The Role Of Community Youth Work With Lgbt Youth - 3454 Words

Critically discuss the role of Community Youth Work with LGBT youth. I remember as I when I was young boy I fancied a boy in my class, how could this be? What does this even mean? What have I done wrong? All the Emotions? What are these feelings? How can I change this? I was 10 years old I felt alone, scared, I didn’t know who I could talk to. It took me 3 years to fully understand that I was different and that the feelings and emotions that I had for this boy meant only one thing, I was gay. While starting secondary school I began to live a double life I was a quiet kid and I pretended to like girls so save myself from the bullying. However inside I was thinking about boys nonstop and what is felt like. I just want to be able to†¦show more content†¦From doing this essay I hope that I will have gained a better understanding of how we as community youth workers should involve this community in our everyday youth work. Firstly I would like to talk about my own experience on LGBT what I know and what I have learnt not only with in my C ommunity Youth Work course but in my own practices. Secondly I would like to talk about the LGBT meanings and words used. I would to also find out some history of LGBT, when is started what was used before. Thirdly I would like to find out about laws and legalisations regard the LGBT community. In order to this I will use relevant theory, Research and policies that I find about the LGBT community. I will include how the young people who are within the LGBT community are treated by other young people and other communities. I will include a self-reflection on both a personal and professional level. I will also like to include any current practices and strategies for practice development. When I was grown up as a young person and in my youth club there was â€Å"no one† who was gay everyone acted the same and there was nothing different about the boys or the girls. The word â€Å"gay† was used a lot but it was always in the wrong context, it was used in a negative light to hurt or bully someone, â€Å"you are gay† or it was used to describe thing they didn’t like â€Å"this is gay can we do this instead†. As a young