SCOTLAND’S Children’s Commissioner has called for an end to homophobia in Scottish schools, insisting it is “time to tackle the discrimination of our LGBTI+ communities” in education.
Yale University – gay faculty less comfortable than closeted peers
According to a new Yale-led study, openly gay professors are less comfortable in their work environments across the country than their closeted peers.
LGBT HM 2014 Prelaunch
LGBTHM 2014 is dedicated to ‘Music’. The day will be a community educational celebration of all things music and LGBT. The event takes place at Birmingham University on November 28th
Section 28 row: Schools tear up controversial homophobic policies
Responses follow the disclosure that 40 schools had published policy statements echoing language of notorious legislation
Public school appoints first gay head boy
From today’s Sunday Times: A 17-YEAR-OLD is to become the first openly gay head boy of a top British public school.
Will Emery, the son of a banker, was “overwhelmingly” voted in by more than 1,000 pupils and staff at Brighton College, where boarding fees start from £27,000 a year.
Fired lesbian high school physical education teacher Carla Hale says: ‘This is not the end’
After 19 years, she was axed by Catholic school because her partner’s name appeared in her mother’s obituary (USA)
Schools Out AGM – Manchester University February 2013
In case you missed it, Schools Out’s AGM was held in the Turing Building at Manchester University as part of a day-long conference about LGBT issues.
London Teacher Suspended For Homophobic Language
classroom ban on a Christian school teacher in south-east London who condemned the “homosexual lifestyle” in front of pupils has been upheld by the High Court. Robert Haye told a Year 11 class of students aged 15-16 at Deptford Green School in Lewisham that gay people’s lives were “disgusting” and a sin. On another occasion, he told students aged 13-14 “anyone who worships on Sunday is basically worshipping the devil”. The 43-year-old and his family belong to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, …
How to teach … LGBT history month
For LGBT history month, the Guardian Teacher Network has resources to help you look at the problems – and achievements – of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people
LGBT Youth NW Best Practice Guide
Practitioners from all over the UK who deliver LGBT Awareness and Education in schools got together in Lancaster Library last November to share their experience and knowledge.