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Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 caused the addition of Section 2A to the Local Government Act 1986 (affecting England and Wales and Scotland and Northern Ireland), enacted on 24 May 1988. The amendment stated that a local authority "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship".[1] It was repealed on 21 June 2000 in Scotland as one of the first pieces of legislation enacted by the new Scottish Parliament, and on 18 November 2003 in the rest of the United Kingdom by section 122 of the Local Government Act 2003.[2]
As it did not create a criminal offence, no prosecution was ever brought under this provision, but its existence caused many groups to close or limit their activities or self-censor. For example, a number of lesbian, gay and bisexual student support groups in schools and colleges across Britain were closed owing to fears by council legal staff that they could breach the Act.[3]
While going through Parliament, the amendment was constantly relabelled with a variety of clause numbers as other amendments were added to or deleted from the Bill, but by the final version of the Bill, which received Royal Assent, it had become Section 28. Section 28 is sometimes referred to as Clause 28 – in the United Kingdom, Acts of Parliament have sections, whereas in a Bill (which is put before Parliament to pass) those sections are called clauses.[4] Since the effect of the amendment was to insert a new section '2A' into the previous Local Government Act, it was also sometimes referred to as Section 2A.[5]
Section 28 originated in the social transition in British society from homosexuality as "illegal-but-discussed", to "legal-but-not-always approved", following debate in the 1950s and the 1967 decriminalisation of homosexual acts for those over the age of 21 in the Sexual Offences Act 1967.[6]
The 1980s was the era of Margaret Thatcher's Government, which brought large-scale social changes (see: Thatcherism); it was also the era in which AIDS was first reported. The spread of AIDS brought about widespread fear, much of which was directed at homosexuals and bisexuals. The first recorded victims of the disease were a group of homosexual men,[7] and the disease became associated in the media, and at first even in medical circles, with homosexuals in particular.[8] This encouraged negative sentiments toward homosexuals, which intensified existing opposition to school policies, activities, and practices, which supporters claimed were efforts to be inclusive of sexual minorities, and which opponents deemed as the promotion of homosexuality.[citation needed]
Rising negative sentiments towards homosexuality eventually peaked in 1987, the year before the legislation was enacted. According to the British Social Attitudes Survey, 75% of the then population held homosexual activity to be 'always or mostly wrong', with just 11% believing it to be never wrong. As of 2012, those figures stand at 28% and 47% respectively. Five years prior to the enactment, a similar BSAS poll had found that 61% of Conservative and 67% of Labour identifying voters believed homosexual activity to be 'always or mostly wrong'.[9]
The precursor was the publication in 1979 of LEA Arrangements for the School Curriculum, which required local authorities to publish their curriculum policies. Following the legalisation of homosexuality proposals for Scotland (added as an amendment to the 1980 criminal justice bill by Labour MP Robin Cook), guidance was published indicating that schools should not teach homosexuality as part of sex education lessons. This was part of a deal to ensure government support for legalisation of homosexuality in Scotland.
This was followed, two years later, by The School Curriculum (25 March 1981), in which the secretaries of state (for Education and Wales) said they had decided to 'set out in some detail the approach to the school curriculum which they consider should now be followed in the years ahead'. Every local education authority was expected to frame policies for the school curriculum consistent with the government's 'recommended approach' (DES 1981a:5) which required teaching of only heterosexual sex in schools.
Given the domination of central government by conservative thinking, most gay rights activists were to be found in the Labour Party or the Liberal Party.[citation needed] These campaigners and their supporters progressively managed to raise these issues in local party meetings, resulting in a number of local authorities changing their policies to include the words "sexual orientation" in a list of unacceptable discriminations. The large Metropolitan Borough councils outside the capital, the Inner London Education Authority and the Greater London Council (GLC) regularly took out job adverts in the national press and elsewhere making a very public statement about the unacceptability of homophobic behaviour within their organisations.[citation needed]The GLC also directly started funding gay groups. Between 1981 and 1984 grants totalling at least £292,548 were given by the GLC to a variety of small gay groups and another £751,000 was committed towards the setting up of the London Lesbian and Gay Community Centre in Islington.[10] About ten of the 32 local authorities in London, most prominently Islington and Haringey were also funding gay groups at that time, one report estimating that these boroughs and the GLC together donated more than £600,000 to gay projects and groups during 1984.[11]
In 1983 the Daily Mail, a British tabloid newspaper, reported that a copy of a book entitled Jenny lives with Eric and Martin—portraying a little girl who lives with her father and his homosexual partner—was provided in a school library run by the Labour-controlled Inner London Education Authority. More and more councils began to adopt wide-ranging anti-discrimination policies (particularly Ealing, Islington, Camden and Manchester who employed officers to counter homophobia).[12]
The attention to this, and work within the political parties by activists, led to the adoption at the Labour Party Annual Conference in 1985 of a resolution calling for the end of all legal discrimination against homosexuals. In addition, the election to Manchester City Council of Margaret Roff (November 1985) as the UK's first openly homosexual Mayor and the publication of Changing The World by the GLC in 1985 all fuelled a heightened public awareness of the issues.
