said no. And I said this sounds like a great song to go ahead and use for the class,” the teacher told the network.

The song, “Same Love” is by rapper Ben Maclemore that talks of the dangers of hate and stereotype by describing the struggle of a gay man from birth to death.

“This is one of the things in my school that we’re trying to practice and we’re trying to instill in our students is tolerance to diversity,” she said.

After a student disagreed with the message of tolerance, they went to the principal who immediately suspended the teacher without pay.

“I don’t think that it was really even thought through,” she said. “I was paralyzed. I really didn’t understand why I was being suspended.”

The local authorities gave her paperwork that explained that she was suspended because the song is “controversial” because it contains content about homosexuality. Michigan has a constitutional state ban on same-sex marriage. The state outlawed anal sex (for gay and straight couples) until the US Supreme Court ruled that such bans were illegal in 2003.

Ms Johnson said:”I really love my kids and I never want to hurt them, but I also know that there’s a lot of bullying and there’s a lot of gay bashing and racial issues going on in our country and I want the kids to feel comfortable in my class no matter who they are.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are now investigating the case.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/11/29/us-teacher-suspended-for-letting-student-play-pro-gay-equality-song-to-class/

sexta-feira, 23 de novembro de 2012

Gay former principal sues school



in: http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2012/11/23/gay-former-principal-sues-school/89966

The openly gay former principal of Bialik College, Joseph Gerassi, is suing the Melbourne Jewish school for millions of dollars after being sacked under enigmatic circumstances. The Age reports that Gerrassi was told to resign in August last year after the school council “had lost confidence” in him or have his employment terminated within the hour.

In a letter, school council president Graham Goldsmith acknowledged “many of the positive changes” that Gerassi had made but said they had come to an unanimous decision that they had lost confidence in his ability. He was given nine months pay and ordered not to speak with media, staff and school for nine months but is now seeking compensation for loss of income, distress, humiliation and damage to his reputation.

Gerassi began as a principal in 2009 and was believed to be the first openly gay principal of a Jewish school in Australia.


http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2012/11/23/gay-former-principal-sues-school/89966

segunda-feira, 19 de novembro de 2012

Push is on to develop more gay-straight alliances in Alberta schools



in: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Push+develop+more+straight+alliances+Alberta+schools/7566864/story.html


Push is on to develop more gay-straight alliances in Alberta schools
Kiana Chouinard of Scona High School, and Bryan Cooke of Centre High, two of the 60 delegates at the first Gay-Straight Alliance Student Conference which was held in in Edmonton on Nov. 17, 2012.
Photograph by: Marta Gold , Edmonton Journal


 
About 60 students and teachers gathered Saturday in Edmonton to do what would have been unthinkable even a decade ago: hold a conference about starting, supporting and sustaining gay-straight alliance groups in schools across the province.

With the blessing of both the Alberta government and Edmonton’s public school board, the first Gay Straight Alliance Student Conference saw students from across the province join forces at the Bennett Centre to talk about gender identity, homophobia, advocacy, respect and creative self-expression.

“Just a few short years ago, within the span of your lives, this would be almost unthinkable,” deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk said in kicking off the conference, sponsored by the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (ISMSS) at the University of Alberta.

Alberta Culture Minister Heather Klimchuk, who also spoke to the students, likened their efforts to those of the Famous 5, who fought for the right of Canadian women to be appointed to the Senate and paved the way for women like her in politics, she said.

“We should not be defined by what we wear, how we look or who we love, and that’s very important to me,” she said.

“Never doubt that the gay-straight alliances you represent are anything but an instrument for change to make it better, fairer and more just.”

The featured speaker was Rae Spoon, a transgendered musician and author who grew up in an evangelical Christian home in southern Alberta. Delegates also talked a lot about gender identity and expression, said Kris Wells, associate director of the ISMSS. “It’s equated to where sexual orientation was 30 years ago – largely not understood; a lot of stereotypes and misinformation.”

The Edmonton public school board has a sexual orientation and gender identity policy. It has put forward a policy resolution to the Alberta School Boards Association that all Alberta boards do the same. The association will debate the resolution on Monday.

In Ontario, legislation has been passed mandating gay-straight alliances be supported in any school where students request one, even in Catholic schools, Wells said. Alberta doesn’t have such legislation.

In Edmonton, there are 13 gay-straight alliances at public high schools, he said.

