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GLBTQ
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning
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Exercise 7
Creating
Safe Schools for Lesbian and Gay Students
Values
Clarification
by Youth Pride, Inc
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The purpose
of this exercise is to allow students an opportunity, in a nonjudgmental atmosphere,
to look at their own values. This exercise should generate discussion about why
students think the way they do about sexual orientation and gender.
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Read a
statement (see below).
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Have students
go to one side of the room if they agree and the other side if they disagree.
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Explain
to students that their level of agreement/disagreement can be on a continuum.
However, they can't be right in the middle.
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Ask the
students to discuss why they are on the side they are.
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Below is a list of value
statements.
You can change them around for the sake of this exercise. |
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I can
tell by looking at a person if they are lesbian, gay or bisexual.
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I think
a disproportionate number of child molesters are gay men.
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I believe
homosexuality is "cured" by psychotherapy.
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I believe
the majority of lesbian, gay and bisexual people don't "flaunt" their sexuality.
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I believe
AIDS is a disease that afflicts people of all sexual orientations.
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I believe
people who are lesbian, gay or bisexual work in all types of jobs, and they live
in all types of situations.
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I think
gay men are readily identified by their effeminate mannerisms, high-pitched voices
and talents in the arts.
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I believe
lesbians choose their lifestyle because they hate and fear men.
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I believe
bisexuals are really people who are either gay or lesbian.
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I think
having homosexual parents can cause homosexuality.
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I believe
that, in a same-sex couple, one is the female and the other is the male.
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