LGBT News Campaign to raise gender/sexuality diversity

BiPenguin · Oct 19, 2013

Hope this thread doesn't break forum rules.

There is a fundraising campaign to teach a program "All of Us" in the State of Victoria(Australia) in the high schools...

School curricula have come a long way in recent years in recognising sexual and gender diversity - but they rarely involve more than a passing reference and are often presented through a clinical lens in sex ed.

At Safe Schools Coalition Victoria (Safe Schools Coalition Victoria) and Minus18 (Minus18 - Home) we think it's time for that to change.

To do this, SSCV and Minus18 are supporting the creation of a video series which captures the lives of young LGBT people. These short films will illustrate their school and uni lives, their weekend adventures and their hopes for the future. They will include the basic stuff, the boring stuff, the things that every young person has to do. The aim? To show young Australians that their LGBT friends are no different from themselves. To dismantle the idea of diversity in the abstract and provide positive, real stories from young LGBT people.

The video series and accompanying lesson plans will allow any teacher, in any school to confidently inform students about the way the world is - diversity and all.

We need your help

In order to get these unit guides and lesson plans into schools around the country, we need your generous donations. Your donations will allow us to create, print, promote and send these powerful, school changing resources far and wide.

Teachers are pressed for time, and school cultures can be adverse to change. So we are working to create simple and clear, useful on the run resources.

All of Us | Indiegogo
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LGBT News Campaign to raise gender/sexuality diversity

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