Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
By David Skinner
Since 2004, the LGBT History Month, that attempts to normalise the gay life style in schools, has taken place at Tate Modern, the Metropolitan Police Service's Empress State Building, the Congress House, The Royal Courts of Justice, a school in Hackney and the British Museum.
This year the pre-launch event took place at Twickenham Stadium, and, like last year, it covered a whole day and included an LGBT sports summit. For the next two years, History Month is focusing on sports, one of the last bastions of homophobia.
One of the contributors was Professor Eric Anderson, an American sociologist in the Department of Sport Studies at the University of Winchester. He is known for his research on sport, masculinities, sexualities and homophobia. His work shows an increasingly positive relationship between gay male athletes and sport, as well as a growing movement of young heterosexual men’s masculinity becoming softer and more inclusive.
He echoes the thoughts of Peter Tatchell, who also wants straight men to enjoy the delights of gay sexuality and thereby connect with the more sensitive and feminine sides of their natures.
These same sentiments have been articulate by David Mixner, one of the most powerful gay men in America who once said
'But I think of the things that we have explored and maybe one of the gifts we bring society is that because we have not allowed to be officially sanctioned our relationships – in a number of ways – then we have had to explore alternatives. And I think that in many ways that we are seeing that many in the heterosexual community are copying some of those alternative ways that people can be together, love each other in a healthy wonderful positive sense and the same time meet the needs of a very complex society in which we live in'.
Please listen to what Dr Eric Anderson is saying and think of the implications for millions of children in our schools.
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