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

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V: I’m bisexual but I’m only bi-sexual so I can kiss a boy, kiss a girl <strong>in</strong> front of a boy <strong>and</strong><br />

make them horn…<br />

U: {I know}<br />

V: …so that they will come on to me, sorry!<br />

(<strong>in</strong>audible)<br />

AM: Ok um yes, anyone else [//] about what they th<strong>in</strong>k helped most the most <strong>in</strong> their<br />

sexual identity development?<br />

B: Um my best friend Jess.<br />

AM: Ok.<br />

V: Awwwww!<br />

B: Basically she came out before me as bisexual <strong>and</strong> went out with one of my other best<br />

mates…<br />

AM: {right<br />

B: …<strong>and</strong> um that all ended up really bad but um we just um we just, when I came out<br />

about two years after her because I’d seen all the rubbish she’d got <strong>in</strong> when she was be<strong>in</strong>g<br />

bi um basically we just went through it together <strong>and</strong> then I went with my first girlfriend<br />

um we went through com<strong>in</strong>g out together <strong>in</strong> high school. It was like proper (<strong>in</strong>audible)<br />

me mates.<br />

AM: So did you see your friend, was she the same age as you or a bit older?<br />

B: She’s a bit older.<br />

AM: Did you see her as a bit of a role model?<br />

B: Um, not really no.<br />

AM: No? Ok, I was just wonder<strong>in</strong>g whether any anyone th<strong>in</strong>ks it may have helped if they<br />

had adults, teachers possibly, as k<strong>in</strong>d of role models, not necessarily gay, but supportive<br />

of [//] yeah I suppose gay…<br />

D: {Someone to get all your friends to look up to yeah, they’d be seen as a role model…<br />

T: {my, my…<br />

V: {Me Mum <strong>and</strong> me Aunty Alison.<br />

AM: As role models?

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