Putting a positive spin on it.

[amanuensis1]

I have decided that, if the film of GoF is uncanonically portraying Durmstrang and Beauxbatons as old-fashioned in their lack of co-educational status, this means that the homoerotica in both schools is rampant--and that Hogwarts is by comparison a hotbed of progressiveness and so there's even less homophobia there than we slashers pretend, in our giddy fandom brains.

So meh.

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[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I don't think you're wrong about Durmstrang but you think there'd have been some note of it. Harry observes just that they're students, in the same way the Beauxbatons representation are students, and only makes note of the genders when there's a Beauxbatons male he comments upon. I imagine he'd have made note if Durmstrang had brought only male students.