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Dan & Chantale: The Value of Support Programs for LGBTQ Youth

21/8/2018

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Keywords:
LGBTQ sex ed, allies, Classroom Closet, workshops, teacher training, parents, allies, GSA, gay-straight alliance, community organization
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Tara: Your high school is a French school?

Dan: Yes.

Tara: And part of the Catholic board?

Dan: No, public.

Chantale: French public.

Tara: French public board, okay. Has your school taken on any sex-ed since you’ve been in school?

Dan: We do have, um -- for the LGBT group at my school  we go to “Classroom Closet”. 

Chantale: It’s a conference.

Dan: And there are sex-ed classes there.

Tara: Okay.

Dan: That we take part in. And it’s very open to, like, even if you’re just an ally, you wanna go and there’s LGBTQ sex-ed classes there. But there haven’t been--we had sex-ed classes in grade seven and eight. Um, but not in high school.

Tara: I’m very interested in Classroom Closet. Can you tell me a little bit about that program and, um, what else do they do  except sex-ed and who goes and do you like it?

Dan: Yes I really like it, of course. We have-- so Classroom Closet, there’s a bunch of different speakers come in and do, um, kind of speeches and group discussions and stuff. There’s different, um--

Chantale: Like sharing of their stores, different stories. And there’s different, um, workshops you can take.

Tara: Okay.

Chantale: And they have some geared to the students and they also offer some geared to--

Dan: Staff.

Chantale: Staff. Staff of schools, parents, or allies, anybody, like, can go and take these different workshops that they offer during that weekend of Classroom Closet.  So it’s an annual thing.

Dan: It’s for a day, during the school day.

Tara: Okay.

Dan: Um, we go with my LGBT group at my school and pretty much every school that has a GSA will take their GSA to there. And the workshops, and sex-ed is one of them. There’s some that are about mindfulness, about a bunch of different things.  How to be more active and, like, supportive and stuff like that.

Tara: And who puts that on? Is it the school board or is it a community organization?

​Chantale: It’s a community organization here in the community, Réseau ACCESS.
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