Celebrating Sexual Diversity at Kew High School

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Celebrating Sexual Diversity at Kew High School

• CD_at_Q

Faye Harding from Kew HS. has given the SEA
Network permission to display this presentation
on the Celebrating Diversity website.
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What is CD_at_Q?

• CD_at_Q is the catchy acronym for the Celebrating
  Sexual Diversity at Kew High School group.
• CD_at_Q was formed to enable students to help the
  school community better celebrate sexual
  diversity.

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Who is CD_at_Q for?

• CD_at_Q is open to any student at Kew High School.
• CD_at_Q is not for students of any particular
  sexuality.
• CD_at_Q is not about your sexuality, it is about
  your attitude towards sexuality.

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What do we mean by sexuality?

• Sexual Orientation and Sexuality The nature of a
  person's basic emotional and sexual attraction to
  other people. Some people's sexual orientation is
  mainly towards people of the opposite sex -
  heterosexual for others it is mainly towards
  people of the same sex homosexual/same sex
  attracted and for some it is towards either sex
  - bisexual.

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What do we mean by celebrating sexual diversity?

• Learning to celebrate the fact that there a range
  of sexualities in our school community.
• Recognising that not everyone identifies as
  heterosexual.
• Knowing that research has established that
  between 7 and 11 of secondary students identify
  as same sex attracted (that could be as many as
  100 students at Kew HS).
• Remembering that everyone has the right to feel
  safe and accepted at school, regardless of their
  sexuality.

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Why?

• Josephs story

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Discuss Josephs story

• Discuss Josephs story, but there are certain
  circumstances under which you can do this.
• To help your discussion, consider the following
  questions/statements
• How and why was Joseph bullied and harassed by
  other students?
• The school helped Joseph as much as possible.
• What do you think happened to Joseph?
• Homophobia is the same as racism and sexism.

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What you can do?

• We know that teachers are busy people and that
  there are many demands placed on them. However,
  you can help Kew High School better celebrate
  sexual diversity and reduce homophobia by
• Assuming that at least 10 of people in the
  school community identify as same sex attracted.
• Responding to anti-gay, anti-lesbian and
  homophobic abuse in the same way you would
  respond to racism or sexism.