The Long Beach City Council sided with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in a meeting last Tuesday concerning young people and their school life.
In response to the shooting death of a transgender student by his fellow classmate in Oxnard last month, Councilwoman Tonia Reyes Uranga proposed a recommendation in which the City Council would work with Long Beach Unified School District, the Teachers Association of Long Beach and gay support organization The Center Long Beach to better the student relations and education involving sexual orientation and identity. The main focus of this outreach would be to promote respect and understanding of diversity among students.
Several Long Beach students were in attendance to speak for the cause. Thalia Duran, a graduate student at Cal State Long Beach, spoke about the need for diversity education in city schools.
"Hate," Duran said, "I don't believe as a social worker, is an innate quality. It is a learned quality and therefore implies that it can be unlearned."
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