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Kulick, Alex; Wernick, Laura J.; Espinoza, Mario Alberto V.; Newman, Tarkington J.; Dessel, Adrienne B. – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
School-based sports and physical education play an important role in the development of youth (Jones, Edwards, et al., 2017), but participation in athletics is unequal for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth compared to their straight/cisgender peers [Greenspan, S. B., Griffith, C., & Murtagh, E. F. (2017). LGBTQ…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Athletics, Student Participation, Physical Education
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Morris, Max; McCormack, Mark; Anderson, Eric – Gender and Education, 2014
Drawing on in-depth interviews with 15 openly bisexual male youth from sixth forms across the UK, this article documents positive experiences of bisexual male youth in school: participants had positive coming out experiences and did not encounter significant discrimination or harassment because of their sexual identity. Participants attribute this…
Descriptors: Males, Adolescents, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality
McGarry, Robert – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
In order to accommodate the education needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, American schools need to do more than add LGBT information to the curriculum in sex education class. If we believe, as Erikson (1968) suggested--that adolescence is the time when young people try to make sense of who they are--and if we believe that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Developmental Stages, Identification (Psychology), Self Concept