But it was not until 1986 that major controversy arose and widespread protest demonstrations made a major contribution towards the subsequent passing of Section 28.[13]
A final factor was the tone taken by some activist groups such as the Gay Liberation Front, cited by the Conservative MP Jill Knight, who introduced Section 28, and who in 1999 spoke about the purpose of that section:
" | Why did I bother to go on with it and run such a dangerous gauntlet? I was then Chairman of the Child and Family Protection Group. I was contacted by parents who strongly objected to their children at school being encouraged into homosexuality and being taught that a normal family with mummy and daddy was outdated. To add insult to their injury, they were infuriated that it was their money, paid over as council tax, which was being used for this. This all happened after pressure from the Gay Liberation Front. At that time I took the trouble to refer to their manifesto, which clearly stated: "We fight for something more than reform. We must aim for the abolition of the family... That was the motivation for what was going on, and was precisely what Section 28 stopped. ... Parents certainly came to me and told me what was going on. They gave me some of the books with which little children as young as five and six were being taught. There was The Playbook for Kids about Sex in which brightly coloured pictures of little stick men showed all about homosexuality and how it was done. That book was for children as young as five. I should be surprised if anybody supports that. Another book called The Milkman's on his Way explicitly described homosexual intercourse and, indeed, glorified it, encouraging youngsters to believe that it was better than any other sexual way of life.[14] |
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As a consequence of the DPP deciding that the CPS could not on balance, under existing legislation prosecute the publishers of the Playbook mentioned above, and the start of local government spending on support groups for LGBT people, papers and Conservative backbench members of Parliament became concerned that left-wing councils or schools would provide children with pro-homosexuality material or commend homosexuality to children, both described by parliamentarians backing the bill as morally wrong but which could be carefully policed by judges in applying a narrow sense to the meaning of the word promote. In 1986 Lord Halsbury first tabled the Local Government Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill[15] subtitled An act to refrain local authorities from promoting homosexuality in the House of Lords, drafted for him by Lord Campbell of Alloway. At the time, the incumbent Conservative government considered Halsbury's bill to be too misleading and risky. The bill successfully passed the House of Lords and Conservative MP Dame Jill Knight had the bill pass the first stage in the Commons. However, impeded by the 1987 general election, this Bill, commonly called the Earl of Halsbury's Bill failed. Its provisions were not reintroduced by the government on its re-election.
Instead, on 2 December 1987 in committee, Conservative MP David Wilshire proposed an amendment to the new Local Government Bill, as not yet passed, debated as Clause 27 and later as Clause 28, intended to be equivalent to the Earl of Halsbury's Bill.[16] The government agreed to support the tabling of the amendment in exchange for Knight forgoing her place on the Health and Medicines Bill standing committee,[17] – the amendment received the support of the Ministers for Local Government, Michael Howard and Michael Portillo. On being tabled, a compromise amendment was introduced by Simon Hughes on 8 December 1987 that was debated in the House on 15 December 1987 and which was defeated by a majority of 87,[15] and the bill was approved on its first Commons debate that day. The bill was read a first time in the Lords two days later.[18]
Lord McIntosh of Haringey took up the mantle of Simon Hughes' amendments in the Lords' second reading, furthered by the Bishop of Manchester Stanley Booth-Clibborn:
I should regret it if this Bill were to go through with this clause unamended. If it were to do so, I think it should certainly be confined to schools because otherwise there would be a real danger that some organisations which do good work in helping those with homosexual orientation, psychologically and in other ways, would be very much impeded.
A spectrum of literature across the ages was cited (in support of these compromise amendments) by Lord Peston. Nonetheless the Bill passed second reading in the Lords before going to a whole house committee.[19]
In that debate Lord Boyd-Carpenter cited a book display, and proposals for "gay books" to be present in a children's home and a gay pride week to be permissible in schools by named London councils. However on questioning, he said, "of course, 'promotion' can be treated in different ways. If the clause becomes law it will be a matter for the courts to interpret in the sensible way in which the courts do interpret the law." The SDP peer Viscount Falkland with Lord Henderson of Brompton proposed another compromise amendment the so-called "Arts Council" amendment and remarked "There is a suggestion in the clause that in no way can a homosexual have a loving, caring or responsible relationship".
Lord Somers countered:
One has only to look through the entire animal world to realise that it is abnormal. In any case, the clause as it stands does not prohibit homosexuality in any form; it merely discourages the teaching of it. When one is young at school one is very impressionable and may just as easily pick up bad habits as good habits.
The narrowing amendment failed by a majority of 55 voting against it; and the Lords voted the clause through the following day by a majority of 80.[20][21] Michael Colvin MP thus on 8 March asked whether the minister, Christopher Chope would discuss with the Association of London Authorities the level of expenditure by local authorities in London on support for gay and lesbian groups to which he replied:
No. Clause 28 of the Local Government Bill will ensure that expenditure by local authorities for the purpose of promoting homosexuality will no longer be permitted.[22]
The following day Tony Benn said in debate:
...if the sense of the word "promote" can be read across from "describe", every murder play promotes murder, every war play promotes war, every drama involving the eternal triangle promotes adultery; and Mr. Richard Branson's condom campaign promotes fornication. The House had better be very careful before it gives to judges, who come from a narrow section of society, the power to interpret "promote".
