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Destabilizing Anti-Gay Environments through Gay-Straight Alliances: Possibilities and Limitations through Shifting Discourses

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Drawing upon research with Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) advisors, high-school principals, and two district-level administrators, we examine the potential and limits of the safe-space discourse that encompasses the aims of GSAs. We argue that this discourse conceals heteronormative school environments, which supplies the groundwork for hostility perpetrated against LGBT students. We then delineate three strategies–organizational, pedagogical, and systemic–toward altering the safe-space discourse to a forward-looking, social-justice discourse that fosters the eradication of heteronormative school processes.

Source: The Clearing House A Journal of Educational Strategies Issues and Ideas

DOI: 10.1080/00098655.2011.611190

Authors: Sean Currie, Maralee Mayberry, Tiffany Chenneville

Institutions: University of South Florida, University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Sexuality, and Education

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1599963088

FWCI: 7.099

Cites: 10

Cited by: 41

Related to: 10