A Comparison of Urban and Rural Middle and High School Teachers’ Attitudes and Observations About LGBT Students

“[W]e wanted to look at how. . . attitudes about LGBT people differ between teachers at rural middle and high schools compared to those teaching at an urban middle and high school setting. We also wanted to look at how. . . the teacher’s observances of anti-LGBT behaviors among the students and faculty bodies differ between rural and urban settings. And finally, we also wanted to look at [whether] these attitudinal differences correlate with the differences in rates of behaviors, anti-LGBT behaviors that they were observing.”