Abstract
The present text is part of the reflections of a research that analyzed the ways of participation of youngsters in discussions about gender and sexuality in the school institution. Here we bring a more specific clipping on the issues of sexual diversity and gender, and how the youngsters understand it, experience it and notice it in the relations they establish in their school daily life. We used the strategies of participant observation and informal talks inspired by ethnography. Furthermore, we sought to understand the senses assigned by them in the relation studied with the Discussion Group tool. We found students of different cultures and inspections, who have faced the challenges and questioned another way of occupying the spaces in the school and claiming the debate on issues of gender and sexuality.
Key words:
School; Youngsters; Gender; Sexual diversity