After a year of bullying at her last school, Bella left. “I had a lot of bullying issues,” she tells me, staring at her sneakers.

"Nobody used to say anything to my face. They'd write notes and leave them in my tray, which was maybe even worse. I was always left wondering who it was. You know, was it one of my friends?" I asked her what the notes used to say and she references "the F-word". Not "fuck", she's talking about "faggot".

Bella's new school has its own LGBT support group, that meets weekly. Her school also hosted a Wear It Purple day, which is how she found out about the organisation. As the night goes on, I find that almost all of the young people marching today have found the group through school programs.