LGBT In School

[Ahab]

I've getting fucking sick of my old school and how they've treated the LGBT youth at my school. Two friends of mine, one who is a Female to male transsexual, and one who is a gay male have been repeatedly been pushed around by the administration.

For starts, my female to male friend. He's seventeen, just finished his junior year, and is a very nice person. Moved to Dallas recently and has been on testosterone a year and a half and you can't tell a damn thing about his biological gender (which he'll change in December of this year when he turns 18 and gets his breasts removed. Well, for starts, the ever so progressive school I go to not only made him publicly disclose his biological gender, they suspended him for several weeks for "cross dressing" and "crossing gender identity roles". After getting back, not only did he lose credit, he became the laughing stock of the school. Sound messed up, eh? Well, in summer school, the math teacher said to him "Admit that you're a fucking dyke", and although he sent in a report weeks ago, nothing has been done to even warn the teacher.

Then lets go to my gay friend for a minute. He's not the brightest guy in the world, and he told someone that gossips to a lot of people. His entire cover got blown, and kids began to harass him. Not harass him like say "Fag!"; I mean actually harass the guy using physical violence. As a result, he was forced to come out to his parents (who are Born again Christians who believe the earth is, oh, God only knows, 5,000 years old?) to explain why he was being beaten up, and he's ended up without much financial support. He got fed up with it, and tried to report it to the schools, but they insisted he had no proof whatsoever and that all this was happening out of school (it wasn't.) Since the entire collapse of his social life and his relationship with his family, he's gone to a "Reparative therapy retreat" for six fucking weeks. He's been so cool about it, but if he cracks, I'm going to be fucking disgusted.

After those two stories, the question is, are your schools tolerant of gays and lesbians? Or are they intolerant like mine?

[Suicidal-kun]

I don't really know my school's tolerance, though I hope its better then your school's. That is some messed up shit they did to your friends.

[SoulRiser]

Damn... I really hope your friend is gonna be OK. That's some really screwed up shit

I can't remember anyone ever being openly gay at any of the schools I was at. People would call the weirdo's "gay" as an insult, that's about all I know of. And someone apparently spread a rumour that I was lesbian. Nobody really did anything though, but it does kinda explain a few weird reactions I got from people which made no sense at the time

[goodusername]

well half of my school really thinks im gay even though im not but i dont think there are any real gay people at my school.

[HeartofShadows]

At my school some guy act gay because it gets them the girls and its like a trend now or something. They come in wearing high heels and ear rings.

[Suicidal-kun]

Heart of shadows Wrote:At my school some guy act gay because it gets them the girls and its like a trend now or something. They come in wearing high heels and ear rings.

Isn't that called metrosexual or something like that? Where you dress and act like a gay but you're straight?

[HeartofShadows]

Suicidal-kun Wrote:

Heart of shadows Wrote:At my school some guy act gay because it gets them the girls and its like a trend now or something. They come in wearing high heels and ear rings.

Isn't that called metrosexual or something like that? Where you dress and act like a gay but you're straight?

No clue but I had friends who were gay and that old thing about them being feminine is bullshit.

[KittyKatBlack]

Suicidal-kun Wrote:

Heart of shadows Wrote:At my school some guy act gay because it gets them the girls and its like a trend now or something. They come in wearing high heels and ear rings.

Isn't that called metrosexual or something like that? Where you dress and act like a gay but you're straight?

Yeah, they had a South Park episode on that.

[HeartofShadows]

metrosexual- a heterosexual male who has a strong aesthetic sense and inordinate interest in appearance and style, similar to that of homosexual males.

[Suicidal-kun]

KittyKatBlack Wrote:

Suicidal-kun Wrote:

Heart of shadows Wrote:At my school some guy act gay because it gets them the girls and its like a trend now or something. They come in wearing high heels and ear rings.

Isn't that called metrosexual or something like that? Where you dress and act like a gay but you're straight?

Yeah, they had a South Park episode on that.

Oh yeah I remember that episode, it was pretty good.

[SoulRiser]

Do they have a term for everything these days? metrosexual... But it's just a clothing style? WTF?

[Suicidal-kun]

SoulRiser Wrote:
Do they have a term for everything these days? metrosexual... But it's just a clothing style? WTF?

It seems society has a need for classifying everything these days.

