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Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

April 6, 2020

A year on from the protests in Birmingham, Andrew Moffat is still promoting his No Outsiders programme – with a twist

Andrew Moffat, the gay teacher targeted by Muslim anti-LGBT protesters at Parkfield community school in Birmingham, is wearing his usual rainbow lanyard and says he feels safe again. A year on from the ugly scenes outside the school gate, his hands no longer tremble, there have been no recent death threats, and he doesn’t have to call home when he arrives at work each morning.

He’s just published his second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, a new version of his award-winning lessons on equality, No Outsiders.

Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

April 6, 2020

A year on from the protests in Birmingham, Andrew Moffat is still promoting his No Outsiders programme – with a twist

He’s just published his second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, a new version of his award-winning lessons on equality, No Outsiders.

Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

April 6, 2020

A year on from the protests in Birmingham, Andrew Moffat is still promoting his No Outsiders programme – with a twist

He’s just published his second book, No Outsiders: Everyone Different, Everyone Welcome, a new version of his award-winning lessons on equality, No Outsiders.

Council asks judge to ban LGBT lessons protesters from near school

October 17, 2019 May 13, 2020

Birmingham school is focus of long campaign to halt LGBT equality messages being taught

A high court judge has been asked to extend an exclusion zone permanently banning activists against LGBT equality lessons from demonstrating outside a Birmingham primary school.

Protesters went head to head with a local authority during the five-day trial to stop protests outside Anderton Park primary school. The school, in the Sparkhill area of the city, has become the focus of a long campaign to halt LGBT equality messages being taught in the classroom.

Birmingham school row: ‘This is made out to be just Muslims v gays. It’s not’

September 20, 2019

As the new term starts, and a court case looms, teachers, parents and demonstrators at Birmingham’s Anderton Park primary tell their side of the story

“People of quality respect equality,” says Aisha, shyly sticking rainbow feathers on to the peace posters she’s just made. The teenager is one of half a dozen Muslim pupils from South and City College Birmingham attending a creative workshop promoting LGBTQ rights in the city.

They are joined by Muslim girls and women, mothers, students and refugees, who have crammed into the Ort gallery to meet and collaborate with members of the local Muslim LGBTQ community. A two-year-old careers between the tables, which are scattered with paint pens, rainbow paper and pots of glue. One mother in a niqab who homeschools her three children tells me she’s here to make sure they understand “how to respect other people who might be different”. Another, a migrant from Iraq, listens carefully to the experience of Mayzar Shirali, who runs a Persian LGBT asylum and refugee support network, and is hoping today is “an icebreaker”.

It isn’t an ‘LGBT programme’. What we have are books … with a representation of all families

Labour colleagues outraged after MP Roger Godsiff backs anti-LGBT protest

June 7, 2019

MP reported to party whip after he told Birmingham school demonstrators ‘you’re right’

The shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said she had reported fellow Labour MP Roger Godsiff to the party’s chief whip over comments about LGBT teaching in schools, as other party colleagues criticised him for saying “you’re right” to protesters against such teaching at a Birmingham primary school.

“This might be the personal views of Mr Roger Godsiff but they do not represent the Labour Party & are discriminatory & irresponsible,” Rayner wrote on Twitter.

High court bans Birmingham school protests against LGBT lessons

May 30, 2019

Birmingham city council wins injunction to stop demonstrations and social media abuse

Demonstrators protesting against primary school children being taught that people of all genders and sexualities should be treated equally have been served with a high court injunction.

Birmingham city council made the application following several weeks of protests outside Anderton Park primary school in the city.

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Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

Council asks judge to ban LGBT lessons protesters from near school

Birmingham school row: ‘This is made out to be just Muslims v gays. It’s not’

Labour colleagues outraged after MP Roger Godsiff backs anti-LGBT protest

High court bans Birmingham school protests against LGBT lessons

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