I'm 34. Section 28 was in place from before I joined school, to the start of my last year of 6th form, age 17. "Promotion" meant anything not actively anti-gay. When I was bullied, a teacher took me aside and told me it was my fault for being gay and I should know better.https://twitter.com/TJ_Knight/status/1396712460774739968 …
This sounds similar to what happened in my province in Canada, where GSA clubs (gay straight alliance clubs) were attacked by the government and they wanted to have a rule where teachers could tell parents their kids were in those clubs.
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A deliberate attempt to out students who might have been closeted and also to quash spaces they had. But when I was in school (1995 - 2008) we had nothing like that. So most queer kids were closeted and afraid and had to deal with the worst shit from other students and teachers.
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Like kids being full out homophobic and me being the only one in a class to tell them to shut the hell up, and the teacher told me off for saying anything.
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Yeah, we just had nothing like those clubs at all, I'm pretty sure they would have been illegal under Section 28. But that's awful - putting kids at risk.
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