[Alucard483]

ya my school would come down hard on people CAUGHT teasing about that kind of stuff but other than that I dont think theyd do anything

[Will]

I know someone who lives in Texas, and he frequently talks about how everyone there except him is absurdly conservative, but I didn't realize they could be this crazy. What do their parents think about all this messed-up stuff at school?

[Abandoning Ship]

Homophobes annoy me...

And Zappa? FUCK your old schools LGBT treatment. Fucking homobphobics nazi pricks. I HATE that. They're the same at my old school as well.

[Suicidal-kun]

BigWolf Wrote:This is the reason I'm afraid to kiss boys in public, there's still quite a bit of discrimination out there.

That sucks, you should be able to kiss them in public if you wanted. Sadly my friend would be one of those people, he's a homophobe but I'm trying to get him to be less of a dick about it.

[Guest]

Zappa Wrote:Well, for starts, the ever so progressive school I go to not only made him publicly disclose his biological gender, they suspended him for several weeks for "cross dressing" and "crossing gender identity roles". After getting back, not only did he lose credit, he became the laughing stock of the school. Sound messed up, eh? Well, in summer school, the math teacher said to him "Admit that you're a fucking dyke", and although he sent in a report weeks ago, nothing has been done to even warn the teacher.

If that happened in my school I would give the teachers a week to apologize and make reparations and if they wouldn't I would fuck up their cars. And by "fuck up" I mean irreparably damaged. Such assholery gets me pissed off. I would rarely destroy others things or hurt them personally but the two things I can't stand are discrimination and fascism.

[Dark Soul X]

TheATXKiller Wrote:Homophobes annoy me...

Especially if they're friends turned traitors who mess with you for no good reason.

[Ahab]

wsgosset Wrote:I know someone who lives in Texas, and he frequently talks about how everyone there except him is absurdly conservative, but I didn't realize they could be this crazy. What do their parents think about all this messed-up stuff at school?

It's not overtly conservative. The cities (paticularly Austin) tend towards more liberal/moderate beliefs, but the towns SUCK. I happen to live by the city that was ranked 7th in most conservative, however.

TheATXKiller Wrote:Homophobes annoy me...

And Zappa? FUCK your old schools LGBT treatment. Fucking homobphobics nazi pricks. I HATE that. They're the same at my old school as well.

A-Men to that. I don't care if someone wants to think being queer is a disease. I know a few that do who I hold respect for because rather than picket, protest, and try to pass legislation in the name of their beliefs, they keep it to themselves and let people live their lives so long as they aren't commiting any real crime.

I'm glad I'm going to a new school because the school I'm going to is 1) a place to get your work done and 2) very anti-discriminatory. People don't suspect me or question my orientation (I'm the opposite of their stereotypical world: I'm a fat slob), but it was paranoia everyday when I did attend.

Kirby Wrote:If that happened in my school I would give the teachers a week to apologize and make reparations and if they wouldn't I would fuck up their cars. And by "fuck up" I mean irreparably damaged. Such assholery gets me pissed off. I would rarely destroy others things or hurt them personally but the two things I can't stand are discrimination and fascism.

Haha I'd probably do that but the school I went to is loaded up with cameras, and the cops are there like 24/7. It's a place where I got in trouble for laughing in the middle of class. But hey, its the magnum opus of right winged yuppies whos only concerns in life are getting that job promotion and whether the football team won or lost.

BigWolf Wrote:This is the reason I'm afraid to kiss boys in public, there's still quite a bit of discrimination out there.

What part of Texas do you live in?

[SoulRiser]

Wolf Wrote:Actually, when I was considering "coming out," I asked one of the guys on the team a hypothetical question... "What would you think of a gay guy on the team?"

His response surprised me a bit, even though it really shouldn't have, "I would beat the fucking shit out of him."

I said, "Lol."

And he replied with, "No dude, I'm not kidding at all, I'd seriously fuck 'im up."

Which left me like, "Lol... ._."

Scary...

I guess they're probably scared a gay guy would be perving on 'em in the locker rooms or something.

[Suicidal-kun]

SoulRiser Wrote:

Wolf Wrote:Actually, when I was considering "coming out," I asked one of the guys on the team a hypothetical question... "What would you think of a gay guy on the team?"

