{"id":403,"date":"2012-05-23T07:33:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T07:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/deputy-crowe-supports-international-day-against-homophobia-a-transphobia-idaho\/"},"modified":"2012-05-23T07:33:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T07:33:41","slug":"deputy-crowe-supports-international-day-against-homophobia-a-transphobia-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/deputy-crowe-supports-international-day-against-homophobia-a-transphobia-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Crowe supports International Day Against Homophobia &#038; Transphobia (IDAHO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Deputy Crowe supports International Day Against Homophobia &amp; Transphobia (IDAHO)<\/strong><\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson, Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe, joined with young gay and lesbians for a cross-party photo call outside Marlborough House to show his and his party\u2019s support for International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO).<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"> <\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Speaking after the event Deputy Crowe said: \u201cIt is fitting that on the day set aside to raise awareness and support for Homophobia and Transphobia, a forum to tackle bullying in schools was meeting for the first time in the Department of Education\u2019s Dublin headquarters.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cIt is important that society acts collectively to end discrimination and violence towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and I welcome the fact that this year\u2019s IDAHO theme is on combating homophobic and transphobic bullying in our schools.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cToo many young people are subjected to bullying and discrimination during their time at school yet their suffering often goes unnoticed and this has led to rising levels of depression, self-harm and suicide. Added to this is the barriers faced by gay and lesbian teachers, who are still discriminated against because of exemptions in the Employment Equality Act that protects the religious ethos of certain schools. This must change and I welcome Minister Quinn\u2019s attendance at today\u2019s photo call and his recent announcement that he plans to address this growing problem in Irish schools.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cI also support the establishment of an anti-bullying working group that is bringing together BeLonG To and the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network in an attempt to develop a roadmap towards the elimination of homophobic bullying.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"> <\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cToday is the inaugural meeting of the Anti-Bullying forum, and one of its priorities will be to address homophobia and transphobia and to protect the rights of young lesbian and gay people so that they can enjoy an inclusive education free from bullying.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"> <\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cSurely it is not too much to ask in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century that we work towards a school system where the sexuality of an individual is respected and diversity is something to be welcomed and celebrated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/idaho crop.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Crowe supports International Day Against Homophobia &amp; Transphobia (IDAHO) Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson, Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe, joined with young gay and lesbians for a cross-party photo call outside Marlborough House to show his and his party\u2019s support for International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO). Speaking after the event Deputy Crowe said: \u201cIt is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}