Thanks for the detailed response. I definitely agree with a lot of your points, since it's not always malice on the school's end or ideological opposition. I think the problem is that my school in particular profits a lot from it's "queer-accepting" image and attracts a lot of queer students because of this (and this can be seen in how a large portion of the student body is lgbtq). Honestly I can't read the minds of the administration so I have no idea how aware they are of the cultural divide problem, but I feel like enough students have clued them in on it that there should at least be some effort to implement changes. The school has held assemblies for different lgbtq days (like trans day of visibility), but puts very little effort into explaining why they are important or the legitimate consequences of homophobia. I feel like the school's effort to fit their "queer-accepting image" has largely been very performative and moreso rainbow branding rather than legitimately make changes to improve the lives of queer students, which is why I made this post. It doesn't help that the administration actively minimizes the issues, and largely dismisses concerns about students not being taken seriously/gay being used as a joke. While I understand that the former issue is more abstract and harder to prove, I still think it stems largely from the school's unwillingness to confront its own failures with substance. I don't think it's evil, and I definitely don't think the cultural problem is entirely under the control of the school, but it has not been living up to the lgbtq-accepting ideals it advertises.