ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on an evaluation of interventions by 'Educate & Celebrate', a charity based in London but working throughout the UK and beyond. The charity works to 'usualize' LGBTQI+ people and their lives across school curricula, policy, community and environment. The analysis of Educate & Celebrate was carried out on following levels. The chapter addresses pragmatic and technical issues related to bullying, curriculum, policy and visibility. It finds that the perceptions of the children and teachers involved in the programme and to describes some of their personal experiences of it. The chapter investigates whether Educate & Celebrate enhanced or subverted homonormative approaches to LGBTQI+ issues in schools. It discusses that what people found when they returned to the research schools after the programme had been completed. The chapter shows that schools had tended to tighten up their discipline policies so that the official response to homophobic, biphobic and transphobic language was same as the response to racist language.
