Chart showing the rise in homophobic hate crimes in London over the last few years (source Met Police) As the recent attack on two women taking a night bus in Camden (London) shows, these attacks are often perpetrated by young people; in their case the two women were assaulted and left covered in blood by a group of boys aged between 15 and 18. Unfortunately religious people (Islamic) in various places around the country remain insistent that their children should not receive education on LGBT+ relationships (i.e. simply that they exist). The rest of us live in hope that these mis-guided and short-sighted people can perhaps now see why this kind of education is important. Just as teaching our children that there are many religions in the world and that other people's weird and wonderful supernatural delusions should be at least tolerated, we should also have the open-mindedness to do the same for other important minorities like LGBT+ people.
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