A panel of students says anti-gay slurs are heard constantly in area high schools.
"The terms 'That's so gay' and 'No homo'… are thrown around quite a bit," according to Anna Beardsley, a senior at Battlefield High School in Haymarket, Virginia, who added, "No one knows how to stop it."
Beardsley was one of six students at a midday forum, Saturday, at the Unitarian Church of Arlington. Sometimes, the kids said, the homophobic slurs are accompanied by physical attacks.
"You cannot walk in the halls [at Langley High School] without hearing someone shouting. 'You're gay. You're a faggot.', said Zack Sanders, a former student at the school, who added that openly gay students are pushed, "into lockers, pushing people into bathrooms, um, in the locker room, having people throw food and drink at you over other lockers."
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8 comments:
Well it looks like nothing's changed since 1968 when I was in high school! I guess if you swish around and profess to the others that you're gay, you open yourself up. Shut up, MYOB and go to class to learn the subject matter. What you do at home should stay there.
thats because being gay is a sickness!
There are many sins done by man and when you ask for forgiveness please remember that lying is one of them!
Its a shame when children know its wrong yet the government wants to cram it down our throats!
playing the victim card until they turn into the perpetrator.
Anonymous 3:40pm
Truer words have never been spoken!
Kids don't think it's wrong. They hear those idiotic comments from their biggot, narrow minded, uneducated parents. Stupid is as stupid does!
10:07 Yep unnatural says it all..the talk does not have to be biggoted just honest..God made man and women as well as in the animal kingdom for a reason
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