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 …
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The bullying didn't last long, thankfully, because I picked out the ringleader and threw him down a flight of stairs. But I was lucky in that I was able to take matters into my own hands, a lot of kids weren't. And none of us should have had to.
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"Promotion" was a deliberately loaded word - they wanted to make it sound as though The Gays were going around converting children. Absolute nonsense. People are doing the same about trans kids now. No-one "turns" kids LGBT. They just give them language for who they are.
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Replying to @OiShinyThings
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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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OiShinyThings
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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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OiShinyThings
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, in the looking-at-newspapers class we had to "debate" gay marriage. I ended up thrown out of the class on a regular basis for not putting up with homophobia.
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Replying to @OiShinyThings
What the fuck. Yeah, I wouldn’t have put up that shit.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OiShinyThings
While we didn't have a law against it (to my knowledge), it was only until the late 00s that it was even remotely acceptable to be a cis queer white teen in school, let alone anyone else. And god forbid if a teacher was gay...they would 100% be "let go" for some other reason.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @OiShinyThings
I can't remember it at all, but we may well have debated about gay marriage in school too. It was legalised in Canada when I was 15 and just entering high school, so it was talked about a lot.
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But knowing gay friends who are teachers and still have to be in the closet so they didn't get fired because of conservative homophobic parents...I mean, that was the case a few years ago, idk about now.
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