Giving Voice, Making Change: How PFLAG Resources Can Be Useful Classroom Tools

I want to suggest a new way of a\pproaching the topic of sexuality within the secondary and/or tertiary classroom and offer an example of a teaching resource that might help facilitate this shift. I stumbled upon this resource one sunny February evening in 2005 when I was invited by friends to attend the Sydney Mardi Gras, Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. As the tickets had been purchased ahead of time, I was not entirely certain what was on the programme for the night. To my pleasant surprise a local documentary, Bouncing Castle: Keeping Families Together (2005), was being screened. The one-hour feature not only captured my attention, it provided me with a renewed sense of how I would approach the topic of sexuality in my classroom that semester. Directed by Chris Castro and produced by Giovanni CampoloArcidiaco and Vanessa Gonzalez, Bouncing Castle is an initiative of the Western Sydney chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Since its debut screening in Sydney, it has been included in gay and lesbian film festivals in Bendigo (AUS), Melbourne