Some have only recently been established, like the one at Centre High, where 18-year-old student Bryan Cooke was among those who challenged the school’s no-clubs policy and lobbied successfully to set up a gay-straight alliance, which met for the first time this past week. It’s small so far — only a few students, a counsellor and an openly gay teacher who helps out — but Cooke expects it to grow.

Earlier, as a student at McNally High School he came out as bisexual with the support of that school’s gay-straight alliance.

“I came out while I was on the football team and some of the guys were uncomfortable. But I said, ‘I don’t care if you don’t like it, I’m changing in here.’ ”

Most of his teammates were accepting. His coach was supportive, but one boy continued to bother him. Because of his behaviour, the boy was suspended from school for five days and from the football team, Cooke said.

Grade 12 student Kiana Chouinard heads the alliance at Scona High School, one of the two oldest gay-straight alliances in the city, established in 2000. The other is at Ross Sheppard High School.

The group hosts education and awareness events and has teamed with the school’s Christian club for a couple of events. “Everyone just assumes that we’re not going to get along … but they’re great,” Chouinard said.

Still, biases and misunderstanding about the club persist. “I’ve had parents call my school complaining about the ‘gay cult’ in our school, and saying ‘my kid is in the gay cult,’ and that’s ridiculous,” she said.

Younger kids in the club still come to her complaining of incidents of bullying and homophobia. She has intervened on their behalf.

A conference like this one is a great affirmation of the positive work that alliances do, she said. “I think it’s just great that we can be in a public place and advertise it on the Internet and it’s in the newspaper, and we can talk about it nobody is outside protesting and we can all just be ourselves.”



http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Push+develop+more+straight+alliances+Alberta+schools/7566864/story.html

sábado, 16 de junho de 2012

Fifth-Grader Prohibited From Giving Speech Supporting Marriage Equality


in: http://thinkprogress.org/





A Queens, New York fifth-grader named Kameron Slade won a class competition and was slated to deliver a speech as part of a school-wide competition at PS 195. However, because Kameron’s speech was to be about same-sex marriage, his principal told him he would be removed from the contest if he did not choose a different topic. Here are some excerpts from Kameron’s “inappropriate” speech:









http://thinkprogress.org/

sábado, 9 de junho de 2012

Lesbian Girlfriends Get “Cutest Couple” In High School Yearbook


in: http://www.queerty.com/





Isn’t this just the most wonderful feel-good story to kick off the weekend? Girlfriends Destinee Gates and Becca Fernandez were awarded “Cutest Couple” in the yearbook of Calaveras High School in California.

They’ve openly dated since Freshman year, and have been surprised at how most people and their peers in the normally conservative county have been accepting. Even Principal Ric Stitt beams as he describes the tolerance within his community.

If only other schools and administrators would take a lesson from this simple, but beautiful story of acceptance. Destinee and Becca plan to both attend Columbia College in Sonora in the fall. May they continue to find happiness.

Can we hear an “Aaaaaaaaaawww…”?



http://www.queerty.com/

quinta-feira, 2 de fevereiro de 2012

Estudantes espanhóis não terão mais aulas de cidadania LGBT




Até o fim de janeiro, os estudantes de escolas públicas na Espanha tinham aulas sobre cidadania LGBT, mas o novo governo que tomou posse recentemente acabou com a disciplina Educação para a Cidadania, na qual se fala sobre imigrantes, negros, deficientes e LGBT.


A decisão foi anunciada nesta semana. O Partido Popular, que está no poder, não acredita que o casamento homossexual, que ainda é permitido no país, esteja dentro da Constituição.

terça-feira, 6 de dezembro de 2011

Creation of the Research Chair on Homophobia


in:
http://www.gouv.qc.ca/


The Research Chair on Homophobia will be part of the Department of Sexology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

Two main themes will be the primary focus of the Chair’s research: the consequences of homophobia on physical, mental and sexual health, and solving the phenomenon of sexual minorities’ social exclusion.

Press release (in French only)


quinta-feira, 24 de novembro de 2011

Oxford University Raises the Rainbow Flag For The First Time In 900 Years

in: http://www.queermagazineonline.com/


While Oxford University is lauded for its heavy-handed traditions and Hogwarts-style buildings, the 38 colleges that make up the prestigious academy all have their own reputations. Wadham College, a 17th-century castle at the center of the university, is often considered the progressive college. This week it proved worthy of that reputation by flying a rainbow flag over its spires to mark the annual weeklong celebration Queerfest. While the gay community is supported at Oxford, the flying of the flag is thought to be the first official symbol of LGBT support displayed in the university’s 900-year history.

