Non-Normative Gender and Sexual Identities in Schools: - Schools Out

V: …my poor head it still hurts. Um and of course I didn’t understand how things worked
but I knew I wasn’t normal, well normal to other people. Um and I asked and because of
my school wasn’t the nicest of schools they thought I was asking to get the rest of the
class rowdy cos it was still like…
AM: {What to get a reaction?}
V: …no like to because it was like an outside women who came in, for them to cause
trouble for her and I got like sent to the head of years and it was before I got outed at
school, by Johnny, idiot um and it was, it was I don’t, that was bad it was like it was
nothing and it was like but what about two girls, two men, you know stop trying that Von
and just like what and…
H: {that is part of what’s sort of like assumed.
V: {it was crap}
AM: Yeah.
W: When we was doing sex ed I think my teacher knew sumin’ about me, cos she
thought I were like perving on her or sumin’ but she was like muntin’ anyway…
T: {what were she leaning over like this?}
W: …well she was like, every question she asked me in sex ed the answer was penis, so I
found it quite amusing for two years.
T: Oh no, I find the best lesson right, um well the worst lesson, RE because know I’m gay
at RE and I’m an atheist, I’ll probably get an ‘e’ or something. But we had this one lesson
on homo, homosexuality and he made me do a poster Mr Withy, right and it was,
everybody else got like wealth and stuff like that and I got homosexuality, you know
them like bathroom signs that you get, I were like, the females that only have one leg…
{laughter}
T: …right I I I had two of them stood next to each other holding hands yeah he went you
cant do that and I went why, its on homosexuality and he went that’s that’s that’s just
silly and then we had a lesson talking about um like views on it in the, in Christianity,
which is really rubbish and I’m not even gonna get into that and …
V: {oh it’s fun, my Dad protested at pride and I was on a float, I was outed, I was like
hello}
T: …forty-five minutes of a lesson I was arguing with my teacher about homosexuality.
So everybody else had to carry on writing and doing the posters and I were just
screaming in his face saying you’re a horrible cunt get away from me…
{laughter}