Presentation researched and tested by:

Elly Barnes

Head of Year and Music teacher at

Stoke Newington Media Arts College

(NUT)

Geoff Huckle

Development Worker Staying Out Staying

Healthy Initiative (SOSH)

What do they have in common?

Elizabeth 1 Amelia Earhart Dana International Alexander the Great

Elton John George Michael Will young Paul O’Grady

Bessie Smith Nadia Almada Martina Navratilova Marlon Brando

Joan of Arc Cole Porter Freddy mercury Chopin James Dean

Julius Caesar John Amaechi Oscar Wilde Plato Justin Fashanu

Richard the Lionheart William Shakespeare Jean-Paul Gaultier

Ellen Degeneres Dale Winton Beth Ditto Scissor Sisters

2008

Stoke Newington School

Mission Statement: To be a community which works together to ensure allstudents are inspired, and empowered, to achieve their full potential

Core Aim: To promote and celebrate diversity

The School Code

Respect each other’s race, culture, gender and sexual orientation.

This includes actual or perceived sexual orientation, conformity or otherwise to perceived gender stereotypes or

behaviour, friendship groups and means of expression.

Our school welcomes everyone from all walks of life. Everyone must welcome and celebrate all others in our school.

Why celebrate or recognise LGBT History Month?

LGBT History Month is an opportunity for all of us to learn more about the histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender

people It also gives us all a chance to:

Acknowledge, Respect and Rememberthe contributions of LGBT people to everyday society and world history.

REMEMBER:You don’t have to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to acknowledge the contribution and work of LGBT people throughout history.Ask yourself:Do you have to be black to acknowledge Black History Month (every October)?Do you have to be a woman to acknowledge International Women’s Day (8th March)?Do you have to be HIV-positive or have AIDSto acknowledge World AIDS Day (1st December)?

The modern-day LGBT community and culture started, like many other communities, as a result of the demand for civil rights.The Stonewall Inn was the scene of five nights of rebellion against the New York Police in protest at their harassment of the lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people who went there, and LGBT people in general.

1968

Stonewall riots – fighting for rights

The Stonewall Riots was five nights of rebellion in New York's then gay village. It started when a trans woman namedSylvia Rivera threw a bottle at a police officer in protest at the police harassment of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans people who went to socialise at the Stonewall Inn.

This led to a higher visibility of LGBT people and ignited the demands for equal rights and a global, overall LGBT

culture and community was founded.

Like many cultures and communities, the LGBT community is identified by: various ways of dressing, language, role models,

music, films, literature and symbols.

Polari/Polaie:“bona to

vada your dolly old

eke”English:

“nice to see your lovely

face”

LGBT’s on TV

After World War 2, the PINK TRIANGLE and the BLACK TRIANGLE were adopted by the LGBT

community as a symbol of remembrance and of LGBT identity.

Other symbols used by the whole LGBT

community or parts of it, include:Lambda TransgenderLabrys

In 1978, Gilbert Baker designed the most commonly recognised LGBT symbol, the RAINBOW FLAG.

It consists of six stripes and each colour represents a different quality.

LIFE (red)

HEALING (orange)

SUN (yellow)

NATURE (green)

ART (blue)

HARMONY (violet)

No one should feel that they are alone or cannot talk to an adult in school.

Remember when at your school:

Subject specific projects for LGBT month

Science ‘The gay gene’Trans biology - the effect of hormones on

secondary sex characteristics (discussion during PSHE/ SRE/ biology class)

Humanities ‘The treatment of LGBT people in the prison camps’

Music ‘Ghetto Gospel’ by Elton JohnArt ‘The work of Keith Haring’

Maths ‘statistics’D&T ‘Rainbow Flag

‘Bringing the whole school together’ Final assembly presentations

George Michael song

‘An easier Affair’

LGBT History Month achievements

Students empowered to report bullyingPermanent display around schoolMessage goes home to parents

Safe zone for students to come ‘out’‘Celebrate’ not tolerate diversity in schools

Creating a safe zone for everyone to be who they want and need to be, regardless

Changes the lives of LGBT and non-

LGBT students alike

Foyer display

Year 8 students

Take the message into the Community

Useful websites

http://www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/

http://www.schools-out.org.uk/

http://www.stonewall.org.uk/