In school I get bullied like every day all because i am gay I have been beaten up my bike got nicked then i got mugged then beaten up again pretty much everyday.
also everyone calls me a puff head just cause i smoke weed cause i can not cope with it all my X left me because he said i was moaning to much about it.
and to put the icing on the f***kin cake about 1 week ago i got beaten up out side school just because he heard that i was gay and he did not even know me. lol fucked up world
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Zeon,
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An interesting debate. As I left school in 1982 section 28 was never an issue.I suffered a bit of bullying but that was because I was a fat kid from a middle class family. I hadnt acepted my sexuality at the time and I don't think it caused me to be bullied. I had one friend who was gay and came out to a few close friends by the time we were in the sixth form , and he was bullied a lot, but in hindsight I don't think it was directly homophobic. Rether, because he knew he was gay , at a time and in a place ( rural mid wales) where that was unthinkable that made him feel , and act vulnerable because of the secret he was hiding and bulies have a way of latching onto vulnerability.
I also remember one younger kid who suffered a fair amount of bullying, but I only found out years later he was gay. Again i think he atracted the attention of the bullies not directly because of the fact he was gay, but because his was of coping/hiding was by being something of a comedian, which just made him a target in another way.
Looking back I think that bizzarely section 28 had in the long term probably been beneficial to the gay community. It certainly gave us a cause to rally around, and may have helped ignite the campaigning spirit that has eventualy led to an equal age of consent and civil partnerships.
When s28 was brought in by Thatcher's govermnent , it was done really as a propaganda exercise to show they were dealing with what they portrayed as the 'threat' of 'loony left /militant ' councils tthat were 'promoting homosexuality' . (as an aside as someone active on the left in student politics in the mid 1980's I recall that in fact the Militant Tendency always had a reputation for being somewhat homophobic).
The number of councils concerned were few, largely in inner london. By passing section 28 Thatchers government ensured that the issue of homosexuality , in schools ceased to be 'the love that dare not speak its name' which could be ignored, but then became an issue that every local education authority and school board of governers in the country had to consider, even if only in the context that they had to consider whether they were doing anything that could be construed as breaching its provisions.
By turning what was a local issue in a few boroughs into a national one the tories actually created an argument that eventually they lost.
An historical 'own goal'?
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