AMSTERDAM — Dutch Education Minister Maria van der Hoeven has launched an investigation into why dozens of secondary schools refused to accept copies of gay magazine Expreszo last week. Some schools dumped issues of the magazine in paper recycling bins.
At least 400,000 copies of the gay youth magazine were distributed — partly with ministry funding — to almost every Dutch secondary school at the start of October. The initiative was designed to educate people about the problem of discrimination against gays in the education system.
But a large number of schools refused to accept the magazines, sent them back or threw them into the rubbish or recycling bins out of concern the publication would provoke negative reactions from students and parents.
Christian schools and schools with a large migrant student body took the lead in rejecting the magazine.
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Rev. Colin Mercer | 11/19/2012
