Homophobi The Impact Of Bullying Towards LGBT Students

Homophobia is an issue that exists in Oakland schools today where students that are are part of the LGBT identities get bullied and harassed by their peers due to the their sexual identity. This leads students to think of school as an unsafe environment as they take in the harsh words spoken to them seriously. In my survey taken by 188 Oakland Tech students, 50.3% of the survey respondents have seen people getting bullied and harassed by their peers based on their sexual identity at school. As the many members of the LGBTQ identities get targeted based on their sexual identity, many of their peers doing this do not see it as an issue. This leads to students continuing to bully others on the sexual identity. This causes many students start feel a lack of safety in their own school knowing that when they go to school they would be targeted with hateful and rude comments by other students. Also, the mind of those being targeted distracts them from the main reason why they go to …show more content…
The impact of bullying towards LGBT students is harsh knowing that they can’t trust anyone at school as they have to return 5/7 days of the week to face the problem again.

In order to reduce the amount of instances where students are bullied and harassed due to their sexual identities, I ask Mr. Grossman to create a curriculum in English classes where there is a unit around homophobia at schools in order to educate students. Students would read stories that talks about the lives of those who are part of the LGBTQ identities such as “Queer Narratives.” Though we have read a short story on LGBTQ identities once this year, this needs to happen more often, because the idea of homophobia might not have clicked into their minds. As students read more about the LGBTQ identities 2-3 times in the school year, they might feel that there is a connection between the