An Obituary For 'Educate and Celebrate'

On the demise of a charity

Jordan Gray (right) at a school event for Educate and Celebrate

“Educate and Celebrate,” the LGBT-youth charity founded by a music teacher named Elly Barnes, ceased operating in January. The organization was in its 14th year of existence.

Although no cause of death has been announced, the charity reportedly experienced a drastic loss of funding after an infamous TV stunt by one of its foremost public advocates.

“Oh how we didn’t laugh,” producer Malcolm Clark writes of the moment in November 2022 when ‘trans influencer’ Jordan Gray stripped naked on the British television show Friday Night Live and banged a keyboard with his penis.

“The problem was that Gray wasn’t just any old flasher. He was also a patron of Educate and Celebrate,” Clark explains. “Patrons of a charity are generally expected to conduct themselves in public with the highest standards — not get their knob out for laughs on national TV.”

Under public pressure, the organization “removed Jordan Gray as a patron” the week a…