• 80% report verbal abuse
• 90% report they sometimes or frequently heard homophobic remarks
• 44% report threats of attack
• 33% report being threatened with a weapon compared to 7% of heterosexual students
• 19% report suffering physical attacks so severe that professional medical services were required  In an Australian study the number of physically attacked gay youth was 13% with 70% of the attacks taking place in the school
• 46% reported sexual harassment
• 42% reported being physically harassed or assaulted
• the average student hears anti-gay epithets 25 times a day
• teachers who hear these slurs fail to respond 97% of the time

University of South Carolina (study by James Sears):

• 66% of school cousellors had negative attitudes about gay youth
• 52% of prospective teachers reported they would feel uncomfortable working with an openly gay person
• 53% of gay youth reported hearing homophobic comments made by school staff