Posted on 01/04/2006 1:01:58 PM PST by dukeman
Children as young as seven could be taught gay history in a campaign that urges teachers to introduce pupils to sexual and swear words.
The organisers also want historical figures labelled homosexual - even if there is no evidence they were gay.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month is backed by Scotland Yard and Government departments.
It aims to "celebrate" gays and their lifestyles and end an alleged "silence" about homosexual issues in schools.
Metropolitan Police Chief Sir Ian Blair approved the use of a police headquarters in West London for a reception of LGBT History Month campaigners in November.
The history month also has the support of Education Secretary Ruth Kelly. Her department is understood to be contributing £20,000 towards it.
The Metropolitan Police Authority has given £3,125 to the history month. The Department of Health is also a sponsor.
Schools do not have to adopt the recommendations of LGBT History Month. But support from the Department for Education and the Met provides respectability. This will put pressure on heads to take notice of the event.
"Peddling poison"
Author Lynette Burrows accused organisers of "peddling poison" and distorting history.
Mrs Burrows, from Cambridge, was warned by a Scotland Yard officer last month of being involved in a "homophobic incident" after criticising gay adoption on a BBC programme.
She added: "The police have no business getting involved in this. It is as if the Archbishop of Canterbury were to launch a crimebusting campaign."
Days after she was warned, the Mail revealed that a Christian couple in Lancashire were told by police they were "walking on eggshells" after complaining to their council about its gay rights policies.
Sir Ian has promoted gay rights since becoming the Met's chief. He has appointed 24 diversity advisers on £35,000-a-year salaries and spoken at gay events.
The LGBT History Month is in February. It recommends lessons for primary school pupils that include asking children to repeat sexual and swear words and write them on a blackboard.
Pupils are then asked to discuss the real meaning of the word.
For older pupils, there are lessons in "gender variance".
The lessons claim "people are not always simply male or female" and that one in 100 people are affected by "intersex variations".
The campaign also aims to identify homosexuals from history to provide role models. But organisers say where evidence of homosexuality is missing teachers should still label figures as gay.
Publicity material for the campaign said: "History has conspired to keep our lives hidden.
"Often in correcting this we rely to some degree on circumstantial evidence."
Shakespeare outed
Among figures labelled gay is Shakespeare, of whom it is said: "It seems likely that some of the greatest love poems in the English language were written by one man to another."
The campaign is run by activists linked to the Schools Out organisation of homosexual teachers.
One organiser, Sue Sanders, a lesbian activist who works as a diversity teacher for the Metropolitan Police, said: "Schools have been completely silent on this issue.
"This will encourage people to start looking more closely at the white, male, heterosexual way in which history is presented to us." Another organiser, Paul Patrick, is a former teacher who has contributed to the Trotskyist Socialist Worker newspaper.
A spokesman for the Met said: "Engaging with communities is not optional but a clear business reality upon which the successful policing of London depends.
"Events like this are an opportunity to increase the trust and confidence of the LGBT community in the police."
They're after our children ping.
In the grand scheme of things British, how important is "gay history" compared to, say, the Magna Carta or the battle of Trafalgar?
"introduce pupils to sexual and swear words."
Friggen brits
Now they are teaching the swear words we would get our mouths wash out with soap for.
"Sir Ian has promoted gay rights since becoming the Met's chief. He has appointed 24 diversity advisers on £35,000-a-year salaries and spoken at gay events."
UK University major: Diversity Adviser
-guaranteed employment with the Bureaucracy
Beyond belief!
This must be a preemptive sensatizing with the expectation of some significant closet outings.
PLEEZE NOT WINSTON CHURCHILL!
...reading.
And when the Islamic Radicals increase their raids in England
the LGBT Supporters will be the first to lose their heads
HOMESCHOOL!
> The organisers also want historical figures labelled homosexual - even if there is no evidence they were gay.
OK. How's about these guys:
Jack the Ripper
Oswald Mosley
Al Capone
Adolf Hitler
Joe Stalin
Pol Pot
Mohammad
Hey, why not...
The clothes they wore were FABULOUS!!............
Shakespeare was married to Anne Hathaway wrote most of his poetry to her, had children, etc etc. Now he is outed as Gay. I have never seen evidence for that. I hate this nonsense it is the same crap that got Richard the LionHeart outed because he slept in the same bed with a man (common medieval practice in no way sexual) and because he wrote about his love for another man (another common medieval practice and not an expression of sexual love).
Okay.
Jack the Ripper? Gay.
Burke and Hare? Leather boys of a longstanding relationship.
Sweeney Todd? Big maneating sissy boy.
Lord Haw Haw? Made all his broadcasts from Berlin in drag.
Oscar Wilde? Fathered children with different mothers from Edinburgh to Brighton, and was ghostwritten by a Frenchman.
This is fun. History relaly comes alive when you can rewrite it at will!
It would be cold day in Hell before I would submit my child to this sexual socialization program. We never used sexually explicit swear words or references in my home.
I do not doubt that **Namba** endorses this program.
Oh, didn't you know? Of course, he was a cross-dresser. And everyone knows about Admiral Lord Nelson(buggery on the high seas...) Not to mention Douglas Bader with his kinky missing legs engaging in same-sex S&M. Queen Elizabeth? Lesbian. Palace guards? Flaming... Charles? Need you ask? Every member of SAS...of course...the manly exterior is just a front for the feminine side of every SAS agent...
Kind of reminds me of the Team America takeoff on "Rent" where everyone has AIDS...
add this longer read to this story
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007760
Which does not, if true, make Shakespeare gay. This is a classic literary mystery - who was the "W.H." to whom Shakespeare dedicated the Sonnets in question?
It could, of course, be worse - I read a very plausible argument that "W.H." was one William Hughes, a boy actor who played Shakespeare's female roles, and who was stolen away not by another lover but by another acting company. When NAMBLA gets hold of that one you'll be reading that old Will was a pedophile as well. He isn't, of course, around to defend himself.
Franklin and Adams shared a bed on occasion...like you said, things were a bit different back then.
In Moby Dick (maybe bad example...:)-
"I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be, and that if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with the half of any decent man's blanket."
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