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Name: | David Mills |
Age: | 25 |
Year of the Fix: | 2014 |
Location: | Norwich |
Campaign: | To encourage people not to use the word ‘gay’ in a negative way |
Too often young people use the word ‘gay’ to mean something negative, either as an insult or to refer to something they don’t like.
But for many of us who are gay, the word forms a really important part of our identity, and to use it as a derogatory term can be hurtful.
With Fixers, I have helped create a film which examines the changing use of the word over time.
I want to reclaim the term and its more positive meaning.
Here is a list of Fixers helping me with this Fix:
Ab Darbo Sparta | Alex Hayward |
Alice Mills | Amy Krzykala |
Amy Snelling | Andrew Jarvis |
Bethane Jenkins | Claudia Collins |
Colin Cushion | Dionne Evans |
Emily Snelling | Jordan Fletcher |
Katie-Louise Davis | Kristian Gowing |
Liam Gathercole | Rachel Pooley |
Ryan Head | Shannon Turnbull |
Norfolk LGBT Project
Michelle Savage, Youth Development Worker at the Norfolk LGBT Project, has supported my Fix. She agreed to be interviewed to appear in the broadcast piece about my project.
October 2014
I’m a member of the Norfolk County Council’s Challenging Homophobia Partnership Group and shared my Fixers film with the group at their last meeting.
Following this presentation, and through the support of Sarah Rose from Stonewall, I received a letter from the Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities.
Click the image below to read the letter!
Alexandra Garrick
Fern Lulham
Hannah Carter
Macauley Collinson
'Kate'
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Timothy Cranfield
Shak & Natasha
Lauren Taylor
Meghann
Jo Quinn
Jack H
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Ben Simms
Olivia G
'Ben'
Liam Thomas
Jade Kingdom
Becky Thorn
Tilly and Bella
Ethan Mcinally
Shannon Rawlings