LGBTQ+ History

Month
Visibility / Pride / Allyship

Winchmore School
 Why do we celebrate LGBTQ+ History?
Alan Turing
▪ Helped to decode German messages that
supported the allies effort in defeating the Marsha P Johnson
Nazi and fascism in Europe.
▪ A prominent LGBTQ+ rights
▪ Was working on a top secret project.
▪ Was found guilty of being homosexual in a American activist.
▪ A famous drag queen
time where being gay in the UK was illegal.
▪ A prominent figure in the
▪ Turing was pardoned by the govt in 2013
Stonewall Uprising in 1969.
 How far has the community come…
1988 2003
Section 28 was 2023
Section 28 was
established into UK abolished The Scottish Parliament
1969
law pass the Gender
Stonewall riots in USA Recognition Act

1972 2013
The first Pride march in
London The first legal same sex
marriage took place in
Brighton
WORLD MAP of where LGBTQ+ people have equal living
standards as Cis Het people
 Three core principles of respect

Visibility PRIDE Allyship

To know that LGBTQ+
Pride in themselves for To live in an equal world.
people are not invisible or
who they were born to be. To be a friend regardless of
purposely washed out of
sexuality and gender
society.
What does it mean to be a true
ally?
Joe Lycett
 We are all Allies of
marginalised communities…

What things can you do to support ALL

people from a protected characteristic?

Many of these points are also helpful in

being allies to:
- People of colour
- Women and girls
- Differently abled people
How would you react if I said it was
illegal to show you the previous
slides?
Until 2003, there was an LGBTphobic law
that prevented schools from positively
talking about LGBTQ+

Why do you think REPRESENTATION is

important?
Why is it important we talk about LGBTQ+
people and events?
FIND YOUR LOCAL GROUP FOR LESBIAN, GAY,
BISEXUAL AND TRANS (LGBTQ+) YOUNG PEOPLE
VIA THE PROUD TRUST WEBSITE:

www.theproudtrust.org