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Contents:
- ‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT
- RISHI KAPOOR TURNS GAY FOR STUDENT OF THE YEAR
- GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR FANS LGBTQ PRI IN VIRAL PHOTO WH DONALD TMP
- MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
- THE WORST DEPICTN OF GAY CHARACTERS IN BOLLYWOOD
‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT
Matthew Shepard was abducted, beaten and killed 20 years ago bee he was gay. * student of the year gay *
He spoke to Edutn Week about teachg as a gay man ral Kentucky—and why recent efforts to rtrict rights for LGBTQ stunts are dangero. I have always been as gay as anythg uld be, but my first year of teachg [upon the pletn of a master’s gree, 2010], I uldn’t be.
You will not get a teachg license if you’re openly gay. I’ve been openly gay. I'm a proud gay man, I am the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, and I'm aaid to return to the classroom.
RISHI KAPOOR TURNS GAY FOR STUDENT OF THE YEAR
After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year. * student of the year gay *
Lbian, gay, and bisexual youth are g out earlier than ever before. G., Gay-Straight Alliance).
By 2017, prcipals reported gay-straight allianc 23% of middle schools and 59% of high schools, cludg 76% of suburban high schools, 72% of urban high schools and 39% of ral high schools.
GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR FANS LGBTQ PRI IN VIRAL PHOTO WH DONALD TMP
Among stunts who intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, or “not sure” (LGBQ), about 40% reported beg bullied, 39% reported havg “serly nsired” suici, and a full 56% reported clilly signifint signs of prsn.
The legislative iativ also appear to have embolned a wave of LGBTQ+ book bans, efforts to dismantle gay-straight allianc, and the forced removal of LGBTQ+-affirmg materials om school spac. School lears n promote gay-straight allianc, which serve as a cril protective factor at tim when LGBTQ+ bullyg is on the rise. In the movie, he plays a flamboyant and lonely gay Dean of an extravagant stutn, who is love wh a straight married man, and has the privilege of makg everyone dance to his tun orr to w a veted trophy.
I’ve cid to e to terms wh Johar’s closeted homosexualy. He has been makg homosexualy to a big, fat joke, sce the bromance Kal Ho Naa Ho. While heteros are lghg at the how hilar is to be gay, I’m lghg at how ignorant they are so works out.
MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
While I’m fortable enough my own sexualy to be able to fd humor , his portrayal of gay men (and women! It will be alright for Siddharth and Van to be gay or to display affectn whout makg look like they are gay.
THE WORST DEPICTN OF GAY CHARACTERS IN BOLLYWOOD
Rishi Kapoor turns gay for STUDENT OF THE YEARBy Enkayaar, Glamsham EdorialKaran Johar seems to have cid to nstct the image of Rishi Kapoor that the Indian public has md about him- a romantic hero, and a boy next door and tell the world what a fe performer he is and the world of Hdi cema did not realize his potential. He did wh rare panache AGNEEPATH by givg him the role of a lechero Kareem Lala, which ed is gog to sweep the awards, when the annual rual of hostg them begs wh three months om STUDENT OF THE YEAR Rishi Kapoor is playg the role of a gay Dean. It would be for the first time all probabily that a mastream actor would be enactg such role the recent tim, and wh Rishi Kapoor playg the role of a gay character, one is sure to get a powerhoe of a performance.
So far, the enactment of gay characters has most of the tim had an element of sarsm and humour associated wh , but STUDENT OF THE YEAR should be able to change the was the master performer, Sanjeev Kumar who had enacted the role of a gay wh panache NAYA DIN NAYI RAAT, but there too an element of sarsm was associated wh the mannerisms that Sanjeev Kumar had enacted on the screen, pecially the dialogue- chakka, that unrled the image that a gay character has for the mon all, even one of the greatt historic texts had the character of Shkhandi , as also Arjun had played the role of a gay character Mahabharata durg the perd of hibernatn to which they had been banished. So gay characters have been a part of our historil nstct and the cematic aterny need the enactment of such a role by a nsummate performer like Rishi Kapoor to set the thgs perspective.
We have a tradn of Ardhnarishwar as well, one of the avatars of Lord Vishnu, which is also known as be, after STUDENT OF THE YEAR more such attempts to portray a gay character would be unrtaken by the mastream actors of Hdi cema.