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taken because of an executive manoeuvre).

answer They failed to answer the Group's questions and repeated the only policy they had on the issue which is that:

"teachers (including homosexual teachers) do not have a basic right to instigate classroom discussion on sexual topics irrespective of what subject they teach • • Instructions and answers to questions should properly be the responsibility of the persons officially delegated to do the job in the So, the Group's pamphlet concludes a gay NUT member should behave as follows:

"Pupil: Are you married? Teacher (male): No.

Pupil: Have you got a girlfriend? Teacher: No.

Pupil: Are you bent?

Teacher: Go and see the Head of Biology."

The pamphlet correctly concludes:

"while the NUT has a The Saunders judgement is one of a number of attacks on gay rights which have occurred recently not only in Britain but throughout Europe. • The French parliament recently voted against proposed extension of gay rights (the CP and Socialist parties voting in favour).

But the sharpest attacks are in Greece. In July a gay journal Amfi is to be tried. Last week the Greek censors banned the showing of the British film 'Nighthawks' about a gay teacher in London, because:

"both the content and the scenes of the film dangerously undermine the sane traditions of the Greek people and the accepted moral disgust for homosexuality and will have a destructive Greek youth."

Third, the Greek government has retabled the notorious anti-gay bill "Concerning the Protection from Venereal Diseases and Other Related Matters" , which would allow one year prison sentences to people suspected of "immoral soliciting" in public.

GAY RIGHTS IN THE TEACHING UNIONS Published by the Gay Teachers Group (London 12 Broxholm Road, Wes Norwood, London SE27