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When I decided to tell people in my class about my *** orientation,
I didn't want to make a fuss,
so I simply asked my teacher if I could tell them something...
She didn't mind.
I knew that people had suspected, so there was no point hiding it anymore,
so I just said: listen you all, I'm a lesbian.
In middle school we didn't talk about non-heterosexuality or at least I don't remember.
There were no conversations about gay people at school,
I mean we spoke about it among ourselves sometimes.
They always ask me what it's like, if I know such people, but the teachers never say anything.
When a boy calls another boy a ***, this other boy feels terribly offended and...
It's like the worst insult ever.
You just hear these things in school corridors.
In cultural knowledge class, when we talk about some artist who was homosexual,
the teacher doesn't try to hide it.
In Polish literature class, regarding some writer's biography,
although not everyone's, there are some...
If some Polish artist was homosexual, this fact is often omitted.
There are some teachers, who have a lot to say about it.
For example my Polish literature teacher
once, during a lesson, she started to insult gays,
she said they weren't people and they shouldn't be allowed to live on this planet.
Someone said homosexuals were drug-addicts who were born at the railway stations.
I was sitting in class and they were throwing objects at me:
Pens, pencils, books, whatever they had at hand.
If I just pass by, go to the toilet
and there is this guy who knows about my orientation
and he instantly says 'hello, ***', or I just pass by
and they shout 'pansy, pansy, pansy'!
The teachers didn't know, didn't notice.
It usually happened during breaks, when the teachers weren't there,
or in class, when the teacher went to the staff room...
Once the school counselor told me that if someone harms me because of my orientation,
as she's the only person amongst the staff who knows,
she said I was to report to her and this person would have to take the consequences,
but I don't want to do it, because this will create yet bigger problems.
I encounter ignorance from the teachers,
they say: 'It's only name-calling'
'Only children worry about such things' and so on and so forth...
That it's not in any way dangerous.
I withdrew from everyone, I hardy spoke to anyone.
When I started middle school, I adopted an attitude of non-existence,
so I would just go there, stay a few hours and return home...
I'm afraid that someone can beat me up because of who I am.
My dream is that...though I know it's not impossible...that
no one insults homosexual and bisexual people, they are just equal to everyone else.
I'd want us to talk about it at school,
to speak about different *** orientations,
to say they exist and they are all equal and none is lesser than the other.
We are living in the 21st Century, we are all human beings with a right to live.
It's unacceptable that someone spits at you,
calls you *** and pansies etc., because we are all equal and it's intolerable that...
...if one person doesn't like another person, he or she can abuse this person. No! No one has such right.
I know it's very hard, but believe me, it'll be alright one day.
There are places where you can get help and feel better about yourself.
Reflect on who you are, who you want to be,
and be yourselves.
Don't worry about other people's opinions, this is your life and you make decisions.
We want to live free from discrimination and violence
That's all.
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