Who are Schools OUT and why did they decide to do it?
Schools OUT is the thirty two year old organisation – originally called the Gay Teachers’ Group – that works for LGBT equality in education. It is an entirely voluntary organisation that survives on affiliation, donation and subscription. For further information, see www.schools-out.org.uk. By working in education in its widest sense and with school curricula in particular, they recognised that LGBT lives were hidden, disguised or ignored. They felt that this could only encourage the ignorance and prejudice that all their work seeks to challenge and therefore the creation of the LGBT History Month UK was an extension of that work.
