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‘They play with a pack of cards, and one card is the gay card. Whoever ends up with the card is the “gay boy” for the day. These boys are nine years old.’
Primary school teacher, Sussex. Extract from Homophobic Bullying, Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2007.
A harmless joke? A trivial matter? Boys being boys? If the card had been assigned a racist term, would we think differently about this incident?
Half of all teachers do not challenge homophobic language when they hear it. The ...
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