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Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

April 6, 2020

A year on from the protests in Birmingham, Andrew Moffat is still promoting his No Outsiders programme – with a twist

Andrew Moffat, the gay teacher targeted by Muslim anti-LGBT protesters at Parkfield community school in Birmingham, is wearing his usual rainbow lanyard and says he feels safe again. A year on from the ugly scenes outside the school gate, his hands no longer tremble, there have been no recent death threats, and he doesn’t have to call home when he arrives at work each morning.

He’s just published his second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, a new version of his award-winning lessons on equality, No Outsiders.

Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

April 6, 2020

A year on from the protests in Birmingham, Andrew Moffat is still promoting his No Outsiders programme – with a twist

He’s just published his second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, a new version of his award-winning lessons on equality, No Outsiders.

Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

April 6, 2020

A year on from the protests in Birmingham, Andrew Moffat is still promoting his No Outsiders programme – with a twist

He’s just published his second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, a new version of his award-winning lessons on equality, No Outsiders.

Council asks judge to ban LGBT lessons protesters from near school

October 17, 2019 May 13, 2020

Birmingham school is focus of long campaign to halt LGBT equality messages being taught

A high court judge has been asked to extend an exclusion zone permanently banning activists against LGBT equality lessons from demonstrating outside a Birmingham primary school.

Protesters went head to head with a local authority during the five-day trial to stop protests outside Anderton Park primary school. The school, in the Sparkhill area of the city, has become the focus of a long campaign to halt LGBT equality messages being taught in the classroom.

Birmingham school row: ‘This is made out to be just Muslims v gays. It’s not’

September 20, 2019

As the new term starts, and a court case looms, teachers, parents and demonstrators at Birmingham’s Anderton Park primary tell their side of the story

“People of quality respect equality,” says Aisha, shyly sticking rainbow feathers on to the peace posters she’s just made. The teenager is one of half a dozen Muslim pupils from South and City College Birmingham attending a creative workshop promoting LGBTQ rights in the city.

They are joined by Muslim girls and women, mothers, students and refugees, who have crammed into the Ort gallery to meet and collaborate with members of the local Muslim LGBTQ community. A two-year-old careers between the tables, which are scattered with paint pens, rainbow paper and pots of glue. One mother in a niqab who homeschools her three children tells me she’s here to make sure they understand “how to respect other people who might be different”. Another, a migrant from Iraq, listens carefully to the experience of Mayzar Shirali, who runs a Persian LGBT asylum and refugee support network, and is hoping today is “an icebreaker”.

It isn’t an ‘LGBT programme’. What we have are books … with a representation of all families

At last, a generation of schoolchildren will grow up knowing it’s OK to be LGBT | Paul Twocock

September 4, 2019

Next year, all primary schools must teach pupils that different types of families exist. It is a great step forward for society

Students across the country are heading back to school this week, and while this might not seem momentous, for Stonewall, this school year marks the beginning of the end of a decades-long campaign to get an inclusive education system in England. In September 2020, new regulations for teaching relationships and s ex education (RSE) in English schools come into force. It will be a landmark moment – a whole generation will attend schools that not only accept LGBT people and same-sex relationships, but also celebrate and offer support on the issues that young LGBT people face.

The guidance means that primary schools will teach about different families, which of course includes LGBT families. Contrary to what’s been said by some online and in the media, this is just about showing kids that families can have two mums or two dads. Or to put another way: different families, same love.

‘We aren’t getting back in the closet’ says Angela Eagle in impassioned LGBT speech – video

June 25, 2019

The former Labour minister Angela Eagle gave a passionate LGBT speech during a Commons debate on Tuesday, in which she said ‘we aren’t going to get back in the closet’. Eagle was challenging those protesting against LGBT equality teaching in schools. Eagle, who was the first openly lesbian female MP when she came out in 1997, said such education is not ‘propagandising’ or about ‘trying to turn people gay’, but about respecting their rights to have an ‘equal welcome in school’ and not be bullied

LGBT classes: we aren’t getting back in the closet, MP says

LGBT classes: we aren’t getting back in the closet, MP says

June 24, 2019

Angela Eagle challenges those protesting against LGBT equality teaching during Commons debate

Former Labour minister Angela Eagle has insisted: “We aren’t going to get back in the closet,” as she challenged those protesting against LGBT equality teaching during a Commons debate.

Eagle, who was the first openly gay female MP when she came out in 1997, said such education is not “propagandising” or about “trying to turn people gay”, but about respecting their rights to have an “equal welcome in school” and not be bullied.

Labour colleagues outraged after MP Roger Godsiff backs anti-LGBT protest

June 7, 2019

MP reported to party whip after he told Birmingham school demonstrators ‘you’re right’

The shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said she had reported fellow Labour MP Roger Godsiff to the party’s chief whip over comments about LGBT teaching in schools, as other party colleagues criticised him for saying “you’re right” to protesters against such teaching at a Birmingham primary school.

“This might be the personal views of Mr Roger Godsiff but they do not represent the Labour Party & are discriminatory & irresponsible,” Rayner wrote on Twitter.

‘Parents know best’: Esther McVey faces Tory backlash over LGBT lessons

May 29, 2019

Potential PM says ‘final say’ on children learning about same-sex relationships is for parents

Tory leadership hopeful Esther McVey has come under fire from within her own party after she said it should be up to parents if they want to withdraw their primary-age children from lessons on same-sex relationships.

The remarks by McVey, a former work and pensions secretary, sparked a backlash from equality campaigners and one of her own colleagues, Justine Greening, who was the first openly gay female cabinet minister.

Introduced by the Thatcher government, Section 28 of the Local Government Act stated that a local authority shall not ‘intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality’ or ‘promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship’.

Category: Primary schools

Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

Council asks judge to ban LGBT lessons protesters from near school

Birmingham school row: ‘This is made out to be just Muslims v gays. It’s not’

‘We aren’t getting back in the closet’ says Angela Eagle in impassioned LGBT speech – video

LGBT classes: we aren’t getting back in the closet, MP says

Labour colleagues outraged after MP Roger Godsiff backs anti-LGBT protest

‘Parents know best’: Esther McVey faces Tory backlash over LGBT lessons

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