'Because I didn’t get an LGBT inclusive education, I also didn’t really get a childhood.'
Glasgow’s council has sent “solidarity” to councillors and staff who have faced “horrendous abuse” on social media for promoting LGBT+ inclusive work.
He said he prayed “the kids who outed me weren’t going to tell my family” as his “experiences of conversion therapy, which I was going through, would have gotten so much worse”. “Our responsibility to stop the normalisation of hate towards queer people, our responsibility to stand up for young LGBT people here in this city.”
The education convener thanked council staff, who she said had been “on the receiving end of some abuse” for promoting events, such as ALLIES 23 — Action and Learning for LGBT Inclusive Education in schools — and an annual Pride Lite event in the city chambers. Cllr Holly Bruce, Greens, said she was seven when Section 2A — which stopped councils from intentionally promoting homosexuality — was repealed in 2000 and there was a “cultural hangover” where “schools were still silent, perhaps confused or even afraid of what to do next”.
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