Michael Brooks, a 19-year-old undergraduate and organizer (or organiser, if you will) of Queerfest told Pink News that the idea to raise the flag was welcomed

“Putting up the flag was such a simple thing to do, but it had a huge effect on Oxford. I heard many people from different colleges talking about it. I saw tourists stopping outside Wadham to take photos of it… It challenges the stereotypes people have of Oxford and I hope that it will make those within Oxford who do hold very conservative views concerning LGBTQ rights to think differently.”

We hope that flying the rainbow flag becomes a tradition for the next 900 years.


http://www.queermagazineonline.com/


quarta-feira, 2 de novembro de 2011

University bans gay employees


in: http://www.starobserver.com.au

A university in the US state of Georgia is forcing its 200 employees to sign a statement declaring that they reject homosexuality.

Atlanta’s WSBTV news reports that employees at Shorter University, a Christian Baptist school, who sign the ‘personal lifestyle pledge’ must also reject premarital sex and adultery, and other behaviour the school deems to violate the Bible’s teachings. Anyone who doesn’t sign the pledge is at risk of losing their jobs.

The pledge also requires employees to be active in local churches.

The lifestyle statement was adopted by the school’s board of trustees last month and presented to employees three days later, on October 24.

All new employees will have to sign the pledge upon being hired, and all current employees will have to sign it in order to renew their contract. The pledge notifies employees that they can be fired for violating the new policy.

“We now will live in fear that someone who doesn’t like us personally or someone who has had a bad day will report that we’ve been drinking or that we are suspected of being gay,” an anonymous employee told gay newspaper, Georgia Voice.

“There is no defined process and even if there were, there is no way to absolutely prove or disprove the accusation.”

Shorter president Don Dowless told WSBTV that the goal wasn’t to offend people, and that lots of Christian schools have similar pledges.

“These are biblical positions,” he said.

School officials said that since the school doesn’t receive federal funding, it believes its actions are perfectly legal.

In Victoria this year, the Baillieu Government passed the controversial Equal Opportunity Amendment Bill which made easier for religious organisations to discriminate against LGBT people.

The new bill reversed the former Brumby Government’s legislation — due to come into effect in August — which included an inherent requirements test provision requiring religious bodies to establish that their ability to discriminate for a particular job was an ‘inherent requirement’ for the role.


sábado, 6 de agosto de 2011

"Homofobia prejudica acesso, permanência e qualidade da educação"

http://www.observatoriodaeducacao.org.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1068:homofobia-prejudica-acesso-permanencia-e-qualidade-da-educacao-&catid=56:entrevistas&Itemid=2

Em entrevista ao Observatório da Educação, o pesquisador Marcelo Daniliauskas, doutorando da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo na temática educação, políticas públicas e questões LGBT, fala sobre o projeto de lei que institui o novo Plano Nacional de Educação e as políticas de combate à homofobia nas escolas.



Observatório da Educação – Como avalia as emendas ao projeto de lei que institui o novo Plano Nacional de Educação (PNE) relativas ao tema da homofobia?


Marcelo Daniliauskas – Essas estratégias entrarem como aditivas é uma questão, porque havia várias deliberações sobre diversidade na Conae, procedentes das conferências, e as resoluções não foram incorporadas pelo governo federal na elaboração do projeto de lei. Fez debate, chamou as pessoas e não incorpora as resoluções? Isso já é uma questão. De um processo democrático saíram resoluções em que consta uma série de questões e um texto do governo não contempla isso de forma razoável. Tem um problema aí.

Mas o bacana das emendas é que são abrangentes. A relativa à meta 14 incorpora formação inicial dos profissionais de educação. Hoje há programas de educação continuada, mas num plano de dez anos é bacana prever formação inicial, senão só remedia problemas. É uma grande vantagem, começa a resolver na origem. Mas o texto poderia ir além, dizendo que deveria envolver diversos níveis na educação, que não são citados. Poderia ser mais específico, e trabalhar combate à discriminação em todos os níveis de ensino.



Observatório da Educação – A meta 8, para a qual há uma emenda, trata da elevação da escolaridade e redução da desigualdade educacional. Qual é a relação entre escolaridade, evasão e homofobia, e qual é a importância de se desenvolver programas sobre isso?


