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

young LGBT people of LGB people, we don’t know about the T’s, I’m sure there have
been some T suicides…
AM: {Yeah}
SS: ...that we don’t know about. Um, it hasn’t become such a core celeb. We when do
hear about suicides they are always white kids….
AM: {yeah}
SS: …now I know they’ll be black kids committing suicide because they are LGBT, why
don’t we know about them? Why don’t the press pick up on that?
AM: Yep.
SS: Um, you know we’ve got the Army marching in full uniform in this Pride [//]
AM: Right.
SS: And we’ve still not got a DCSF that is [//] celebrating and acknowledging its LGBT
teachers, sufficiently. I mean they did a little. Four years ago they had a couple of gay
teachers um in Teacher, you know the thing that they produce.
AM: Yep.
SS: That’s on the Schools Out website. They’ve just done the Teachers TV week where
they had two or three programmes.
AM: Yeah, I was rather disappointed with that though. Although the programmes they
showed were good. When I was told, Teacher TV, homophobia in schools week, I was
expecting loads of programmes. And actually…
SS: {Well they did, I mean the gay teaches I think was the one that they made
themselves…
AM: {yeah}
SS: …and the others were the ones that they they were coming from the Channel 4
programme.
AM: Yeah, that’s what I thought, because the Gay to Z and the Batty Man, which are
both excellent resources…
SS: {yeah}
AM: …but they are channel 4 resources.
SS: That’s right.