Homosexuality in schools

This blog is a touchy one for me, mostly because I have never learned how to approach this topic. All the books we read, all of our professors lecture on how it needs to be addressed either in the classroom or elsewhere, but they never tell you how to do it. I have could easily assign Perks of being a Wallflower and say "Now class, let's talk about sexual orientation. By a show of hands who is gay, who i straight, who is bisexual, and well... the transgenders we can figure out. " I can't do that! To be honest, I agree that it does need to be discussed, but I don't want to be the one to do it. many people believe that students should wear their sexuality like a smokin' pair of stilettos, but I don't. I mean that for everyone, I don't want to see a couple of dudes making out in the hall, just as much as a man and woman. Maybe it is the culture that we live in, by why does everything have to be so sexualized? I agree that everybody has the right to feel safe with who they are, but when people are very open about who they are and what they stand for(sexually, politically, religiously), they have also opened themselves to ridicule, and they need to be okay with that. The only part that teachers should have to do with that, is make sure that EVERYBODY'S viewpoints are welcome on the topic. This is part of anti oppressive education. Not being oppressive toward anyone, not just a select few.