Daniliauskas – Temos avançado na universalização do número de vagas nas escolas, mas um desafio que vem desde os governos anteriores é buscar universalização com qualidade. A homofobia afeta os pilares do que se propõe como política pública de educação: acesso, permanência e qualidade. Com a universalização do número de vagas, há olhar mais atento para pessoa que ainda está fora ou que acaba saindo da escola. Porque ainda tem gente fora da escola, isso traz visão para outros mecanismos de exclusão. Em relação à homofobia, é muito frequente escolas rechaçarem as alunas travestis: falam que não tem vaga. Há problemas no próprio acesso. Acompanhei jovem que teve de circular em várias escolas para conseguir vaga, e necessitou da intervenção de uma ONG para conseguir. Quando a escola percebe que aluno tem alguma característica que destoa, quando tem identidade de gênero que não a hétero, rechaça.

Outra questão é a permanência. Há o tempo inteiro discriminação, o que leva a dificuldades grandes de permanência, pela inferiorização social constante. Alunos e alunas apanham, são xingados, e isso afeta também a qualidade do ensino. Ainda que permaneça na escola, será em que condições? Pode assistir aula com tranquilidade?

Quando há agressões, a punição não é a mesma para quem agride homossexual em relação a quem agride uma menina hétero, por exemplo. Há certos tipos de discriminação mais toleráveis, que não é considerada problema tão sério. Então, é importante combater a discriminação por questão de acesso, permanência, e qualidade.



Observatório da Educação – Quais são os principais desafios para a superação do preconceito e da homofobia no ambiente escolar?


Daniliauskas – Uma questão pouco explorada é a de princípios mesmo, de valores, olhar crítico. A escola é lugar onde se deveria aprender e exercitar a cidadania. Discute-se pouco sobre questões de cidadania e do exercício da cidadania. É importante saber das desigualdades, sobre grupos discriminados, saber direitos, questões como a união estável. Isso deveria estar na agenda da escola, faz parte da cidadania, a diversidade é pouco abordada pela escola na perspectiva da cidadania. A Secad [Secretaria de Diversidade do MEC] está preocupada, mas é pouco comum no cotidiano escolar, muito pouco trabalhado.

Por isso, além de entrar na lei essas questões, é preciso observar como se converter em prática e trabalhar nas redes. Seria importante especificar responsabilidades dos entes federados, dos sistemas de ensino. Isso diz respeito a todos os níveis de educação. Tem que pensar também nos currículos, em espécie de Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais sobre diversidade, os atuais não contemplam essa questão. Em relação ao PNE, é preciso pensar em mecanismos para que metas se tornem realidade e não fiquem no âmbito do documento. O MEC pode induzir, atrair para essa questão com recursos, indicadores, para que haja adesão de quem não é sensível à temática. Seria legal algum tipo de programa e incentivo nesse sentido.



Observatório da Educação – Gostaria de acrescentar mais alguma questão?


Daniliauskas – O que chama a atenção, quando se fala em homofobia nas escolas, é que se pensa muito nos alunos, mas é bacana pensar em como afeta a vida de professores, professoras e funcionários. O público LGBT está em todas as partes. Pouco se pensa que tipo de problema professor enfrenta sendo LGBT. Essa curva não acontece só com alunos, mas com professores também, com profissionais, que acabam sendo reiteradamente desqualificados por conta de ser LGBT. Não se escuta professor em conselhos, salas de aula, por esse motivo. O tema da diversidade sexual é mais tabu, mas se escola é espaço de discussão, qualquer tema deve ser debatido, é ignorância pensar que na escola não se pode discutir, assim ela se isenta de qualificar o debate.

sexta-feira, 5 de agosto de 2011

Teacher confronts gay hate in schools

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23975587-teacher-confronts-gay-hate-in-schools.do




A London teacher has quit her job to set up a charity tackling homophobia in schools. Suran Dickson, 34, will take inspirational role models into classrooms to challenge children's stereotypes about gay people.

Ms Dickson was moved by the suicide of Dominic Crouch, 15, who fell from a six-storey building in Cheltenham in May last year. An inquest heard that rumours had apparently been circulating at Dominic's school that he had kissed a boy in a game of "spin the bottle" and might be gay. His father Roger said: "We need to realise that what may be a laugh to some young people is deeply upsetting to another."

