Gay bullying

What is homophobic bullying?

Homophobic bullying is behaviour or language which makes a little person feel unwelcome or marginalised because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation.

The main factors which influence whether or not a person is a target of homophobic bullying are:

• People perceive that you have a particular sexual orientation, because you fit lesbian, gay or bisexual person stereotypes. These stereotypes are based on a societal basis involving traditional gender roles or traits that are inaccurate. E.g.softly spoken boys or girls with short hair.

How is homophobic bullying displayed?

Like all forms of bullying, homophobic bullying can occur in diverse ways such as sentimental, verbal, physical or sexual.

Some of the more ordinary forms of homophobic bullying include:

• Verbal bullying (being teased or called names, or having derogatory terms used to describe you, or hate speech used against you)
• Being compared to LGBT celebrities / caricatures / characters that portray particular stereotypes of LGBT people
• Being ‘outed’ (the threat of being exposed to your friends and family by them being told that you are LGLBT even when you are not)
• Indirect bullying
  

  New CDC Data Shows LGBTQ Youth are More Likely to be Bullied Than Straight Cisgender Youth

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  CDC Releases National Youth Uncertainty Behavior Surveillance Results

  Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the national Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance results for 2019. It’s transparent from the national numbers that many LGBTQ juvenile people continue to experience higher health and suicide risks than their peers. This follows the matching trends present in an HRC analysis of the 2015 and 2017 facts -- LGBTQ students are more likely to life victimization, violence and suicidality. In many areas of the data, transgender students are facing more disparities in 2019 than they were in 2017.

  The facts show that 43% of transgender youth have been bullied on school property. 29% of transgender youth, 21% of gay and lesbian youth and 22% of bisexual youth possess attempted suicide.

  Since the YRBS began including data on sexual orientation in 2015 and gender identity in 2017, we’ve seen consistently that LGBTQ youth confront greater health disparities than their cisgender straight peers. This data co

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  By Karen Ocamb, special to the Desert Sun

  In the 1950s and early 1960s, being punched, shoved into lockers and toilet bowls, and existence called “sissy” were just a part of growing up. Even the wholesome TV show “Leave It to Beaver” had regular bullies Eddie Haskell and Lumpy Rutherford who learned some lesson in the end, only to restore in the next episode with some power scheme that involved running roughshod over Beaver. For Beaver and millions of boys like him, dealing with bullying was a rite of passage to manhood.

  But now Eddie Haskell has moved into the Light House and the moral sanctions against bullying imposed by a civilized population have vaporized. And LGBT kids know it. The night Donald Trump won the presidential election, the Trans Lifeline and the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention hotline for LGBT youth, reported receiving “a record number of calls” from those terrified about becoming easier targets for increased discrimination and abuse, according to Newsweek.com.

  A December 2016 report by Human Rights Watch indicates that LGBT young people acquire good reason to be afraid. While noting that lawmakers and school administrators during the past 15

  LGBTQ+ Bullying

  School can be challenging for any pupil, but many LGBTQ+ young people face an alarming amount of bullying and harassment. Homophobic and biphobic bullying is where people are discriminated against and treated unfairly by other people because they are woman loving woman, gay, bisexual, trans or questioning or perceived to be. People who are not lesbian, gay, multi-attracted , trans or questioning can also experience homophobic and biphobic bullying if someone thinks that they are.

  Transphobic bullying is where people are discriminated against and treated unfairly by other people because their gender identity doesn’t align with the sex they were assigned at birth or perhaps because they execute not conform to stereotyped gender roles or ‘norms’.

  (The above definition was taken from the LGBT Foundation )

  Like all forms of bullying, homophobic bullying can be through name calling, spreading rumours, online bullying, physical, sexual or emotional abuse and can include:

  • Making comments about a person’s gender or sexuality that deliberately makes them feel uncomfortable
  • Calling a person names or taunting them
  • Hitting, kicking, punching or physically hurting them
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