Mr Wilshire added that "there is an awful lot more promotion of homosexuality going on by local government outside classrooms." and the tempering amendments of that day's final debate were defeated by 53 votes.[23]
Section 28 became law on 24 May 1988. The night before, several protests were staged by lesbian women (one believed to be Annie "Mechanic" who lived at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp), including abseiling into Parliament and a famous invasion of the BBC's Six O'Clock News,[4] during which one woman managed to chain herself to Sue Lawley's desk and was sat on by the newscaster Nicholas Witchell.[24]
Controversy over applicability[edit]
After Section 28 was passed, there was some debate as to whether it actually applied in schools or whether it applied only to local authorities. Whilst head teachers and Boards of Governors were specifically exempt, schools and teachers became confused as to what was actually permitted and tended to err on the side of caution.
A National Union of Teachers (NUT) statement remarked that "While Section 28 applies to local authorities and not to schools, many teachers believe, albeit wrongly, that it imposes constraints in respect of the advice and counselling they give to pupils. Professional judgement is therefore influenced by the perceived prospect of prosecution."[25]
Similarly, the Department for Education and Science made the following statement in 1988 regarding Section 28:
" | Section 28 does not affect the activities of school governors, nor of teachers... It will not prevent the objective discussion of homosexuality in the classroom, nor the counselling of pupils concerned about their sexuality.[26] | " |
It is said that when Knight heard this, she was somewhat upset, remarking that:
" | This has got to be a mistake. The major point of it was to protect children in schools from having homosexuality thrust upon them.[26] | " |
In response to these criticisms, supporters claimed that the NUT and Department of Education were mistaken, and the section did affect schools.
Some local authorities continued to deliver training to their staff in their education system on how to deliver their services without discrimination against homosexuals. Manchester City Council continued to sustain four officer posts directly involved in policy making and implementation, contributing to the 1992 report ("Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988: a Guide for Workers in the Education Service, produced by Manchester City Council, May 1992.") which proved that Section 28 did not prevent this work.[12] Their pioneering work was never once challenged by the act.
Before its repeal, Section 28 was already largely redundant: sex education in England and Wales has been regulated solely by the Secretary of State for Education since the Learning and Skills Act 2000 and the Education Act 1996. Nevertheless, many liberal and conservative campaigners still saw Section 28 as a symbolic issue and continued to fight their own particular causes over it until its repeal.
Political response[edit]
The introduction of Section 28 served to galvanise the disparate British gay rights movement into action. The resulting protest saw the rise of now famous groups like Stonewall,[4] started by, amongst other people, Ian McKellen, and OutRage!,[4] subsequently led by Peter Tatchell.[citation needed] Schools OUT which had been formed back in 1974 worked tirelessly both against the act and supported and trained teachers on how to counter homophobia and make LGBT people visible in schools.
While the gay rights movement was united over Section 28, the issue began to divide the Conservative party, heightening divisions between party modernists and traditionalists. In 1999 Conservative leader William Hague controversially sacked frontbencher Shaun Woodward for refusing to support the party line for Section 28's retention,[27] prompting pro-gay rights Conservatives, such as Steve Norris, to speak out against the decision. 2000 saw gay Conservative advisor Ivan Massow defect to the Labour Party in response to the Conservative Party's continued support of Section 28.[28]
There is only one reported case of Section 28 being used before the courts against a Council. In May 2000— seemingly the first and last case of its kind—the Christian Institute unsuccessfully took Glasgow City Council to court for funding an AIDS support charity which the Institute alleged promoted homosexuality.
In 2013, the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prompted critical comment from many LGBT organisations and individuals such as Peter Tatchell about her legacy, including Section 28 (or Clause 28).[29][30]
On 7 February 2000, the first attempted legislation to repeal Section 28 was introduced by the Labour Government as part of the Local Government Act 2000, but was defeated by a House of Lords campaign led by Baroness Young.
In the newly devolved Scottish Parliament the repeal process was more successful. The Equality Network led the campaign in favour of scrapping Section 28, while various groups campaigned against the repeal. The Scottish millionaire businessman Brian Souter privately funded a postal ballot as part of his Keep the Clause campaign, which returned an apparent 86% support for keeping the clause, from a response from slightly less than one third of the 3.9 million registered Scottish voters.[31][32] Despite this, Section 28 (although, more accurately, it was Section 2A of the relevant Scottish legislation) was repealed by MSPs as part of the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 on 21 June 2000 with a 99 to 17 majority vote with only two abstentions.
On 24 July 2000 the Local Government Act 2000 was sent back to the Lords with an amendment re-introducing repeal. Concessions were made in the form of the new Learning and Skills Act 2000 which emphasised family values and which was hoped would win over opponents. However, the repeal was again defeated in the House of Lords.
