It is now common for schools to celebrate Pride and LGBTQ+ History Month each year. Schools were not always like this though. For 15 years between 1988 and 2003, a law called Section 28 prevented the promotion of ‘the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship’. Section 28 caused controversy and confusion for teachers who had no idea how not to promote homosexuality as pretended.
In 1983, a Danish children’s book called Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin was translated into English and bought by an independent publisher in the UK. The book had a yellow cover and, rather than illustrations, included black and white photographs of a young girl called Jenny, with her two dads, Eric and Martin. It was the first children’s book in the UK to feature a child with same-sex parents.
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