The principal of an exclusive private school plans to make history in the UK by coming out as gay during an online event.
Nicholas Hewlett, the head of the St. Dunstan’s $ 25,000 a year college in Catford, south-east London, told the Sunday Times of London that he plans to discuss his sexuality and marriage with another teacher during a meeting on Monday.
This is likely to be the first time a principal has come out in front of his pupils and staff in the UK, the newspaper said.
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Hewlett, 41, said he was inspired by a student who recently discussed how comfortable they are with being gay.
“I was so taken aback by his courage that something threw into my head,” he told the British newspaper.
“I thought about my own situation and thought, ‘This is ridiculous. ‘Here I am as a happily married gay man, and the children do not know it at school.
“There will be children who struggle with their own sexuality and who benefit from knowing that you can be happy and gay, and I have a privileged position to show it to them.
“I felt I owed it to the pupils to be open and courageous too. I was inspired by them,” he told the UK Times.
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Hewlett announced the “astronomically different times” and remarked that not too long ago “it would have been virtually impossible for me to have a [principal]. “
” One forgets how fast things go – the difference is astonishing, ” he said, noting that there are still ‘very, very few openly gay’ principals in the country.
He expects to be emotional, especially when he discusses his marriage to Alberic Elsom, the music director of the independent Whitgift school in nearby Croydon, in a civil ceremony in 2014.
“I’m glad I’m coming out in an online meeting. If I deliver it from the stage, know who or I might be crying,” he told the UK Times.