Gay-Straight Allianc, Inclive Policy, and School Climate: LGBTQ Youths’ Experienc of Social Support and Bullyg - PMC

Contents:

• REMEMBER HOW DH D’SOUZA OUTED GAY CLASSMAT—AND THOUGHT IT WAS AWOME?
• DLERS, DID YOU KNOW OF ANY GAY AND OUT CLASSMAT HIGH SCHOOL?
• GAY MAYFIELD:  
• GAY TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE OUT TO TEAM AND STARTS A GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE
• IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC, INCLIVE POLICY, AND SCHOOL CLIMATE: LGBTQ YOUTHS’ EXPERIENC OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AND BULLYG
• A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL

REMEMBER HOW DH D’SOUZA OUTED GAY CLASSMAT—AND THOUGHT IT WAS AWOME?

They fumble around, don’t know how to rpond when a stunt don’t e a “him” or “her” pronoun, or they don’t nont anti-gay bullyg. Durant has already mted to visg her school’s gay straight alliance club to let stunts know who she is and learn who they are. “Sayg [to a teenager] that I don’t re if you’re gay or straight or trans, ’s almost like when people say ‘I don’t see lor, ’” she said, ’s dismissg them stead of “validatg and seeg them.

Steve Clark Hall, a gay graduate om the class of 1975, said he knew gay classmat who were kicked out of the Amy and uld not return home to the fai who disowned them.

“It is obv to me that the real problem is not homosexualy, but rather, the ary’s open and officially supported prejudice agast homosexuals who have the sire and pabily to serve their untry. While this was seen as progrs at the time, Hall poted out how part of Clton’s platform was to allow gays, lbians, and bisexuals to openly serve the ary. The GLBT Historil Society San Francis opened a “Gays the Milary” exhib, which featured several USNA Out members on display.

DLERS, DID YOU KNOW OF ANY GAY AND OUT CLASSMAT HIGH SCHOOL?

“Now I unrstand that the numbers are higher for suici wh the ary, but beg gay and the ary fely would spike those numbers even higher. Wh theater doors bolted shut for the next…foreeable future, we’re thrilled to see some Broadway talent pop up the pilot episo of Boy•Friends, a new edy based off the My Gay Boyiend web-seri. The show centers around two llege roommat, one gay and one straight, and their “journey through llege and to adulthood to bee the homo-hetero power uple of the ag.

GAY MAYFIELD:  

In November 2019, Jordan Steffy, a junr at LaPorte High School Indiana, said a fellow classmate posted a homophobic msage about him on Snapchat. "He told me that I was termated bee of my sexual orientatn and that they n't have someone that intifi as gay a learship posn, " Taylor told Insir.

When Seth Owen, a high school valedictorian, was kicked out of his home for beg gay, he was worried he wouldn't be able to go to llege — until his teachers stepped . But at home, his relig parents found out that he was gay and told him to move he applied to his dream school, Geetown Universy, the school gave him a fancial aid package that was based on his parents' e even though he was not livg wh them.

"I would tell that sophomore kid to hold their head high, roll their shoulrs back and be exactly who they are, " Owen told NBC News. It worked, and Roberts was elected to the cy uncil and beme one of the youngt openly gay elected officials the untry. A lawyer for the school nied the speech was blocked bee Young was gog to e out as gay, but bee he "didn't munite wh school admistrators and his parents and ed appropriate humor , " the Coloradoan LGBTQ advocy group named Out Boulr jumped and offered Young a safe space to give his valedictorian speech.

GAY TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE OUT TO TEAM AND STARTS A GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE

Durg the past school year, two different people told me they cid to bee teachers part bee they hoped to support LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer/qutng) stunts.

The Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network's (GLSEN) biennial Natnal School Climate Survey revealed that "the safe space mpaign, like enumerated antibullyg polici, mak a tremendo difference LGBTQ stunts' perceptns that their schools are safe and that their teachers are adults they n tst. He…also gloated over an famo Review article that had outed members of Dartmouth’s Gay Stunt Associatn and published excerpts of letters wrten by the group’s members. ) He and his surroundg alyt also gloated over an famo Review article that had outed members of Dartmouth’s Gay Stunt Associatn and published excerpts of letters wrten by the group’s members.

Ne years later, when D’Souza was beg hailed upon the publitn of his book, Illiberal Edutn: The Polics of Race and Sex on Camp—the Washgton Post lled him “palpably smart, ” “sober-md, ” and a “gentleman”—I wrote a short piece The Natn and relled that I had once wnsed him boastg about improperly purlog documents for the gay-namg article. D’Souza cried foul, claimg that the Review had not ed any unrhand means to ga accs to rmatn about the members of the Gay Stunt Associatn.

IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?

In his rponse to my origal article, D’Souza had mataed that the Review had only prted the nam of the officers of the Gay Stunt Associatn, and had loted this rmatn, along wh the personal letters wrten by gay stunts, publicly available rerds the group had filed wh the school admistratn. In other words, the Review had done nothg untoward to unearth the nam of the gay stunts outed; the paper had merely relied on public rmatn submted by the group self. (Put asi, for the sake of this tale, the proby—or mean-spiredns—of outg a fellow stunt whose sexual orientatn might not be known beyond the mp gay muny.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC, INCLIVE POLICY, AND SCHOOL CLIMATE: LGBTQ YOUTHS’ EXPERIENC OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AND BULLYG

As the New York Tim reported at the time, “One [gay] stunt named [by the Review], acrdg to his iends, beme severely prsed and talked repeatedly of suici.

A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL

The grandfather of another who had not found the urage to tell his fay of his homosexualy learned about his grandson when he got his py of the Review the mail. At first, I took D’Souza at this word, acceptg his acunt that the Review had ed public rmatn for s article namg the officers of the Gay Stunt Associatn, and nveyed that the rrectn. ” And there was this: She poted out that shortly before the Review published s article namg the gay stunts, some documents had disappeared om the GSA’s sk a stunt center.

But relishg the outg of gay stunts (and at that luncheon there was much relishg) and engagg dirty tricks to obta those nam—well, that speaks not to iology, but character. 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.