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Access to public space and the public forum is necessary for diverse groups to create justice in a pluralistic society (Jacobs, 1961; Young, 1990). This participatory action research project examined the language and behaviors that circulate in schools about sexuality and gender, and visualized the ways those discourses manifested in the spaces of schools and impacted bodies. To this end, I used a mapping exercise to allow the youth researchers to show how discourses of sexuality and gender appeared in their school setting and the ways they resisted the limitations of dominant gender and sexuality identities. Three major themes emerged upon describing and discussing the maps: school spaces are sexualized as well as gendered, spaces where sexuality and gender can be spoken allow students to examine their desires and pleasures, and adults can create a public forum for justice about sexuality and gender identity. Spatial studies such as this one give researchers access to new understandings of LGBTQ+ youth use of embodied and discursive resources to create spaces in schools in which to explore their identities and pleasures.  \nKeywords: LGBTQ+ youth; schools; public space; sexuality; gender  \nIntroduction  \nThis article explores the meanings of public spaces and public forums, in particular in the ways scholars have theorized that gender, sexuality, and safety are created or regulated in public spacesand public discourses. This frames the discussion of the spatial distribution and significance of sexuality and gender in maps that student researchers created of sexuality, gender, and gender transgressing behavior and discourses in their school buildings. Access to public space and the public forum is necessary for diverse groups to attain justice in a pluralistic society (Jacobs, 1961; Young, 1990) . Hegemonic discourses have remained uncontested by denying certain bodies and voices access to public spaces (Katz, 2006; Spain, 1992) . It is therefore important to examine not only the language and behaviors that circulate in schools about sexuality and gender, but also to visualize the ways the discourses manifest in the spaces of schools and impact the movement of bodies.  \nIn a youth participatory action research (YPAR) group (Cammarota & Fine, 2008) with lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth, a spatial and conceptual mapping exercise (Low, 2000; Tuck  \net al., 2009) allowed the youth researchers to show one another, and me, the ways the discourses we had talked about appeared in their school setting. Youth researchers were asked to draw and describe their “Gay School,” or spaces in the school where sexuality and gender could be expressed in ways that did not conform to heterosexual or binary gender expectations. These maps took the form of outlines of rooms and floors, or sometimes isolated closets and bathrooms, with notations about bodies that inhabit and desires that could be spoken in those locations. Research questions that guided this inquiry were: a) What are the discourses of sexuality and gender that circulate in schools? and b) Do youth redeploy discourses in order to create spaces of resistance? Three major themes emerged upon describing the maps for one another and discussing as a group what we saw represented: school spaces are sexualized as well as gendered, spaces where sexuality and gender can be spoken allow students to examine their desires and pleasures, and adults can create a public forum for justice about sexuality and gender identity. In these maps the youth researchers and I began to see, in embodied ways, students’ resistance to negative hegemonic discourses in schools, their strategic use of supports and role models, and the creative ways young people enact thei","cbCailMsPima8nEC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailMsPima8nEC","pdf",865622,23,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Youth participatory action research and mapping\n# Discourses, censorship, and impacts in school public spaces","[{\"question\":\"What does the article claim about schools and public space?\",\"answer\":\"Schools are framed as public spaces and public forums for the students they serve. Access to these spaces is treated as necessary for achieving justice in a pluralistic society.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the study conducted to examine sexuality and gender in schools?\",\"answer\":\"The research used youth participatory action research with lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth. 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