Despite these successive defeats in the House of Lords of attempts to repeal Section 28 in England and Wales, the Labour government passed legislation to repeal this section as part of the Local Government Act 2003 by a vote of MPs.[33]
In a part of the legal process (Standing Committee A) Edward Davey said "In a liberal democracy, the need to protect minorities properly sometimes means that protection cannot be achieved through the ballot box and that some things are not appropriate for a vote."[34]
This passed the Lords, received Royal Assent on 18 September 2003, and the repeal became effective on 18 November 2003.
The Conservative-run Kent County Council, however, decided to create their own version of Section 28 to keep the effect of the now repealed law in their schools.[35] This was replaced on 16 December 2004 with provisions stating that heterosexual marriage and family relationships are the only firm foundations for society.[36] The statement now says: "We will ensure that sex education values family and marriage as the foundation of a civilised society, and a firm basis for the nurturing of children."[37]
Section 28 was supported by religious groups such as the Salvation Army,[38] the Christian Institute, the African and Caribbean Evangelical Association, Christian Action Research and Education, the Muslim Council of Britain, and groups within the Catholic Church and the Church of England. The Conservative Party, despite dissent within its ranks on the issue, whipped its members in support of Section 28 in 2000, but in 2003, after further dissent from within the party, allowed a free vote. In the House of Lords, the campaign against the repeal of Section 28 was led by the late Baroness Janet Young. Newspapers that strongly supported Section 28 included The Daily Mail, The Sun and The Daily Telegraph.
In Scotland the most visible supporters of Section 28 were Brian Souter and the Daily Record newspaper.
The main argument in support of Section 28 was to protect children from "predatory homosexuals" and advocates seeking to "indoctrinate" vulnerable young people into homosexuality. Various other arguments were also used in support of Section 28 which are summarised as follows:
- That promotion of homosexuality in schools undermines marriage.
- That Section 28 prohibited only the promotion, not legitimate discussion of homosexuality.
- That Section 28 did not prevent the counselling of pupils who are being bullied.
- Proponents pointed to various polls in an attempt to demonstrate that public opinion favoured keeping Section 28.[39][40][41][42][43][44]
Gay rights advocates, such as Stonewall, OutRage!, Capital Gay, The Pink Paper and the Gay Times formed the major opposition to Section 28 and led the campaign for its repeal. Prominent individuals who spoke out for the repeal of Section 28 included Sir Ian McKellen, Michael Cashman, Ivan Massow, Mo Mowlam, Simon Callow, Annette Crosbie, Michael Grade, Jane Horrocks, Michael Mansfield QC, Helen Mirren, Claire Rayner, Ned Sherrin and Alan Moore.
A packed benefit held at the Piccadilly Theatre on 5th June called "Before the Act" mustered over 60 performers, among them Timothy West, Michael Cashman, Simon Rattle, Paul Eddington, Maureen Lipman, the Medici Quartet, the Pet Shop Boys, Maggie Ford, Sheila Hancock, Jill Bennett, Stephen Fry, Richard Griffiths, Harold Pinter, Joan Plowright, Anthony Sher, Michael Cashman, Ned Sherrin and Ian McKellen.
A coalition of comic book creators, including Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Neil Gaiman, and many others, produced a comic anthology called AARGH and raised at least £17,000 to contribute to the fight against the legislation, according to Moore.[46] Boy George wrote a song opposed to Section 28, entitled "No Clause 28". The band Chumbawamba recorded a single entitled "Smash Clause 28! Fight the Alton Bill!" which was an attack on Clause/Section 28 and a benefit for a gay rights group; it also featured 12 pages of hand printed notes relating to gay rights. The legislation was also opposed by some religious groups and leaders, such as Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford. Newspapers that came out in opposition included The Guardian, The Independent and The Daily Mirror.
Political parties that were opposed to Section 28 included the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party. In the House of Lords the campaign for repeal was led by openly-gay peer Waheed Alli. Perhaps the most famous act of opposition to Section 28 came when Shaun Woodward, a Conservative MP with a transgender sister, defected from the Conservative Party and his seat and joined the ruling Labour Party in opposition to the Conservatives' continued support of Section 28.
Due in part to the alliances between LGBT and labour unions forged by the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign of 1984, several labour unions including the National Union of Mineworkers also opposed the legislation.[47]
The main point of argument claimed by opponents of Section 28 was the complaint that it discriminated against homosexuals and bisexuals, and hence was an intolerant and unjust law. Various other arguments were also used against Section 28 which are summarised as follows:
- That, by excluding homosexual support groups and appearing to prevent teachers from protecting victims of homophobic bullying, Section 28 was actually endangering vulnerable children.
- The claim that Section 28 made the assumption that homosexuals were inherently dangerous to children, implying an association between homosexuality, bisexuality and paedophilia, as obvious from the "predatory homosexuals" argument of the supporters of the law.
- Not only did Section 28 prevent the active promotion of homosexuality but also it appeared to give a legal reason to oppose it in schools and other forums if necessary.
- The claim that Section 28 was a law which gave an impression to the public that the government sanctioned homophobia.
