Gay History and Literature: Essays by Rictor Norton “[This website] contains numerous articles that I’ve written over many years, as well as a large selection of primary documents, plus bibliographies and useful links to other websites on LGBTQ history. It also contains some of my writing on non-gay eighteenth-century history and literature.” Rictor Norto, author. […]
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I just did an assembly for International Day Against Homophobia. The behaviour was appalling. Pupils were laughing and joking. How can I change a culture like this?
You can’t. Not through one assembly. How much work on IDAHO did you do before hand with the classes? Not just your class, but every class in the assembly that day. Did you alert other teachers to prepare their classes? And if you’re uncertain about how it’ll play out, an assembly maybe not the kind […]
Lesson: Homophobic/Transphobic Bullying in PE
Lesson Title: Homophobic/Transphobic Bullying in PE Subject: PSHE Overview: This PSHE lesson has uses case studies from PE lessons to exemplify homophobic/transphobic bullying in schools. Key Stage:2/3 Country of origin: UK Misc: Could be adapted for a PE lesson with reworking, provided the objectives are set to the PE National Curriculum and the lesson’s primary […]
Who uses homophobia, transphobia and biphobia and why?
Use of verbal abuse ranges from the ubiquitous use of the word gay to denote anything someone does not like or sees as broken to use of specific slurs such as fag, dyke, fudge puncher, rug muncher, lemon, queer, batty boy Cyber bullying is also prevalent and can take the form of bullying on the […]
I am a Trans Man and my colleagues know this. On a recent school journey, a straight male colleague requested to change rooms so that he wasn’t sharing with me? What should I have done?
This question can appear in many forms. e.g. I covered a swimming lesson last week, but the head of PE who I was assisting told me I couldn’t help the boys change because it wouldn’t be appropriate? Is there a legal position on this? or I am an out TransWoman teacher. I asked a female […]
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