Entries in homophobia (7)
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 12:37PM Tim and Laura, Marriage Equality Rally, Brisbane
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Post a Comment | tagged Community, La Trobe University, Melbourne, homophobia | Share Article | Email Article Friday, January 21, 2011 at 11:52AM Program to take on homophobia in schools
''No idea what to do'' ... William Field, a youth worker, was beaten and abused at school for being gay. A new program aims to improve attitudes towards gay students. Photo: Steven Siewert
WILLIAM FIELD knows first hand the pain that homophobia can inflict. The 21-year-old dropped out of two high schools after he was beaten and abused for being gay.
He said teachers often responded to his complaints by saying he should not talk about his sexuality.
''I had no idea what to do and I'd come home crying every day because I had no one like me and people were saying I was a girl,'' he said. ''It would have been so good to have had people in school who could tell us what it was like, or speakers who could tell us what it was like, to be gay.''
Friday, May 21, 2010 at 10:14AM ACON Slams AFL Player's Homophobic Comments
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20/05/10 - Australia’s largest community-based gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) health organisation has expressed concern at comments from AFL player Jason Akermanis who has called for gay AFL players to keep their sexuality private.
In his regular column for various publications, Western Bulldogs midfielder Jason Akermanis has told gay players not to ‘come out’ because the world of AFL is not ready to accept them.
ACON CEO Nicolas Parkhill says Mr Akermanis’ comments are ignorant and dangerous.
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 3:05PM Speak Up
Launched in February 2009, the Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project’s ‘Speak Up’ campaign aims to increase the number of GLBT people who report homophobic violence to the police and to the Anti-Violence Project (AVP). Key partners for the campaign are NSW Police Force and City of Sydney.
Reports of homophobic violence to the AVP increase during the summer and fear of homophobic violence and hostility is especially high over the Mardi Gras period.
AVP co-ordinator Nancy de Castro said the Anti-Violence Project wants to motivate the GLBT community to report for reasons beyond the specific incident, to speak up in order to make the overall issue of homophobic violence visible. “Reporting is vital, we need to make sure police and the AVP have a true picture of when, where, and how often violence is happening in order for us to try to stop it”.
