Safe Zone training educates about LGBTQ matters

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http://www.bsudailynews.com/features/safe-zone-training-educates-about-lgbtq-matters-1.2650632

Ever since elementary school, Jaime Whitaker has been the object of bullying.

"I have experienced bullying as long as I can remember," the sophomore design technology major said. "I was an overweight kid in elementary school. When I was starting to get the gay attributes in middle school and throughout high school, I was bullied a lot for that."

Even once he got to college it didn't completely stop. Bullying takes place on campus, and Whitaker said he experienced it himself.

"I was walking down McKinley , and a car was driving by and called me ‘faggot,'" he said.

In resolution to the bullying issue, Safe Zone is a training program on campus to educate students and faculty, gay or straight, on problems with which the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community deals. The training meets in the pine-shelf room in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center today and again on Nov. 16 from 5 to 9 p.m.

Taylor Pallatin, senior nursing major, is the president of Spectrum, the LGBTQ club on campus.

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