{"id":19484,"date":"2013-11-19T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=19484"},"modified":"2013-11-19T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T13:30:31","slug":"new-campaign-tackles-homophobic-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2013\/11\/19\/new-campaign-tackles-homophobic-bullying\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity challenges homophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stonewall Cymru<\/a>\u00a0has teamed up with Mumsnet<\/a> and Will Young for Anti-Bullying week, to tackle the casual use of homophobic language.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The campaign Gay, let\u2019s get over it,<\/a> aims to challenge the use of the word “gay” as a derogatory slang term in schools and the workplace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Stonewall has reported<\/a> that 99% of lesbian, gay and bisexual people regularly hear “gay” used in a negative way and 55% have directly experienced homophobic bullying in schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cGay is currently used as one of the worst possible forms of insult among children in UK schools.\u201d said Stonewall media manager, Richard Lane, \u201dWe cannot be complacent in tackling an issue that blights the lives of so many gay, lesbian and bisexual people who are bullied because of the way they were b<\/p>\n

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Anti-Bullying week<\/a> will end on 22 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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