Ms Dickson said Dominic's death was the "straw that broke the camel's back", and at the end of last term she left her job as school sports co-ordinator in Islington. She plans to launch Diversity Role Models in London next month.

During her 12 years in north London schools, Ms Dickson has been offering teacher friends informal advice on tackling homophobic bullying. She has also visited schools to speak about her life as a gay woman.

She said she had been shocked by the prejudices of some pupils. In one class "when I said I was gay one pupil moved away from me. He thought it was contagious and all gay people had Aids.

"I sometimes got quite violent reactions, especially from boys, who would say things like, 'I want to kill them.'

"Lots of gay people have told me their lives were hell at school, and if one person had told them it was okay to be gay, it would have made a massive difference." About 50 role models have been recruited so far, "not all gay".

The workshops aim to take the pressure off teachers who may feel uncomfortable dealing with the issue: "It's tough. Initially in these lessons there's a lot of negativity. These lessons can save lives," said Ms Dickson.

She is seeking funding for her project. Visit diversityrolemodels.org


sexta-feira, 15 de julho de 2011

Alunos da Califórnia terão aulas sobre o movimento gay nas escolas

http://www.revistaladoa.com.br/website/artigo.asp?cod=1592&idi=1&moe=84&id=18223


Se no Brasil o programa Escola sem Homofobia foi suspenso pela presidente Dilma, nos EUA, o governador da Califórnia, Jerry Brown, assinou esta semana uma lei que coloca a história do movimento gay como matéria obrigatória nas escolas do estado. É a primeira vez nos EUA que as conquistas do movimento gay entram no conteúdo programático oficial de um estado.


O projeto de lei SB48, foi aprovado no Senado estadual com objetivo de proibir o veto de assuntos polêmicos nas escolas, como vinha acontecendo. “Esta norma revisa as leis existentes que proíbem discriminação na educação e garante que as contribuições importantes de americanos de todos os âmbitos e estilos de vida estejam incluídas em nossos livros de história”, disse Brown. O projeto mostrará as conquistas do movimento gay nas escolas da Califórnia, com o objetivo de diminuir o bullying e a discriminação.

quinta-feira, 26 de maio de 2011

Brazilian leader suspends anti-homophobia campaign

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Brazil's president suspended an anti-homophobia campaign Wednesday that had been planned to begin at schools this year because she thought the videos and pamphlets weren't appropriate for children.

Presidential secretary Gilberto Carvalho met with legislators representing religious groups that have opposed the campaign and emerged to say that Rousseff decided to delay the program.

He did not provide details on what material in the videos and pamphlets was considered inappropriate by Rousseff. The materials were to be distributed to children of varying ages across Brazil.

"The government maintains its clear position against any type of homophobia," Carvalho said. "It's important that this material, to be productive and to reach its goals, be the result of extensive consultation with society, to not generate this type of controversy."

The civil rights group Grupo Gay da Bahia says 260 gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people were murdered in Brazil last year. That was up 113 percent from 2005.

Brazil's top court recently ruled that same-sex civil unions must be recognized.


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segunda-feira, 7 de março de 2011

Serviços de Educação barram campanha contra a homofobia

in: http://www.esquerda.net/

A Rede Ex-Aequo queria levar o combate à homofobia às escolas. Mas os serviços do ministério barraram-lhe a entrada, alegando que a campanha tem um cariz “ideológico”. Bloco questionou o Ministério da Educação.
A Rede Ex-Aequo queria levar o combate à homofobia às escolas. Mas os serviços do ministério barraram-lhes a entrada, alegando que a campanha tem um cariz “ideológico”. Bloco questionou o Ministério da Educação.
Dois dos cartazes que seriam distribuídos pela associação nas escolas.


A campanha da responsabilidade da Rede Ex-Aequo, associação de jovens que promove os direitos dos homossexuais e transexuais, destina-se a promover o combate à homofobia e à transfobia nos estabelecimentos de ensino. Trata-se de um projecto apoiado e financiado desde o início por uma entidade estatal, a Comissão para a Cidadania e a Igualdade de Género (CIG).

Contudo, dois serviços do Ministério da Educação (ME) recusaram apoiar a distribuição nas escolas dos materiais do Projecto Inclusão.

