According to reports, a £63,000 study has been commissioned to explore the feasibility of building the school in Manchester.
The current outline reveals plans to teach 40 full-time students, while also offering 20 part-time spots.
Speaking about the plan to The Guardian, strategic director for the charity LGBT Youth North West, Amelia Lee, said that this proposal is ‘about saving lives’.
“Despite the laws that claim to protect gay people from homophobic bullying, the truth is that, in schools especially, bullying is still incredibly common and causes young people to feel isolated and alienated, which often leads to truanting and, in the worst-case scenarios, to suicide,” said Lee.
She added that, in the absence of the correct education and inclusion measures being rolled out in schools everywhere, an exclusively LGBT school is the only solution for now.
“We can either hope every school is going to be inclusive, or we can recognise we are not there yet and so, for the moment, we need more specialised schools,” she said.
With so many parents coming out in support of their LGBT children, from printing birth retractions to campaigning for awareness, this sounds like a step in the right direction.
