LGBT+ History Month Resources

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The PSHE Association is the national body for Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education, leading the effort to ensure that every pupil receives high-quality provision.

Good PSHE education begins with a well-planned programme. Our curriculum guidance section brings together the advice you need to develop your PSHE curriculum, and our invaluable resource library offers high-quality resources to help you put your plans into practice – from planning frameworks to detailed lesson plans. The resources here are either developed by the Association or quality assured by us against best practice criteria.

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There are some paid for resources available on the PSHE Association website by EACH (Educational Action Challenging Homophobia) and the Christopher Winter Project.

LGBT+ Objects showcases material from across UK museums which reveals the diversity of ideas about gender and sexuality throughout world history, together with free lesson ideas for using each object as the basis of LGBT+ focused discussions with young people (in PSHE, RSE, other school subjects or out-of-school youth activities).

The resources were developed by the University of Exeter’s Sex & History project, Brook and RSE Hub, together with museum partners and young people.

Support was provided by Schools OUT UK  and Wellcome.

To access the free resources go to:

LGBT+ Objects

ACT is the subject assocation for Citizenship representing teachers and others involved in Citizenship education.

Our mission is to support the teaching of high quality Citizenship and to promote wider public understanding of the subject. We also promote research into the participation of young people in society.

Our work is led by our Council, a group of teachers and practitioners who are members of ACT from across the country and overseen by our Board of Trustees. We encourage all our members to help steer our work and have a leading role in Citizenship education nationally.

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Terrence Higgins Trust’s ‘SRE: Shh… No Talking’ report, published in July 2016, highlighted that sex and relationships education (SRE) is inadequate or absent in many schools. The report was published following a survey of over 900 young people aged 16-24 and it revealed that:

• 99 per cent of young people surveyed thought SRE should be mandatory in all schools
• 97 per cent thought it should be LGBT inclusive
• one in seven respondents had not received any SRE at all
• over half (61 per cent) received SRE just once a year or less
• half of young people rated the SRE they received in school as either ‘poor’ or ‘terrible’
• just 2 per cent rated it as ‘excellent’ and only 10 per cent rated it as ‘good’
• 95 per cent were not taught about LGBT relationships

Meanwhile, several key topics were conspicuously absent from respondents’ experiences of SRE:

• 75 per cent of young people were not taught about consent
• 95 per cent had not learned about LGBT sex and relationships
• 89 per cent were not taught about sex and pleasure
• 97 per cent missed out on any discussion around gender identity
• three out of five respondents either didn’t remember receiving information on HIV in school (32 per cent) or didn’t receive information on HIV in school (27 per cent)

More information here

The Shrewsbury Hub: History Boards

History gets to you, especially once you realise how little we know ourselves, never mind how much the general public know about LGBT lives:

• How people met each other
• Where they could meet and feel safe, non-judged, accepted for who they are
• The impact of being criminalised
• The impact of being abused, discriminated against, ignored, demonised
• ‘Coming out’ and sometimes lack of choice in ‘being out’
• The ‘codes’ that helped people to ‘find’ each other and ‘share’ experiences without overtly announcing their sexuality

In a large rural county, finding and meeting people is harder and undoubtedly a lot of people gravitate towards larger cities and towns where there is more likelihood of a gay club, bar, group meeting and even an LGBT Community centre!! Also we know that some have come to the ‘metropolis’ of Shrewsbury from some very small rural communities

Our History Boards tell an ever-expanding story of LGBT lives in Shrewsbury – and the surrounding Shropshire County. They are A0 in size and we make them available for loan to schools, colleges, exhibitions and events. salopianrainbows@gmail.com

You can download here a pdf version of our boards for free.

There is also an addendum from Oswestry Museum here

The LGBT Issue

The Sex Educational Supplement Volume 1 Issue 3

Young people called for LGBT inclusive SRE en masse in a recent survey (Sex Education Forum, 2013), and this reflects a new solidarity amongst the next generation; they expect equalities legislation to be put into practice in school life and in the curriculum they are taught. The youngest age band (aged 16-24) surveyed in the latest National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles were twice as likely as the older age-band (aged 65-74) to be accepting of male and female same-sex partnerships, with around half of the younger group believing that same-sex partnerships are ‘not at all wrong’ (Mercer, 2013). Legislation and attitudes have changed.

This magazine aims to show how straightforward it can be to make SRE inclusive. I hope you will be inspired to be creative and confident in developing your SRE to celebrate diversity and let love and respect shine through.

Download the magazine here

Rainbow Teaching is a volunteer run project aimed at supporting teachers in LGBTQIA+ inclusive teaching. LGBTQIA+ inclusion extends far beyond PSHE and into the language that we as teachers use, the policies we adopt, the activities we include in our lessons and tutor times, as well as our interactions with students, parents and staff. The project is headed by Allie – a bisexual, genderqueer English, Media and PSHE teacher – and our volunteers are LGBTQIA+ members of the teaching and academic communities who are all passionate about equality and inclusion.

Introduction to the Rainbow Teaching resources from Janet Palmer who was, until recently, one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of schools and the National Lead for Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education:

Rainbow Teaching have produced a range of high quality, free resources and guidance that support pupils’ learning about LGBT+ issues. These include how to teach sex and relationships education (SRE) using language that is inclusive of LGBT+ young people; how to challenge bigotry and prevent incidents of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying; how to safeguard pupils through their understanding of their rights and responsibilities; and how to develop their spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development through good equalities education.

Under Ofsted’s Common Inspection Framework schools are expected to actively promote equality and diversity and tackle all forms of bullying and discrimination. The Rainbow Teaching resources enable teachers to do this by providing, among other things: basic definitions of LGBTQIA; tips about how to respond effectively to incidents of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic language and behaviours; and ideas for assemblies and lessons on diverse families, gender identity and recognising healthy and unhealthy relationships.

Click the image above to visit their site.

LGBT on Instagram

A superb instagram page – literally hundreds of LGBT photographs, including many rare pictures of activist heroes

Available here: @lgbt_history

The Proud Trust has teamed up with The People’s History Museum to bring you this year’s free LGBT History Month Pack for February 2017 on the theme of “Citizenship, PSHE and Law”.

This easy to use, three lesson pack, will guide you and your students through an exploration of LGBT history and changes to law in the UK, as well as having a look at the situation for LGBT people across Europe. The pack will also get young people thinking about what changes still need to happen and about the types of things they can do to raise awareness of this.

Click on their logo below to visit their page and download the resource pack and PowerPoint

Prejudice and Pride

The National Trust Magazine have produced an article supporting their Prejudice and Pride exhibitions across some of their sites.

“Many of our places were home to, and shaped by, people who challenged conventional ideas of gender and sexuality. 50 years after the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, we’re exploring our LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer) heritage with a programme called Prejudice and Pride. We’ll be holding events, special exhibitions and much more.”

To read more about the Prejudice and Pride exhibitions, visit the National Trust’s Website here

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To mark LGBT History Month, RCNi have brought together a selection of our articles for you to read for free, simply by registering to their website.

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