[Sloth]

Pupils will also study modern gay icons such as Freddie Mercury and Sir Ian McKellen

So the gay community has supposedly gone from the likes of Shakespeare and Isaac Newton to dead singers and 'Magneto' from the X-men? Kind of a sharp decline in quality, isn't it?

[wbill]

One would think that there are other 'gay icons' in today's culture that are more worthy of study. Do you think that politics are driving this curriculum?

/more sarcasm