In middle school, it's hard to be different. It's even harder if a student identifies as LBGTQ+.
This week, a couple of teachers at Central Park School for Children in Durham, North Carolina, decided to enlist the help of some local drag queens to celebrate the unique differences between the school's students -- queer or not.Taylor Schmidt, an eighth-grade teacher at the school, and his colleague, Schara Brooks, saw the impact bullying and other negative behavior was having on students in their school who identify as LBGTQ+.
"Visibility matters, and seeing a queer person of color on stage saying 'this is me' has an impact that no one can really measure." Stormie said she hoped the children would take the event to heart."You hope that the children listen to this," she said,"so that they know we didn't have this when we were growing up. We weren't seeing people like us being celebrated.
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