School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youth

They're there--they're just invisible. An the present hostile state of school systems is to blame for their seeming disappearance. In School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youth, readers will get an eye-opening look at the heterosexist blindness that has make it nearly impossible for gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth to enjoy a supportive, celebratory, and welcome environment in schools. This proactive collection features the viewpoints of youth advocates, school teachers, administrators, and academic researchers who are currently seeking to break down the walls of discrimination, harassment, and brutality that continue to make sexual minorities vulnerable at school.

First sentence: Identity and career developmental theories notwithstanding, many lesbian and gay young people spend their adolescence traversing the minefields of coming out and handling homophobia instead of traveling the merely rocky road of personal, sexual, and vocational identity development that characterizes adolescence for most young people.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Haworth Press

Editions

2

Pages

115

ISBN

9781560231097

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