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

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AM: I th<strong>in</strong>k with the LGBT History Month um, its <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g you say<strong>in</strong>g about visibility,<br />

cos it started <strong>in</strong> 2004 <strong>and</strong> we are <strong>in</strong> 2008 now, as somebody who is fairly active <strong>in</strong> the<br />

LGBT community <strong>and</strong> who is <strong>in</strong> her middle middle twenties lesbian woman, until last<br />

year I hadn’t heard of it…<br />

SS: {Right}<br />

AM: …but now, this year <strong>and</strong> last year, I’ve noticed sort of as a slightly mature student at<br />

University <strong>and</strong> not <strong>in</strong> a school sett<strong>in</strong>g, it is there…<br />

SS: {yeah}<br />

AM: …<strong>and</strong> it’s not just <strong>in</strong> schools…<br />

SS: {yes}<br />

AM: …so Universities are tak<strong>in</strong>g it on board…<br />

SS: {good}<br />

AM: …<strong>and</strong> I’ve got to know um the chair of the LGBT assembly at our university who is<br />

only 19, she’s an undergraduate <strong>and</strong> she’s there do<strong>in</strong>g lots of stuff dur<strong>in</strong>g February for<br />

LGBT History Month…<br />

SS: {brill}<br />

AM: …<strong>and</strong> they are l<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g up with Leeds Metropolitan <strong>and</strong> I know that other<br />

universities are do<strong>in</strong>g stuff…<br />

SS: {yes, Clare Anderson who was an NUS…<br />

AM: {yes, I know of her}<br />

SS: …yeah yeah she was sort of nomily a member of the committee but NUS work<br />

<strong>in</strong>evitably took you know…<br />

AM: {yeah of course}<br />

SS: …took over her, but you know she would have pushed it a bit. And I th<strong>in</strong>k [//] it was<br />

clearly ripe <strong>and</strong> I th<strong>in</strong>k what <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g is that IDAHO was born <strong>in</strong> the same year, I<br />

mean, 2004 was our birth, I I mean I launched it at, I mean I took such a punt, I went to<br />

an Amnesty meet<strong>in</strong>g…<br />

AM: {right}<br />

SS: …which was launch<strong>in</strong>g Love <strong>and</strong> Homophobia, um, Love, Hate <strong>and</strong> Homophobia…<br />

AM: {Love is a Human Right?

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