Stoke Newington`s School LGBT History Month Presentation 2008

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
Bessie Smith
Nadia Almada
Joan of Arc
Cole Porter
Julius Caesar
John Amaechi
Richard the Lionheart
Ellen Degeneres
Martina Navratilova
Freddy mercury
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
Dale Winton
Paul O’Grady
Beth Ditto
Marlon Brando
Chopin
Plato
James Dean
Justin Fashanu
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Scissor Sisters
2008
Stoke Newington School
zMission Statement: To be a community
which works together to ensure all
students are inspired, and empowered, to
achieve their full potential
zCore 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 Remember
the contributions of LGBT people to
everyday society and world history.
z REMEMBER:
z You don’t have to be lesbian, gay, bisexual
or transgender to acknowledge the
contribution and work of LGBT people
throughout history.
z Ask yourself:
z Do you have to be black to acknowledge
Black History Month (every October)?
z Do you have to be a woman to acknowledge
International Women’s Day (8th March)?
z Do you have to be HIV-positive or have AIDS
to acknowledge World AIDS Day (1st
December)?
1968
z The modern-day LGBT
community and culture
started, like many other
communities, as a result
of the demand for civil
rights.
z 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.
Stonewall riots – fighting for rights
z The Stonewall Riots was five nights of
rebellion in New York's then gay village.
It started when a trans woman named
z Sylvia 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
Labrys
Transgender
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
z Science ‘The gay gene’
z Trans biology - the effect of hormones on
secondary sex characteristics (discussion during
PSHE/ SRE/ biology class)
z Humanities ‘The treatment of LGBT people in
the prison camps’
z Music ‘Ghetto Gospel’ by Elton John
z Art ‘The work of Keith Haring’
z Maths ‘statistics’
z 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 bullying
Permanent display around school
Message 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 nonLGBT students alike
Foyer display
Year 8 students
Take the message into the Community
Useful websites
zhttp://www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/
zhttp://www.schools-out.org.uk/
zhttp://www.stonewall.org.uk/