After being working on LGTB legal framework, we met in Málaga to share experiences and learn more about the way to get more respectful schools and societies.
This was our plan
However, pictures speak louder than words, and here is a brief summary of the week in this beautiful video done by the English teacher Ana Concejero
As we can read on the program, we started talking about the current situation concerning LGTB rights or phobia in our schools. The results of the different countries were rather similar, except for Romania, as we were told that being LGTB was a kind of taboo. In this sense, we want to thank this country for taking part in this project as they set an examle for other schools.
We would also like to thank the lawyer Charo Alises who is always willing to help. She had visited us before and on this occasion she was was accompanied by a member of the Erasmus Student Network who translated her lecture about hate crimes
Then we continuedwith a LGTB Tour through the city. Erasmus Students Network and Apoyo Positivo were in charge of it. They introduced the city to our partners, its past and its present, talking about LGTB personalities from Málaga or places. So it contributed to make more visible LGTB community and how they have contributed to create more spaces of freedom in the town.
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| Jorge Suáres Muñoz from the Erasmus Student Network |
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| Apoyo Positivo |
We would ike to mention an interesting anecdote that speaks about how much stereotypes are spread, even if we want to fight against them:
After the tour we were handing out among the people we met some badges with the logo of the project to let them know what we were working on. We saw, then, a young man wearing dreadlocks, so we adress to him, but he refused to takeone of our badges, because he said "he disagrees with homosexuality". On the opposite, a middle aged woman came to meet us and congratulated us for the project, that she considered quite necessary, specially because her daughter was trans. This situation made us think that, although one of the aims of this project is to fight against stereotypes, we ourselves aren't safe from them, as we had just thought that a young boy was going to be more open minded just beacuse of this age and of the dreadlocks.
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| End of the Tour |
Other important moment of this exchange was the presentations about LGTB rights, historical personalities and the results of the diagnosis in each school. It was quite interesting as we could compare the situations of the different countries and enrich our knowledge. Students had been workin on this topic for a couple of months and they did it quite well.
