Pretended is a vivid historical, political and cultural account of
schools and teaching under Section 28, a law that banned schools in
the UK from promoting homosexuality as a 'pretended family
relationship'. Catherine Lee was a teacher in schools for each of
the 15 years that Section 28 was law (between 1988 and 2003). In
Pretended, she considers the landscape for lesbian and gay teachers
leading up to, during and after Section 28. Drawing on her diary
entries from the Section 28 era, Lee poignantly recalls the
challenges and incidents affecting her and thousands of other
teachers during this period of state-sanctioned homophobia. She
reveals how these diaries led to her involvement in the 2022
feature film Blue Jean, and describes how this unexpected
opportunity helped her to make peace with Section 28. Pretended
will resonate with every lesbian and gay teacher who experienced
Section 28 and will shock those who previously knew nothing about
this law. Crucially, Pretended will explain to those who were
lesbian and gay students during Section 28 why they never saw
people like them in the curriculum, never had a role model and
never had an adult in school to talk to about their identity.
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