Like so many gay teenagers, Sebastian remembers hating his time as a student on Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula.

“For years, I was persecuted and abused, verbally and physically,” he recalls. “The teachers knowingly ignored and turned a blind eye to the bullying, and I got blamed for drawing attention to myself. It got to the point where I dropped out of school for six months.”

Mark went to an all boys’ private school, and didn’t come out until he was 21.

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