Abstract
This chapter takes as its starting point the increasing support of the Black Lives Matter movement in May 2020 and the debate on the teaching of critical race theory in high schools in the United States. On that basis, it reflects on the influence that education and language exert on LGBT matters and other social, political and cultural topics. On the basis of examples from the history of LGBT rights since Stonewall, it analyses the way in which language and education have shaped society’s discourse with LGBT issues but also the cultural conditions within which LGBT life existed. Section 28 – the legal provision that banned the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in British schools and that finds an echo today in the laws of various countries, including Hungary and Russia – is representative for the tension that restrictive laws on education can generate for the relationship between the LGBT community, teachers and wider segments of society. The chapter concludes that language and education have revelatory value: a critical engagement with their manifestation in a given society allows for significant insight into societal perception and treatment of LGBT-relevant topics.
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