School principal comes out to his students as gay via online assembly
The Times yesterday.Related: Oklahoma school expels 8-year-old for having same-sex crush on friendHe said he’d been inspired to talk publicly about his sexuality, and of his marriage to husband, Alberic Elsom, after hearing one of his students discussing their own sexuality.“Not long ago I was doing interviews with the pupils, and one of them was talking about how comfortable he was about being gay,” Hewlett said.“I was so blown away by the courage of him that something flipped in my head.
I thought then of my own situation and thought: ‘This is ridiculous.’“Here I am as a happily married gay man, and the children do not know that at school.Hewlett married Elsom, a music teacher at another south London school, in 2014.“My only regret is not.