- The idea that homosexuality could be "promoted" implied that homosexuality was a choice which people could be persuaded to make, in contrast to the Section's opponents' view that homosexuality is biologically determined.
- It was no longer relevant due to the Learning and Skills Act of 2000 and the Education Act of 1996.
In retrospect[edit]
Some prominent MPs who supported the bill when it was first introduced have since either expressed regret over their support, changed their stance due to different circumstances which have evolved over time, or have argued that the legislation is no longer necessary.
In an interview with gay magazine Attitude during the 2005 election, Michael Howard, then leader of the Conservative Party, commented:
- [Section 28] was brought in to deal with what was seen to be a specific problem at the time. The problem was the kind of literature that was being used in some schools and distributed to very young children that was seen to promote homosexuality..... I thought, rightly or wrongly, that there was a problem in those days. That problem simply doesn't exist now. Nobody's fussed about those issues any more. It's not a problem, so the law shouldn't be hanging around on the statute book.[48]
In February 2006, Conservative Party Chairman Francis Maude told Pinknews.co.uk that the policy, which he had voted for, was wrong and a mistake.[49]
In 2000, David Cameron (at that time an unelected Conservative party member) repeatedly attacked the Labour government's plans to abolish Section 28, publicly criticising then-Prime Minister Tony Blair as being "anti-family" and accusing him of wanting the "promotion of homosexuality in schools".[50] In 2003, Cameron was elected as Conservative MP for Witney; he continued to support Section 28, voting against its repeal in that year.[51] The Labour government were determined to remove Section 28 from law, and Cameron voted in favour of a Conservative amendment that retained certain aspects of the clause, which gay rights campaigners described as "Section 28 by the back door".[52] The Conservative amendment was unsuccessful, and Section 28 was repealed by the Labour government without concession, with Cameron absent for the vote on its eventual repeal. However, in June 2009, Cameron, then leader of the Conservative Party, formally apologised for his party's introduction of the law, stating that it was a mistake and had been offensive to gay people.[53] He restated this belief in January 2010, proposing to alter Conservative Party policy to reflect his belief that equality should be taught in British schools[54] though he has yet to further this proposal since he became Prime Minister in May 2010.[citation needed]
Section 28 received renewed attention in late 2011, when Michael Gove, in Clause 28 of the Model Funding Agreement for academies and free schools, added the stipulation that the benefits of marriage be taught in schools.[55] Although the clause does not explicitly mention sexual orientation, with same-sex marriage not being legal at the time, it prompted The Daily Telegraph (traditionally supportive of the Conservative Party) to draw comparisons between the two clauses.[56]
Academies and the Department for Education came under greater scrutiny in August 2013, when LGBT activists, in co-ordination with the British Humanist Association (BHA), identified over forty schools whose policies either replicated the language of Section 28 in their sex and relationship education (SRE) policies or were "unhelpfully vague" on the issue.[57] Several of the schools highlighted by the BHA included the Evelyn Grace Academy chain of faith schools – which opened after the repeal of Section 28, Tasker-Milward V.C. School, whose SRE policy, dating from 2008, implied the clause was still in force, and The Northumberland Church of England Academy, who was listed as a School Champion by LGB rights charity Stonewall and whose staff spoke at Stonewall's 2013 Education for All Conference.[58] In light of the media coverage, the Welsh Government announced an investigation into the Tasker-Milward School,[59] and the Department for Education, announcing its own investigation, stated that schools were prohibited under DfE guidance from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.[60]
Cultural depictions[edit]
- Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho (2013) A drag comedy musical play imagining what life would have been like if Margaret Thatcher had got lost in Soho on the eve of the vote for section 28. It was produced in December 2013 by Jon Brittain, Aine Flanagan, Matt Tedford at Theatre503 in London[61]
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- ^ In autumn 1986 a group of parents in the north-east London Borough of Haringey began making complaints about a book that was available to school children. What started out as a request for the removal of one book, turned into a series of demonstrations (both for and against) on the streets of Wood Green and Tottenham and eventually on the streets of cities across the nation.
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- ^ "Solidarity and Sexuality: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners 1984–5". Oxford History Workshop Journal, Volume 77, Issue 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 240–262.
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- ^ Free Schools model funding agreement
- ^ Free schools and academies must promote marriage
- ^ The return of Section 28: Schools and academies practising homophobic policy that was outlawed under Tony Blair
- ^ BHA identifies 45 schools that continue to have section 28-like policies
- ^ Investigation launched after Welsh school's sex education policy suggests teachers should not 'promote' homosexuality
- ^ UK Government: No schools should be reintroducing Section 28
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Later Koryŏ: 12th century to 1392
Even after the period of Koryŏ military rule, which lasted from the late 12th century to the mid-13th century, literature in Chinese continued to prosper. It revolved around Kim Kŭk-Gi and the group known as Chungnim Kohoe ("Eminent Assembly in the Bamboo Grove"), which was established by O Se-Jae, Yi Il-Lo, Yi Kyu-Bo, and others. This group was integral to the emergence and proliferation of literary criticism during this period. Yi Il-Lo, in his P'ahan chip (1260; "Jottings to Break Up Idleness"), defends the value of literature and praises the beautifully chiseled sentence. Yi Kyu-Bo's Paegun sosŏl ("Jottings by Old Man White Cloud") contains a vigorous debate on literary theory and artistic creation. He counters Yi Il-Lo's emphasis on beauty, declaring that content takes precedent over ornamentation in literature and that creativity is important above all else. Works such as Ch'oe Cha's Pohan chip ("Collection to Relieve Idleness"), Ch'oe Hae's Tongin chi mun ("Writings of the Eastern People"), and Yi Che-Hyŏn's Yŏgong p'aesŏl ("Lowly Jottings by Old Man Oak") illustrate the views on literature of the newly risen scholar-bureaucrats active in this period.
