LGBTQI+ allies: the Australian teachers standing up to homophobic slurs and bullying

Five years after the manufactured controversy around the Safe Schools program, teachers are getting on with the job of making schools inclusive

Seventeen-year-old Sonnie Hannaford isn’t afraid to admit something: they really like going to school. “If you have a free class, you have a choice to go back home if you’d like, but I stick around. I love to stay and just really help out as much as I can.”

At their old school, Sonnie had been bullied so severely that they had closed in on themselves and didn’t want to go back. “Nothing made sense to me. I thought: What’s the right answer? I’m just not fitting into any boxes, I should be fitting in.”

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