Shakeel Afsar was back outside Anderton Park Primary School (Picture: PA)

Anti-LGBT protesters were drowned out by a ‘loving resistance’ musical counter-protest when they returned to a Birmingham school.

Around 20 campaigners demonstrated near Anderton Park School, in Sparkhill, yesterday.

They were complaining about lessons where pupils learn about gay relationships and LGBT rights.

But this time they were met with resistance from gay mother Katy Rose Bennett, a local resident, and her friends who sang defiant songs of love, including A Beautiful World and Over the Rainbow.


Musician Ms Bennett said she decided to act after having to put up with protests at the school gates since January.

She said: ‘We believe in love and harmony and everyone getting along and being equal. Love conquers hate.’

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A counter-protest was led by a local gay mum (Picture: BPM)

Resident Philip Coker added: ‘Their children are the future, but they just do not want them to have a future that is different from theirs.



‘They are giving their children a terrible message.’

Lead protester Mr Afsar said they returned because he didn’t want the school to think they had gone away.

He said: ‘We will not back down. Parents want us to continue to press for the school to heed their request, consult with parents and stop going against their wishes.’

Protesters demonstrating against the lessons about gay relationships and LGBT rights at the Anderton Park Primary School in May (Picture: PA)

Fellow protester Amir Ahmed added: ‘They say this is about equality and tolerance. There are other ways to teach equality – this is a sexual and gender ideology.’

Birmingham City Council will again request a permanent injunction around the school to ban protests at the gates when it goes to court on October 14.

A temporary injunction, imposed in June, bans Mr Afsar and other protest leaders from organising a demonstration or abusing school employees inside an exclusion zone.

Anderton Park School was targeted along with Parkfield School in Alum Rock.

Anti-LGBT protesters started their demonstrations in March.

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