The creation of Buddhist literature, centred on Sŏn (Zen) Buddhism, enlarged the sphere of later Koryŏ literature. It featured the writings of the monk Chinul as well as the monks Hyeshim, Ch'ungji, Kyŏnghan, Pou, and Hyegŭn.
Yi Kyu-Bo's Tongmyŏng wangp'yŏn ("Saga of King Tongmyŏng") re-created the founding of the Koguryŏ kingdom. Kakhun's Haedong kosŭng chŏn (1215; "Lives of Eminent Korean Monks") departs from the historiographical standards of the Samguk sagi but also shows a stronger awareness of the history of the ordinary citizen, something echoed in other works of the period. An epic poem, Yi Sŭng-Hyu's Chewang ungi (1287; "Songs of Emperors and Kings"), contrasts the Korean people's history with that of the Chinese.
Another feature of the later Koryŏ period is the considerable amount of literature in Chinese devoted to the chŏn, an account of a person's life. Yi Saek, for instance, wrote accounts of individuals who never achieved public recognition for their accomplishments during their lifetimes, and Yi Kyu-Bo and Ch'oe Hae wrote t'akchŏn, accounts that praised the author himself but referred to him by a fictitious name. And a new form appeared, the kajŏn, or fictional biography, which treated objects as people and told their life stories. Works such as Im Ch'un's Kongban chŏn ("Tale of Master Coin") and Kuksun chŏn ("Tale of Master Malt"), Yi Kyu-Bo's Kuk Sŏnsaeng chŏn ("Tale of Sir Malt"), Yi Kok's Chuk Puin chŏn ("Tale of Madame Bamboo"), and Yi Ch'ŏm's Chŏ Saeng chŏn ("Tale of Yangban Paper") relate their narratives via the device of personifying their title objects.
The sogak kasa, or popular song texts, introduced in the chapters on music in the Koryŏ sa ("History of Koryŏ") and handed down in the Akchang kasa ("Collection of Courtly Songs"), are another late Koryŏ genre. These songs were sung at court. Among them are songs that deal with the traditions of the Three Kingdoms period, such as "Chŏngŭp sa
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" ("Song of the Western Capital"), all of which take love between men and women as their subject, and "Ch'ŏngsan pyŏlgok
" ("Green Mountain Song"), which describes the hopes of the wanderer and the despair of the intellectual. Apart from these, there are short songs referred to as tanjang—examples include "Yugu kok
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" ("Song of the Pestle")—and long songs called yŏnjang. Soakpu ("Little Song Book"), compiled by Yi Che-Hyŏn and Min Sa-P'yŏng, consists of poems in Chinese similar in content to folk songs.
While members of the new class of scholar-bureaucrats were assuming positions of leadership in literature, the kyŏnggi-style poem first emerged in the form of songs boasting of the elegance of these men. "Hallim pyŏlgok
" ("Song of the Confucian Academicians"), a joint composition of literati during the reign of Kojong (1213–59), was the first kyŏnggi-style poem. An Ch'uk wrote two others, "Chukkye pyŏlgok
" ("Song of the Bamboo Stream") and "Kwandong pyŏlgok
" ("Song of Diamond Mountain"). These poems are in both Korean and Chinese, with Chinese words and phrases used to describe objects and locales and to express the authors' pride and interest in literati society and in themselves as officials. Sijo and kasa, which would become the leading poetic genres in the Chosŏn period, also originated at this time. "Sŭngwŏn ka
" by the monk Hyegŭn, transcribed in hyangch'al, explains Buddhist doctrine and confirms the emergence of the kasa form at the end of Koryŏ period. The sijo, consisting of three lines, followed a lyrical path and spoke of human nature and natural beauty. Only a few examples, by such men as U T'ak and Yi Cho-Nyŏn, survive today.

