Jimmy Yan was only 16 when he had his first real experience of homophobia. It happened two years ago at a highly sought-after government school in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, but he remembers it like it was yesterday.
At the time, Yan was in year 11, putting up posters in the school library, publicising a national day of action in support of gay marriage. A teacher approached, read the material, and spat out the words that still make him burn with indignation: ”You don’t know what marriage is, faggot boy.”
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