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It's LGBT History Month Celebrate! it’s LGBT History Month Celebrate! LGBT issues and policy 25 Monitoring 27 Gender identity and awareness 30 Transgender statistics 31 Language and terminology 3 Welcome 33 Hate crime 4 LGBT facts and figures 6 What is LGBT History Month? Inside 9 Messages of solidarity LGBT equality at UCU 11 LGBT members’ standing committee A global 14 LGBT equality conference perspective report 35 International working 18 Snapshot of LGBT equality 40 World Aids Day 20 Pride and prejudice in education 41 HIV and work 21 Q&A – Rob Goodfellow 43 The EU and LGBT talks about LGBT equality equality 24 In remembrance of 46 Spotlight on migrants Gerard Kelly 47 Holocaust Memorial Day F UCU Celebrates lGbt History MontH F017 Get involved Welcome 48 Get involved, get active am a proud gay union activist 50 Training and have been so for many 51 LGBT calendar – iyears as a worker. For 25 years i key dates was a teacher and nUt member where i was a branch president and 53 LGBT equality resources a member of their lGbt working 55 We want to hear from you party. in 2008, i moved to work in prison education and joined UCU. since the 1980s, i have been involved in the work of schools oUt UK and lGbt history month, and for the last couple of years i have been honoured to hold the post of chair of trustees. this year we mark 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality. Many things have changed in the intervening years and many laws and attitudes changed; however there is still much to continue campaigning for and to fight to retain. in common with many oppressed minorities, we are a diverse and many faceted community, we each have different views, different ideas and a multitude of ambitions for ourselves and others. However our unifying goal is true liberation, in the education of, acceptance of, and celebration of, our glorious diversity. Steve Boyce UCU NEC and chair of LGBT members’ standing committee UCU Celebrates lGbt History MontH F017 G Trans people in Europe experience violent 1 in 1 in 12 had experi hate-crime each year source: stonewall threatened at work. Since 1990, 40 countries have decriminalised LGBT facts and figures homosexuality and over 30 87% have outlawed homophobic challeng h hate crimes. source: stonewall source: Pride 1 in 5 people have heard disparaging remarks about transpeople and a quarter of patend-facing staff have heard colleagues make negative remarks lesbian, gay or bi people. source: stonewall 1 in 6 lesbian, gay or bi people have experienced a homophobic or biphobic hate crime or incident 7 in over the last three years. football fan source: the Gay british Crime survey (2013) witnessed the terrace LGBT HISTORY MONTH a match. so Sue Sanders, educator and activist founded LGBT History Month in 2005 H UCU Celebrates lGbt History MontH F017 e are proud of our achievements in lGbt Wequality and pleased to 10 produce this short publication for enced being all members as we raise awareness d or intimidated of lGbt equality. We would first and foremost like to thank all UCU members who have contributed to the work of lGbt equality at UCU. felt confident % the importance of raising issues omophobia at work. and awareness on behalf of lGbt e and Prejudice in education members helps to provide a platform Foreword where lGbt members feel supported. We could not do this without you! as we recognise the gains made in lGbt equality, our members over 69 continue to inform us of the countries now legally discrimination faced through protect LGBT people biphobic, homophobic or transphobic at work; 15 recognise bullying at work. UCU will continue same sex marriage. to challenge this type of discrimina- source: stonewall tion and will issue guidance accordingly – please tell us if you have experience of this by emailing seth atkin ([email protected]). UCU works with a variety of trade unions, organisations and stakeholders, developing guidance and resources, and contributing to consultations in an effort to ensure that workplaces are free from 10 discriminatory practices. our aim ns have heard or is to ensure that as lGbt members, homophobia on you feel that your union is a point of es while watching contact for advice and assistance. ource: out for sport Helen Carr National head of equality and participation UCU Celebrates lGbt History MontH F017 I What is LGBT History Month? LGBT History Month is a month-long annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, including the history of lgb and t rights and related civil rights movements. It is celebrated in February each year to coincide with the 2003 abolition of Section 28. LGBT History Month aims to official guide to lGbt History Month is also l increase the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual produced by schools oUt UK and in 2016, and transgender (lGbt) people, their history, 35,000 copies were distributed to all secondary lives and their experiences in the curriculum schools in the UK. and culture of educational and other institutions, and the wider community Ideas and activities l raise awareness and advance education We would like to encourage all UCU branches on matters affecting the lGbt community to celebrate lGbt History Month by: l work to make educational and other l hosting a film screening of UCU’s latest institutions safe spaces for all lGbt film Removing the Barriers: UCU LGBT communities, and Members’ Experiences l promote the welfare of lGbt people by l displaying the Voices and Visibility wall ensuring that the education system recog- chart, positive images of same-sex couples nises and enables lGbt people to achieve and trans people their full potential, so they contribute fully l hosting a stall displaying UCU lGbt to society and lead fulfilled lives, thus materials benefiting society as a whole. l investigating the contributions made by lGbt people at your college or university since its first celebrations, lGbt History l working alongside your local students Month has grown to become a national event union, organising joint events and activities. in the UK garnering support from many including the government. Founded by to find out about lGbt History Month events schools oUt UK, the overall aim of lGbt being organised around the country, visit the History Month is to promote equality and lGbt History Month website for more details diversity for the benefit of the public. the http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk J UCU Celebrates lGbt History MontH F017 We suggest… that your branch – ideally in conjunction with your local student union – hosts an event UCU LGBT members said… (conference, seminar, meeting) to discuss these issues in an open ‘The presence of a LGBT staff group would have made and inclusive environment. a huge difference. As an early years adult ed tutor and your event may give an HE lecturer I felt that I needed to keep my sexuality opportunity for your branch to and family relationships quiet from my students (and work with your employer on some colleagues), and this was particularly difficult improving lGbt equality; you as the subject matter required conversations about can also use it to build up our own experiences as parents – though funnily networks and to recruit new enough, I felt able to raise issues faced by LGBT parents members. in the abstract, but not my own. Plus I had one job in Contact Seth Atkin FE where I had a very physically intrusive manager, [email protected] for further but as he was an out gay man, I didn’t think anyone information and advice would believe me if I said anything.’ ‘In a way I feel more able to be out among colleagues in my department than elsewhere. But at the same Voices and Visibility wall time there's always the unspoken expectation from chart many colleagues that we're all hetero here. I make a The Voices and Visibility wall point of questioning heteronormative assumptions chart (see overleaf) was when I'm teaching.’ launched at TUC LGBT conference and Pride in London ‘As a trans-expressive person working in a UK in June 2015 to support those university, I have nothing but praise for both my raising awareness of sexual employer and my colleagues. My employer has orientation and gender identity remained understanding, sympathetic and willing equality and diversity. to help in any way possible with my transition to With its focus on UK lGbt alternating gender presentation. When I was, at times, equality, it highlights important worried, the university was always accommodating legal milestones and identifies and highly supportive. This is great news for trans visible and significant contribu- staff and students here.’ tions made by individuals, groups and particularly the labour movement. http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk /wallchart/ UCU Celebrates lGbt History MontH F017 7 People who do not identify as heterosexual (only) have used a number of terms to describe themselves including: homosexual, lesbian, gay, Peoplebisexual, who do queer, not identify pansexual, with their assigned asexual... gender (only) have used and a number of terms to describe themselves including: trans, transgender, transman, transwoman, man, woman, transsexual, Voices crossdresser, transvestite, androgynous, genderqueer... Uncovering Socialist,Edward poet, philosopher Carpenter and Visibilityhidden anthropologist FannyFrederick and Park Stellaand Ernest Boulton histories Law student, bank clerk, theatrical performers Publishes Legal timeline ‘Love’s Coming1906 of Age’ More information and download Death England penalty and Walesfor buggery abolished http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/wallchart/ 1861
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