The Bt Gay-Friendly Schools

Contents:

• THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS
• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS

THE BT GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS

”Many LGBTQ stunts report that a support system or an ally—whether a fay member, iend, teacher or guidance unselor—is often valuable helpg them navigate their school, pecially given the negative impacts LGBTQ stunts n fact, the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) reports their 2017 Natnal School Climate Survey that negative school environments where stunts experience victimizatn and discrimatn bee of their genr or sexualy n adversely affect them. ”El also noted that, while they live Massachetts and their school’s curriculum is not affected by "no promo homo" laws, which prohib teachers om discsg LGBTQ issu, the state's specifilly clive curriculum n vary between teacher to teacher, and those who tght ma them feel validated. Florida recently (March 28, 2022) passed the famo “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which prohibs stctn about gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (GLBTQ) people until the fourth gra and other stat are followg su.

AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS

Here are six reasons why “don’t say gay” bills are wrong and why we need LGBTQ-clive tn at all gra levels.

This n also protect them om later engagg dangero behavrs that rult om homophobia cludg dg and alhol abe, skippg school, and self-harm. When Daniel Hurewz thks back to his experience of g out as gay as a Harvard Universy stunt the 1980s, he mostly remembers the multu of novels he read about gay life, while hidg the basement of the school library. “When I was llege, if a teacher had talked about someone beg gay the past would have been dramatic bee nobody was talkg about gay people at all, ” said Hurewz.

The Mm of the Cy of New York’s Activist New York exhibn, currently on view, has sectns on Trans Activism and Gay Rights.

This acceptance ns sharp ntrast to three s ago, when a group of New York Cy teachers and admistrators created “Children of the Rabow, ” a 300-pl page curriculum that clud a remendatn that teachers clu referenc to gay and lbian people. An iologil battle ensued, wh one school board member llg the curriculum “dangeroly misleadg lbian/homosexual propaganda. Compared to stunts schools whout such a curriculum, those schools wh the clive curriculum were signifintly ls likely to hear homophobic remarks or miss school and more likely to perform better amilly acrdg to 2019 rearch.

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. ”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978. ” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe.

” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy. At my school, the very place that I first observed queer cursy, I was sred to e out, fearg my own physil and emotnal wasn’t jt the school locker room where I heard homophobic remarks. What happens to a black gay Christian who liv a hoehold that hat him; who really believed that he was gog to Hell.

Perhaps was the support of iends, nts, and those around me that ma me not want to feel ashamed about myself anymore, even if that meant God damng me to the begng of senr year, I went om “I’m gay” to whoever asked, to “Can you stop sayg faggot please? A month later, I cid to no longer participate the mentorship program, and every time I was asked why, I ma exc about beg too time, I retreated to my fantasy world, where I was not sixteen and gay a homophobic environment, but a world where I was olr, the future, when I would arrive to a betiful home om a long day at work, and be weled by a hband who lov me and bears my burns on his shoulrs. I was thrilled to be leavg and movg on, but I uld see that many of my fellow graduat were facg siar hurdl, on that I had enuntered, and had only masked their tth wh homophobia.

For a long time, LGBTQ+ teens haven't been able to see their experienc movi, but that's to films like th, gay, trans, queer, bi, and lbian teens across the globe n see stori like theirs told. In this ndy-lored edy om director Darren Ste (Jawbreaker), an out gay kid is fought over by the high school queen be, each of whom wants him as their "gay bt iend. " The Uned Stat of Tara's Michael Willett stars wh Pl Iano as his geeky gay buddy, wh a fun meo by Megan Mullally as a much too gay-iendly mom.