Coming out at school

Q Boy, the gay rapper, presents an interesting report on how more LGBT teens are coming out at school. He returns to his old school where he suffered from homophobic bullying. Back in my school days (late 60s and early 70s) the gay rights movement was in its infancy in Ireland but I came out quite early at 19, after having left school, and went on to be one of the LGBT veteran activists in Ireland in the late 70s. Intolerance in Ireland at that time made coming out at all very difficult and I did experience bullying at work and elsewhere. Really good that teens are coming out now and challenging school place homophobic bullying which is a real problem in this country. One of the best quotes in this report is: " you do not choose who you fall in love with." A lot more work needs to be done in this area in schools.