GALE The Global Alliance for LGBT education
December 08, 2009 - The first Debate on Education and Sexual Diversity organized by UNESCO in Chile, brought together important voices of the academic world, of civil society and in participation with the Global Alliance for LTGBI Education.
The “Sexual Education and Diversities: Practices and Challenges” debate was the first debate organized by UNESCO in Chile in order to address the social necessity to counter discrimination of LGBTI people.
The successful encounter was attended by hundreds of interested people and representatives of different organisations. In this way professors, academic college students, social students and activists, and others, could share their opinions and extend knowledge on how develop concrete actions and interventions.
The debate was devided in two main topics: “Formal Education and Sexual Diversity: global and regional perspective”, which reported on regional action and “Sexual Diversity in the School: national experiences”, emphasizing on intervention actions that have been developed in educative centers in Chile.
The Global Alliance for LTGBI Education, GALE, through Toli Hernandez, participated by dscribing the results of the actions developed by GALE in LAC, emphasizing the analysis of factors they facilitate that the location of curricular inferiority to which has been assigned population LTGBI, reproduces. GALE’s participation was very well received and new meetings were planned to consult academic centers around Chile on the subjects of sexual diversity.
It can be said that GALE, with the 11 november meeting, had a succesful set-up with their strategic group LAC to finalize the conceptual process of designing educative interventions in Chile, Peru and Colombia.
UNESCO Chile through its representatives, Mary Guinn Delaney, regional specialist in sex education and HIV, OREALC/UNESCO Santiago and assistant, Victoria Valenzuela, evaluated the succesful activities that will be extended to other regions in Chile. This demonstrates the great commitment of UNESCO in Chile to transform local culture in ending lesbofobia, transfobia, homofobia, biphobia in education worldwide.
(photo: Toli Hernandez)