VIDEO: Blake Skjellerup and Seb Stewart’s Anti-Bullying Road Trip

Like a sexy modern update of Goodbye Pork Pie, openly gay Olympian Blake Skjellerup and Q-Youth executive director Seb Stewart are hitting the road in a rental car and driving from Kaitaia (at the northern end of New Zealand’s North Island) all the way down to Invercargill (at the southern end of NZ’s South Island). But instead of being pursued by the police as the two anti-heroes were in the 1981 buddy comedy, these gorgeous Kiwi lads are themselves pursuing something: equality and support for diversity education in schools!

As such, they’ll be visiting high schools (what Kiwis call “colleges”, Americans call “high schools”) as they drive south, talking to students about what they can do to end bullying and how to have their friends’ backs if they get bullied, especially for being LGBT.

Seb and Blake have just visited their first school, Kaitaia College, where Seb himself attended, and are on the way next to Kaikohe. I tweeted Blake asking when he’ll be here in Wellington, and they should be here by next Friday. They’ll be video-blogging their journey at Blake’s YouTube channel (blakesjellerup)—subscribe if you want to follow along!

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