Student culture and sexual diversity discrimination and recognition of LGBT youth in high school
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Abstract
This article analyzes the student culture that predominates in the schools of secondary with respect to homosexual, lesbian and transgender young people in Bogota (Colombia), from the results of the study about homophobia and coexistence in the school, realized between 2006 and 2007.
It analyzes the predominance and reproduction of the sex/sort/heterosexism system, like a naturalized cultural paradigm that circulates in the school through the hidden curriculum, and it is materialized in the set of beliefs, emotions and behaviors that determine the exclusion and the discrimination.
In addition, it describes to the impact of homophobia and lesbianphobia between the students who are victims of discrimination by their sexual direction and gender identity and enunciates some general lineaments to approach this situation from the processes of sexual education.