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Published on: 4/27/2007
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Robert Marshall, Youth Coordinator for Auckland LGBT youth support network Rainbow Youth contacted MyStory's creators The Gibson Group directly when he learned of the televised comment.
"Nine and ten-year-old kids hear, 'that's so gay' as they are growing up in our schools.It is discriminatory and entirely inappropriate," he said.
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Rainbow Youth's Robert Marshall has a message for gay youth who experience anti-gay slurs at school."Dealing with the internal homophobia helps with the external stuff.If you feel good about yourself, it makes it harder for others to make you feel bad.Humour can really help sometimes."
To the TV media, Marshall says, "try not to stereotype queer youth and try and create some positive role models for a change.