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Not Everyone is Gay at Christian ‘All-Girls’ Schools
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Honi Soit
I received responses from people still in Christian high schools to those who attended in the early 2000s.
Have you ever pondered the origins of rhetoric like “everyone is gay at Christian all-girls’ schools’?
Aside from this jargon’s entrenchment in the vile, ‘everyone is gay at Christian all-girls’ schools’ is constantly used to excuse the need for support systems for young queer people in these environments, which equates homophobia as a rite of passage.
Rhetoric around queerness in ‘all-girls’ Christian schools is not only damaging for its reductionist outlook, it also further perpetuates an androcentric view of queerness.
The worst part is, it’s not even true: not everyone is gay at Christian ‘all-girls’ schools… though a girl can dream.