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Colombian Lesbian Students Not Wanted at Their School

10:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia|GLBT

29 Apr 2008

The following video should horrify you. It shows two young Colombian women, returning to register at their high school after a court ordered that they be allowed to go back to school. The student body is gathered outside, screaming: “We don’t want them!”. Why would the 16 and 17 year
girls need a court order to get an education? Why do the students and the principal not want these girls in the school. The girls are lesbians and were expelled. According to the principal, the girls were expelled for disciplinary reasons. The court disagreed and ruled that the principal was “unclear” in the reasons for letting the students go.

Despite the “We don’t want you” shouts one of the students that organized the protest – who is shown with her face against the camera – insists that the protest is not against the two girls but a defense of the dignity of the school’s students. “They [claim] that we are school purely made up by lesbians, and, no, things aren’t like that,” she tells Caracol.


In the meantime, a Facebook group has been formed to fight homophobia in Colombian high schools, and some are calling for an annual Colombian version of the Day of Silence demonstration similar to those that just took place in the United States this week.
In the meantime the two girls are supposed to return to class full time on Monday.

Via / Blabbeando

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