Study examining lives of gay, lesbian teachers, students and ex-students in schools found:

• 67% experienced verbal harassment
• 30% experienced actual physical violence
• Around 11% of students reported a teacher as the perpetrator of anti-gay or anti-lesbian harassment.
• 62% of perpetrators (in entire sample) were aged between 15-18 years and 23% between 10 -14 years.
• The perpetrators in 71% (entire sample) of incidents involved males only, 22% females only and 4% males and females.
• 69% (students) of respondents did not report the incident because they believed that:

• 43 of the students had felt like leaving school citing homophobia as the major reason.
• Only 9% of trainee teachers and teachers/ex-teachers reported lesbian and gay anti-violence attitudes were taught at their school.
• Males experienced a higher incidence of anti-gay verbal harassment, threats of violence and physical violence than females. (Griffin, J. (1994) – Schoolwatch Report)