ABSTRACT
In 2007 the author wrote a sequence of lesson plans to help teachers deliver lessons on equality with a lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) focus, called Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools: An Early Years Resource. Any child living in a family, in contact with uncles, aunts, cousins, stepbrothers and stepsisters, or in a street where neighbours talk to one another, is going to have been in contact with a gay person. Children also need to be learning that they may identify or may not identify as LGBT as they grow up, and that whoever they grow into as an adult is also perfectly normal and acceptable. No longer should we separate LGBT education from education about other equalities; equality is best taught in the context of British law, where all protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010 are included in a curriculum that celebrates difference.