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April 17, 2015 ~ Feather Report: Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinicus) FIRST OF THE SEASON! |
Tour: Back Island Birding Interested in joining our Naturalists for a birding tour? Call the Nature Center at 843.768.6001 for availability and reservations. Photo by Joe Voicheck |
April 16, 2015 ~ Swamp Darner (Epiaeschna heros) | |
This swamp Darner was found this morning perched on the side of a car. This is one of North America's largest dragon flies and can be identified by the large blue eyes and the greenish thoracic stripes. Although still alive, this individual was lethargic most likely due to the low temperatures this morning. Many dragon fly species, such as the swamp Darner, lay their eggs in the mud or moist vegetation which can be affected by herbicides and pesticides sprayed on the ground. They eat a variety of insects, so they are great to have around to fight off the mosquitoes and no-see-ums! |
March 25, 2015 ~ Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis) | |
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March 24, 2015 ~ Feather Report | |
Species list from Back Island Birding tour with Naturalist Juliana Smith: |
March 19, 2015 ~ Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) | |
This photo of a male Eastern Bluebird was taken by island guest Michael Haley at Rhett's Bluff. There are numerous bluebird boxes on Kiawah that are monitored by volunteers during the summertime for activity. Eggs and hatchlings are recorded in part of Town Biologist Aaron Given's bluebird research. Photo by Michael Haley |
March 10, 2015 ~ Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) | |
Spring has sprung and the ospreys are busy! Photo by Pam Cohen |
February 21, 2015 ~ White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) | |
Island guest Keith Lowrie took this photo of a buck on one of Kiawah beach boardwalks. Mr Lowrie asked our Naturalists, why would a buck have antlers this time of year? The answer is…it's all about testosterone levels. After the breeding season, testosterone levels begin to drop causing antlers start to shed. Antlers are shed from early December through March. On Kiawah, female fawns that come into estrous their first year often do so in late winter. Consequently, our bucks can still be breeding during February. The drop can also depend on the amount of stress on the buck after the rut, heredity and nutrition. Deer that are in the best physical condition will lose their antlers later in the winter. |
February 18, 2015 ~ Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) | |
This morning on Kiawah, 7 year old Evan and Mikah Skye from Ann Arbor MI found this perfect skull from a Bottlenose Dolphin. Very Cool! |
February 12, 2015 ~ Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) | |
Town Biologist, Jim Jordan, spotted a Roseate Spoonbill today in Blue Heron Pond. This is a rare sighting for Kiawah. |
February 13, 2015 ~ Feather Report | |
Tour: Birding for Beginners Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Double-crested Cormorant, Pied-billed grebe, American Coot, Common Gallinule, American Crow, Fish Crow, Black Vulture, American Robin, Eastern Bluebird, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Wood Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Downy Woodpecker, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, White-throated Sparrow, Yellow-throated Warbler, Black & White Warbler, Bald Eagle, Northern Mockingbird, Eastern Phoebe, Northern Cardinal, Carolina Wren, House Finch, Belted Kingfisher, Great Blue Heron, Laughing Gull, Turkey Vulture Join our Naturalists on a birding tour to learn about Kiawah's native birds. Call the Nature Center for more information and reservations: 843.768.6001 |
February 12, 2015 ~ Red Knot (Calidris canutus) | |
On a recent Back Island Birding tour, naturalists Brogin Van Skoik and Jake Zadik spotted a Red Knot on the shore near the Ocean Course that was banded. After reporting this sighting to bandedbirds.org, we found out that this Red Knot likes to visit Kiawah every winter and visits Avalon, New Jersey in the spring and fall as it migrates toward the North Pole. These birds make one of the longest migrations, over 9,000 miles, from the Artic to South America. This bird was first banded May 17, 2010 along the Delaware Bayshore in New Jersey. Interested in learning more about the birds of Kiawah? Join our Naturalists for a Back Island Birding or Birding for Beginners Tour! Call the Nature Center for availability and reservations: 843.768.6001 |
January 21, 2015 ~ Saltmarsh Sparrow (Ammodramus caudacutus) | |
Naturalists helped Aaron Given, Kiawah Island Town Biologist, with his Winter Marsh Sparrow Banding. Three species of coastal marsh sparrows winter in Kiawah's saltmarshes: Seaside Sparrow, Nelson's Sparrow, and Saltmarsh Sparrow. This group is considered of high conservation due to their loss of habitat from development and sea-level rise. Birds are captured in mist nets and are identified, banded, and measured. Naturalists captured 49 birds, some new and others recaptures! Interested in learning more about the birds of Kiawah? Join our Naturalists for a Back Island Birding or Birding for Beginners Tour! Call the Nature Center for availability and reservations: 843.768.6001 Photos by Jake Zadik |
January 14, 2015 ~ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) | |
A female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ran into the window of the classroom at the Nature Center, causing her to be disoriented. We took advantage of this close-up opportunity with the bird before we placed her in a secluded spot to recover. As the name indicates, these birds eat mostly sap from trees and the insects that collect in the sap. They are wintertime visitors on Kiawah and can be seen throughout the maritime forest, drilling perfect lines of holes around a tree. Interested in learning more about the birds of Kiawah? Join our Naturalists for a Back Island Birding or Birding for Beginners Tour! Call the Nature Center for availability and reservations: 843.768.6001 |
January 5, 2015 ~ 115th Audubon Christmas Bird Count | |
