ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the media context relating to LGBTQI+ parents in the UK. In the UK, media and politics are intertwined in multiple ways. The chapter provides an overview of the media context and the ways in which it influences and is influenced by policy. It outlines the themes arising from a media survey of UK and Irish newspapers, using the ProQuest Newsstand database to sample four weeks evenly spaced between September 2014 and August 2015, and NVivo to code the themes arising from the survey. The chapter explores where children and young people get their ideas about famous LGBTQI+ parents, and the differences between what children know about LGBTQI+ people and their lives, and what teachers believe they are aware of and understand. The group of positively represented LGBTQI+ parents have also created their families in a way which indicates it was a feature of their projects of self-actualization.
