The new chief executive of LGBT activist group, Stonewall, has called for preschool children to be taught to ‘celebrate’ being gay as part of a proposed Government-funded campaign to tackle ‘homophobia’ in schools. Ruth Hunt said she wanted Stonewall to commission a series of books ‘celebrating difference in all its forms’ to encourage under-fives to ‘think about different families’, including same-sex households. ‘I think the next step is about going into preschools,’ she said. ‘I know from all my godchildren that the quality of children’s books depicting difference is dire.’ She added: ‘I really want to commission – and this is something we’ve got to talk about as an organisation – a suite of books that celebrates difference in all its forms for under-fives, with different families in it but also mixed-race people and sent into every preschool setting. That will take time too. But that is possibly one of the most radical campaigns we could do.’