New guidance for how schools in England should treat trans kids is being likened to Section 28. It’s actually worse. Section 28 didn’t forcibly out lesbian, gay or bisexual kids to their parents. It didn’t consider the “wellbeing” of other kids before allowing them to be lesbian, gay or bisexual. It didn’t ban from them from sports. It didn’t ban girls from wearing trousers

#Section28 #Tories #RishiSunak #Transphobia #TransRightsAreHumanRights #UKPol

@AlwaysAutumn when the army came to our school, #Section28 was in force. So teachers weren't allowed to even mention being queer.

Watching the Paul O’Grady doc. Fuck the cunts that supported #Section28 and the cunts now doing the same for Trans peeps. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

That’s as much as I knew #PaulOGrady, but I loved him. I loved that he could segue from vicious #dragQueen to easy listening nanas’ treasure. I loved that he’d dragged #drag into the mainstream in the shadow of #AIDS and despite the pernicious #Section28. I loved that he could build an act around lampooning the Tory #Cilla, then meet her and love her, camp holiday with her, and allegedly turn her into a #Labour voter.

Pink News: After The Act is the daring Section 28 musical with abseiling lesbians and a dragged-up Thatcher https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/28/after-the-act-musical-section-28-legacy-margaret-thatcher-drag/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #Section28 #Politics #Culture #Theatre #musical #schools #Arts #News #arts

#MeetYourFeet​
9 koppige band uit Bristol opgericht door drie vrouwen die een muziekworkshop wilden opstarten en zo langzaam uitgegroeid tot de band die ze nu nog steeds vormen.
https://youtu.be/CwIn5h5sCyI
De start van de live optredens begon met een festival tegen de  #Section28 wetgeving. Ze brengen jazz, Latin en soul geïnspireerde songs.
Ze touren door heel Europa en staan onder andere ook op Glastonbury en andere festivals.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4HRvJdQa9PSX9EAXN658al?si=duhPjMk_Qsespcj1Hsnn3Q

"I'll bumble into this thread not knowing what #Section28 is and tell that silly little queer millennial off, they are beneath me in my own private hierarchy so I will slap them down and it will be the right thing to do"
Yeah......maybe don't do that?

The one thing you shouldn't do when someone is relating some multi decade trauma is be told "shut it, it's just psyops"
Boomers, unless you actively did something about #Section28 then sit down and shit the fuck up when this Millennial Queer is talking about about what YOUR generation did to mine.
And you're doing it again now, to trans kids, you literally can't stop yourselves.
And still you tone police me, is it guilt? Must you always have the word?! 🤷‍♂️

Nick Fletcher, Gender Critical MP (Tory of course) asks Rishi Sunak to condemn schools teaching boys and girls "it's okay to be trans" as Margaret Thatcher would have said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-61842311

Rishi Sunak deflects. Says teaching materials should be politically neutral and age-appropriate.

#PMQs #Section28

Whether or not you support Stonewall with a donation, please sign the petition asking the UK parliament *not* to remove LGBT content from the Relationships Education curriculum used in English schools

This petition is nearly at the threshold of 100,000 signatures, at which a committee would consider it for parliamentary debate

(It was created in response to an anti-LGBT-education petition, which has already passed that threshold 😔)

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631529

#Section28 #LGBTQIA #LGBT #England

I’ve just donated to Stonewall’s campaign to keep Section 28 in the past where it belongs

We can’t allow LGBTQIA+ kids to suffer like that again, with no adult role models and no one to turn to at school

https://donorbox.org/section-28-must-stay-in-the-past

#Section28 #LGBTQIA #StonewallUK

Pink News: How Section 28 lit a fire under Britain’s LGBTQ+ rights movement https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/22/section-28-lgbtq-rights-stonewall/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #Section28 #History

This film about a lesbian PE teacher at the time of Section 28 sounds interesting but painful.

Also, the book mentioned, 'Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 and Britain's Battle for LGBT Education' by Paul Baker, is great.

For anyone not in the UK: PE = physical education. Section 28 was a notorious homophobic law passed in the 80s, repealed in the 00s.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64426890

#homophobia #LGBTQ #education #Section28 #LGBTeducation #ukpolitics #PaulBaker

This film about a lesbian PE teacher at the time of Section 28 sounds interesting but painful.

Also, the book mentioned, 'Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 and Britain's Battle for LGBT Education' by Paul Baker, is great.

PE = physical education for anyone not in the UK. Section 28 was a notorious homophobic law passed in the 80s, repealed in the 00s.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64426890

#homophobia #LGBTQ #education #Section28 #LGBTeducation #ukpolitics #PaulBaker

Pink News: LGBT History Month: The bold, very British resistance to Section 28 https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/05/margaret-thatcher-section-28-lgbt-history-month/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #ianmckellen #Community #Section28 #Politics #History #Law #UK

And those of you who were adults in the #UK during this period, what did you do?
Did you look away? Did you condemn people like Matthew for being "uncivil?"
Are you doing it again now?
#LGBTQI #Section28
https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/24/lgbt-history-week-i-was-charged-for-fighting-homophobic-media-slurs-14134080/

Very important book in UK #LGBTQ+ history is published today.

Twenty-Eight: Stories from the Section 28 generation. Edited by @LaCrecerelle, published by @ReconnectPress.

Please buy it, read it and share.

Order a copy or join the launch tour via link below:

https://www.reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/books/twentyeight/

"At a time when new laws prohibiting the support of young LGBTQI+ people are appearing across the world, we need to hear from the people impacted by #Section28 now more than ever."

#TwentyEight #UKLGBTHM

Pink News: The Boys Are Kissing brilliantly skewers the moral panic over LGBTQ-inclusive education https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/01/the-boys-are-kissing-review/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #Homophobia #Section28 #Features #Culture #Theatre #Arts

#MeetYourFeet
9 koppige band uit Bristol opgericht door drie vrouwen die een muziekworkshop wilden opstarten en zo langzaam uitgegroeid tot de band die ze nu nog steeds vormen. De start van de live optredens begon met een festival tegen de #Section28 wetgeving. Ze brengen jazz, Latin en soul geïnspireerde songs.
Ze touren door heel Europa en staan onder andere ook op Glastonbury en andere festivals.
https://youtu.be/CwIn5h5sCyI
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4HRvJdQa9PSX9EAXN658al?si=t7H4Rs1pQ4iYI4mt3Kx7Mw&utm_source=copy-link

I just know more Brits will sign that #Section28 petition than allies sign the anti-petition.
Your culture hates us Queers Brits, always have and always will. "Whiteness/Patriarchy" doesn't allow for us, it want's us erased and I know Brits will just watch it happen, feeling sad, but doing nothing to stop it