How can I justify loving a place that wants to protect its right to reject me and people like me?
Lily and I have an extra layer of sibling closeness because we’re members of an exclusive sibling club: the “we’re both gay” kind. Except we’re not the same – our high school experiences were radically different. My sister, Lily, woke on Monday to the letter. Signed by 34 leaders of Sydney’s Anglican schools, it defends the right for religious schools to discriminate against teachers and students like us. On the metro to school, I saw a message from Dad in the family group chat. A link to the letter – “Look who signed it”.
I graduated from Trinity Grammar School in Sydney last year. Trinity’s new headmaster, Tim Bowden, signed the letter. The school where I spent the last 12 years of my life, chose to openly advocate for homophobia. Lily graduated from a Uniting Church school in 2015, a school with a very different approach to LGBT students and teachers. We immediately Skyped each other. Staring at each other’s faces, countries apart, we both wore the same expression – exhaustion. We may have graduated school, but our anger has lingered.
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