- Ninety six per cent of gay pupils
hear homophobic remarks such as «poof» or «lezza» used in school.
When
they hear homophobic epithets, they often ignore the behavior, for example.
Over 50 % reported
hearing homophobic or negative remarks about gender expression from their teachers or other school staff.
Not exact matches
If I remember correctly, the organization of which you are a part is perceived as
homophobic, so the comments that get thrown your direction are probably much different than the comments I
hear among the culture I am part of, which includes many LGBTQ people.
You
heard it here first: Dave D1 endorses the use of
homophobic slurs.
I think it is incredibly important for all New Yorkers, but particularly those in public life, to make very clear that in this city, the most diverse city in the world, the city where the LGBT civil rights movement was born, that that type of language can not be tolerated... I think that all of us need to recommit to making sure that whenever we
hear language of any type that is demeaning, derogatory, racist, sexist,
homophobic, anything of that nature that we speak out against it.»
A few others that made my personal list which are nowhere here: Motel Hell, The People Under the Stairs, Wolfen, Ginger Snaps, Dead & Buried, Bride of Chucky, Deranged (1972), Misery, Cat People (1982), Fright Night (no, I still don't see what's supposed to be
homophobic about the movie even though I would love to
hear Ed's theories), the ever unfairly maligned Scream, the entirely fairly maligned Clownhouse, and I, Madman.
The glsen report found that a third of transgender students have
heard school staff make remarks that were
homophobic, sexist, and generally negative about someone's gender expression.
Berger helped the students track all the
homophobic and transphobic epithets they
heard over the course of a week, and gave that list to school administrators.
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said: «It is deeply worrying that some LGBTI teachers report experiencing and
hearing more
homophobic language within schools and that incidents of hate crime and hate speech have increased more generally.
Besides the increase in bullying based on race and ethnicity, Villenas finds it particularly troubling that students continue to report
hearing school staff members make remarks that are sexist (21 %),
homophobic (15 %), racist (14 %), or otherwise negative relating to students» gender expression (26 %), academic ability (23 %) or religion (14 %).
I argued that our legislature could not have intended that every racial slur or sexist remark or
homophobic taunt would be the subject of a Human Rights
hearing (in the Schrenk case scheduled for 5 days!)