“All children need to feel safe in schools and to have their personal experience validated. Teachers do not necessarily know which children in their classes have a gay or lesbian parent, aunt, uncle, cousin, grandparent, or other significant person in their lives; which children have friends whose parents are gay, or which children will grow up to be gay themselves. All children need to have the existence of gay people recognized, and to be taught that all people, regardless of sexual orientation, are entitled to respect.

Women’s Educational Media
Preventing Homophobia Project for Elementary School Age Children