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Press Release: Charity Calls For Schools To Teach Transgender EqualityThe Department for Education must make the teaching of equality and diversity a compulsory part of the personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) syllabus, says Suran Dickson, chief executive of education charity Diversity Role Models.
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Why I support Diversity Role Models
By Sarah Westwood
I was lucky enough to be at the launch of Diversity Role Models last week. I was standing, in fabulous surroundings, looking around the room at all the beautiful gay people, and I thought: "Where were all these people when I was younger?"
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The Best Days of Your Life?
We've often written from an adult perspective about why Diversity Role Models is needed and how it can encourage confidence in LGBT students and empathy in their peers. We asked Jess, a 16 year old college student from Manchester, about her experiences of school and why she wishes she'd had role models to help her through some difficult years.
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UK lesbian artists band together to combat homophobic bullying
On the weekend of the 21st October the UK's leading lesbian artists will band together at Dean Street Studios in Soho London to record a song which will help raise awareness and money for charities which work to combat homophobic bullying in young people.
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Babes on the Box
A woman with a disproportionately small waist for her G cup chest runs down the beach in a red swimsuit cut so high her hips appear to end in her armpits.
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School is a drag16 year old Jamie wanted to attend his school prom in a dress. Openly gay and quite flamboyant, not a day had passed that he'd not been called a freak or faced other verbal bullying in his small northern mining town.
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A Question of SportA couple of weeks ago I attended the Prime Minister's reception for the LGBT sports community at Downing Street.
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What do the Kids Say?'Please come to my school because I am the only gay one and everybody hates me. I am just the same as them'
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Sideways Hair and HandbagsAfter speaking at a staff meeting on the importance of including LGBT topics in primary schools, I was invited to spend a day in one discussing different families. It was a timely reminder, in amongst all the charity red tape & future fundraising, as to how worthwhile all this is.
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We Are FamilyNot so long ago, 'family friendly' was a coded allusion to 'gays not welcome'. Family was what straight people had and LGBT folk were left to the outer circles of these.
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