His response surprised me a bit, even though it really shouldn't have, "I would beat the fucking shit out of him."

I said, "Lol."

And he replied with, "No dude, I'm not kidding at all, I'd seriously fuck 'im up."

Which left me like, "Lol... ._."

What a dick, and a pretty scary one at that.

[Darthmat]

asshole.

[Dark Soul X]

Suicidal-kun Wrote:

SoulRiser Wrote:

Wolf Wrote:Actually, when I was considering "coming out," I asked one of the guys on the team a hypothetical question... "What would you think of a gay guy on the team?"

His response surprised me a bit, even though it really shouldn't have, "I would beat the fucking shit out of him."

I said, "Lol."

And he replied with, "No dude, I'm not kidding at all, I'd seriously fuck 'im up."

Which left me like, "Lol... ._."

What a dick, and a pretty scary one at that.

*Gets pissed, big time*

I hope the fucker dies of a lethal AIDS injection in jail.

[Darthmat]

[Suicidal-kun]

Dark Soul X Wrote:

Suicidal-kun Wrote:

SoulRiser Wrote:

Wolf Wrote:Actually, when I was considering "coming out," I asked one of the guys on the team a hypothetical question... "What would you think of a gay guy on the team?"

His response surprised me a bit, even though it really shouldn't have, "I would beat the fucking shit out of him."

I said, "Lol."

And he replied with, "No dude, I'm not kidding at all, I'd seriously fuck 'im up."

Which left me like, "Lol... ._."

What a dick, and a pretty scary one at that.

*Gets pissed, big time*

I hope the fucker dies of a lethal AIDS injection in jail.

Me too.

[Alucard483]

Yet again I must state that Im against the whole homo thing but what they do has gone to far.

[HeartofShadows]

Wolf Wrote:

Zappa Wrote:What part of Texas do you live in?

El Paso. I believe it's one of the more liberal towns of Texas, but this city is very heavily Catholic, and of course, Catholics (in general) love persecuting the queers, so even if the political views are more liberal here, it still has a rather conservative view on gays.

What also puts me in a difficult position would be I'm on the football team at my high school, and stereotypically, jocks hate gays with a passion, and the majority of my teammates would definitely fit the jock stereotype, at least that aspect of it. I was considering "coming out," but soon realized I would suffer quite a bit of... "turbulence" if I did, so I'm playing it like R. Kelly and chillin' in the closet for a while, which actually disappoints me because I strongly encourage being yourself no matter who doesn't like it.

Actually, when I was considering "coming out," I asked one of the guys on the team a hypothetical question... "What would you think of a gay guy on the team?"

His response surprised me a bit, even though it really shouldn't have, "I would beat the fucking shit out of him."

I said, "Lol."

And he replied with, "No dude, I'm not kidding at all, I'd seriously fuck 'im up."

Which left me like, "Lol... ._."

Sometimes humanity makes me really lose faith in them.

[Suicidal-kun]

Heart of shadows Wrote:Sometimes humanity makes me really lose faith in them.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

[HeartofShadows]

Man I admit to people I have nothing against gay people and all they do is call me gay.
Man and getting angry really does nothing but start a chain reaction.
*SIGH* It sucks when you realize Fighting and hating is pointless.

[Pyrokinetic_Punker]

we have a lot of posters up at school that say things like "we accept all sexualities" and "some people like boys, some people like girls, some people like both" and other nice things like that, they have pictures of rainbows and stuff on them. I know a lot of bisexual people at my school too but no gay people...at my old school (a Catholic all girl's school) we were always being told that homsexuality is a sin and one of my friends got a detention for saying the word "lesbian" because apparently it's a swear word. I'm happy the teachers are more accepting at my new school than at my old school but the students are mostly homophobic.

People were hypocritical at both my schools, at my first school people called me lesbian because I liked to hug my friends a lot but the same people who called me a lesbian used to compare breast sizes, ask people if they'd gotten bigger over the holidays etc. doesn't anyone else find this a bit odd? Now at my new school, there's these three boys in my drama class who always pretend to be gay with each other, like they pretend to kiss each other and pretend to have butt sex with each other and lots of other suss stuff like that (the teachers don't really care about it, only if they're disrupting the class) yet one of the boys called another guy a fag for wearing eyeliner -_-" people are stupid.