As a teacher federation, ETFO has a lot in common with other unions and teacher federations.
During International Day Against Homophobia, I chose to read the picture book Molly’s Family to my kindergarten class to help them understand diversity in families. All my students were engaged and interested. I was both excited and intrigued by their c
Gabe's journey began when he was a little boy of eight in public school. By the time he was in grade 12, he had been living with homophobia every day since he started high school. The day he had enough and physically fought back was the day I stopped hoping he would be okay in school.
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I n September 2007, two grade 12 students from Central Kings Rural High School in Cambridge, Nova Scotia, heard about a male grade 9 student who was bullied for wearing a pink shirt on the first day of school. David Shepherd and Travis Price decided to take action.
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Many identify the Stonewall Riots as the beginning of political organization by the gay community in North America. In June 1969, the patrons of New York’s Stonewall Bar, several of them persons of colour, rose up to protest police harassment, arrests, and humiliation.
For almost 30 years Anne Bishop has worked in the field of international development and has been part of groups struggling to achieve social justice.