Anti-gay bigots accuse LGBT people of “indoctrinating” kids when we simply work to educate society on the reality of who we are, and when we try to fight for all kids. Anti-gay bigots simply want to be free to indoctrinate their children into medieval, backwards, hateful views of minorities, like they’ve always done before, because it’s “tradition.”
Yeah, we still have the moral high ground here.
Andy brings us the story of Diversity Role Models, a group which works to educate kids about LGBT people in the UK. Here’s a description of the following video:
“The final lesson of a unit on stereotyping, homophobic bullying and different families. This is a year 6 class in a multi-cultural, typical inner-city London school.”
The video is so very cool.
This almost brought a year to my eye. And I love the part where the teacher goes “so if your best friend told you they’re gay, who would stop being their friend, hand up?” and this kid in the background who’s been playing with his hands in front of his face practically slams them onto the table as if to make a point. A beautiful initiative.
Living in England, I must admit that I sometimes look about me and think “What a s**t-hole”.
Then I see something like this, and realise I could have it a lot worse.
Good old Blighty.