A justificação para a recusa em distribuir os cartazes e os folhetos, que promovem a não discriminação de jovens gays e lésbicas, é o alegado cariz ideológico dos mesmos, de acordo com a informação dada pelos jovens da Rede Ex-Aequo que já foram ouvidos no Parlamento, e que foi confirmada ao Público por Manuel Abrantes, da direcção da associação.

Os representantes do ME alegaram, na reunião que tiveram com a associação, que a este compete ser "neutro em assuntos que possam ser considerados ideológicos". E aconselharam a Ex-Aequo a contactar directamente as escolas, para distribuir os materiais da campanha. Ora, segundo a associação, algumas têm aderido, enquanto outras respondem que se trata "não de uma campanha contra a discriminação, mas sim de uma campanha de promoção da homossexualidade".

Esta justificação foi transmitida à Ex-Aequo numa reunião tida com representantes de dois departamentos do ME - a Direcção-Geral de Inovação e Desenvolvimento Curricular e o seu Núcleo de Educação para a Saúde, Acção Social Escolar e Apoios Educativos - e motivou já um requerimento, questionando a Ministra da Educação, por parte do deputado José Soeiro.

Perante as respostas relatadas pela Ex-Aequo e a sua não conformidade com a lei, o deputado do Bloco lembra na pergunta dirigida à tutela que o artigo 13.º da Constituição prevê a não discriminação em função da orientação sexual e que cabe ao Estado promover a igualdade.

José Soeiro lembra ainda que a lei da educação sexual determina, "no seu artigo 2.º, que entre as finalidades da educação sexual em meio escolar estão: f) O respeito pela diferença entre as pessoas e pelas diferentes orientações sexuais; e l) A eliminação de comportamentos baseados na discriminação sexual ou na violência em função do sexo ou orientação sexual".


Campanha levaria às escolas o combate à homofobia e à transfobia

A campanha da Rede Ex-Aequo é a primeira desta natureza a acontecer em Portugal, e inspira-se em grande medida em iniciativas semelhantes desenvolvidas noutros países, por organizações congéneres, partindo da constatação de que a juventude lésbica, gay, bissexual e transgénera tem riscos mais elevados de depressão, baixa auto-estima, auto-mutilação, tentativa de suicídio, em grande medida devido ao preconceito com que é confrontada no quotidiano.

O projecto passa essencialmente pela produção de cartazes contra o bullying homofóbico e transfóbico a serem distribuídos em escolas, acompanhados de material informativo sobre orientação sexual e identidade de género; pela organização de acções de formação sobre identidade de género e orientação sexual dirigidas a professores e profissionais que trabalham com jovens; e pela realização de um estudo sobre o bullying homofóbico e transfóbico em meio escolar, conduzido por investigadores do ISCTE-IUL.


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quarta-feira, 19 de janeiro de 2011

LES Online - Vol. 2, No 2 (2010): Lesbianismo e educação

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http://www.lespt.org/lesonline/

Convidamos todas e todos a visitarem a LES Online para terem acesso aos artigos.

LES Online
Vol. 2, No 2 (2010): Lesbianismo e educação | Lesbianism and education

Sumário

Artigos | Articles
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Editorial (português) (1-2)
Equipa Editorial

Editorial (english) (1-2)
Editorial Team

The educational experiences of lesbian-mother families: a south Australian
study | As experiências educacionais de famílias de mães lésbicas: um
estudo no sul da Austrália (3-13)
Damien W. Riggs

Desconstruindo preconceitos sobre a homoparentalidade | Deconstructing
prejudices about lesbian and gay parenting (14-21)
Jorge Gato, Anne Marie Fontaine

Homofobia internalizada e suicidalidade em jovens LGB e não LGB |
Internalized homophobia and suicidality in LGB and non LGB youngsters
(22-34)
Patrícia Rodrigues

Estrategias de afrontamiento frente al acoso escolar: una mirada sobre las
chicas masculinas | Coping strategies against bullying: a closer look at
masculine girls (35-51)
Raquel Platero

Ainda, apenas fantasmas | So far, only ghosts (52-59)
São José Almeida


Recensões | Book reviews
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Recensão do livro / Book review: Preciado, B. (2008). Testo Junkie: sexe,
drogue et biopolitique. Paris: Grasset & Fasquelle (60-70)
Anabela Rocha

Reseña del libro / Recensão do livro: Platero, R. (Cord.) (2008).
Lesbianas, discursos y representaciones. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Espanha:
Editorial Melusina. (71-76)
Sara Lafuente Funes

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