From December 14th through January 5th, tens of thousands of people participate in one of the largest and longest running Citizen Science surveys in the world. The Audubon Christmas Bird Count was started over a century ago in 1900 when ornithologist Frank Chapman proposed a bird census. Before his proposal, there was a common holiday tradition called the "Side Hunt" where hunters would go out to the field, choose a side, and whoever came back with the highest amount of birds, won. Many observers and scientists were beginning to worry about the decline in bird populations due to hunting and the use of their feathers in hat fashion. So instead of hunting the birds during the holidays, they would count them. The first bird count had a total of 27 participants in 25 different locations around the United States. Around 90 species were counted. Today, there are over 60,000 participants and over 2,300 locations conducted across North America, South America, and other countries. The data collected from these counts is critical in providing long term health and statuses of hundreds of species of birds. The Sea Islands Christmas Bird Count is hosted by the Town of Kiawah Island and organized by Town Biologist, Aaron Given. The count encompasses 17 territories that include Seabrook Island, Kiawah Island, Wadmalaw Island, John's Island, and Deveaux Bank. Forty-five participants enjoyed pleasant weather as they counted over 40,000 birds and 159 different species. Some species highlights: Northern Bobwhite, Snow Goose, Glossy Ibis, American Woodcock, and Roseate Spoonbills. Most of the naturalists were observing from the motorboat on the Kiawah River, while others observed different parts of the island. Two of our naturalists, Juliana Smith and Matt Arnold, woke up in the wee hours of the morning to go owling for the count and heard an Eastern Screech Owl. Join a naturalist for a birding tour to learn more about the different bird species and various habitats on Kiawah. |


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first aired on CBS in the summer of 2002, viewers have noted (and sometimes complained about) the continuing number of product placements in the show. Sponsoring products have been incorporated directly into the production, ranging from food rewards to computer "cafes" to SUVs for overnight sleeping. Now, with his new NBC show
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Pete Smith wrote: > Another notion that occurs to me is that with the Steppirs, you could > detune some of the antennas at any given time. That *might* produce a > situation where you could run, say, an 8-high close-spaced stack > (optimized for 10 meters), and then "remove" some of the antennas from > the stack for 15 and 20. You'd still have $3-400 K left for land. > > The idea of individually tuning the antennas (on each band) to > compensate for their distance from ground (or from each other) is > intriguing. I have always wondered how you could put identical yagis in > an HF stack and not be giving away something in gain or pattern. > > 73, Pete N4ZR It's really no different than tuning the elements on a single boom. The challenge, I've found, is setting up an appropriate goal function for the optimizer. This is not much different than the currently fashionable ESPAR arrays for wireless work. (A single driven element in the middle of a circle of passive parasitic elements with varactors on the parasitic elements) _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list email@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk |
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The bears are comin' down the mountain an' eatin' livestock.
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In all of its forty years, Denver's Su Teatro has never performed a more iconic work than the satire I Don't Speak English Only. And considering that nearly everything the troupe and artistic director Tony Garcia touch is entrenched in Chicano culture and activism, that's saying a lot.
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Bangalore, Feb 12 (IANS) India's flamboyant all-rounder Yuvraj Singh was sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for a staggering Rs.14 crore while Dinesh Karthik was bought by Delhi Daredevils for a whopping Rs.12.5 crore in the players' auction for the seventh edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) here Wednesday.
Yuvraj and Karthik fetched the highest price among the 16 marquee players, who were up for grabs in the first session of auction.
Besides Karthik, Daredevils, who didn't retain any player, bought back maverick former England captain Kevin Pietersen for Rs.9 crore and India's Test opener Murali Vijay for a handsome Rs.5 crore. Vijay, who was earlier with Chennai Super Kings, was the first cricketer to go under the hammer.
The second cricketer up for auction was Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene, who was the only one among the marquee players to go unsold.
Pietsersen was first sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs.9 crore but Daredevils used the Right to Match (RTM) card to buy him back.
Royal Challengers almost got Yuvraj for Rs.4 crore cheaper but auctioneer Richard Madley had to open the bidding again after he missed Knight Riders bid. What followed next was a close battle between Royal Challangers and Knight Riders and finally the Bangalore franchise sealed the deal.
Australia's Ashes hero Mitchell Johnson was sold to Kings XI Punjab for Rs.6.50 crore while his compatriot David Warner went to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs.5.5 crore.
India discard Virender Sehwag went to Kings XI Punjab for Rs.3.2 crore while Kolkata Knight Riders used their RTM card to buy back South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis for Rs.5.5 crore that was made by Chennai Super Kings.
In the next set of marquee players, Australia's T20 captain George Bailey went to Kings XI for Rs.3.25 crore while Sunrisers used their RTM card to buy back West Indies Test and T20 captain Darren Sammy from Daredevils for Rs.3.5 crore.
Super Kings also used their only RTM card to buy back South African Faf du Plesis from Daredevils for Rs.4.75 crore.
Daredevils bagged Karthik for Rs.12.5 crore after a competitive bidding with Sunrisers and Kiwi captain Brendon McCullum went to Super Kings for Rs.3.25 crore.
Mumbai Indians bought Mike Hussey (Rs.5 crores) and Zaheer Khan (Rs.2.6 crore) while Sunrisers used the RTM card to buy back Amit Mishra (Rs.4.75 crore) from Daredevils.
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