The people who helped feat the Briggs Iniative told Insir they fear a recent rise anti-gay rhetoric means history may be repeatg self.
Contents:
- BEG AN OPENLY GAY TEACHER
- GAY TEACHER JAILED FOR AFFAIR WH MALE PUPIL
- BEG GAY AT SCHOOL REMAS DIFFICULT FOR TEACHERS
- CALIFORNIA TRIED TO BAN GAY TEACHERS 1978. EDUTORS AND ACTIVISTS WHO FOUGHT BACK FEAR HISTORY MAY BE REPEATG SELF.
- IN A DEEP-RED FLORIDA COUNTY, THIS GAY TEACHER QU TO SAVE HER CAREER
BEG AN OPENLY GAY TEACHER
What are the reali of beg an openly gay teacher? New guil published by the Natnal Associatn of Head Teachers outle the support LGB+ and transgenr teachers should expect om their schools. * gay teachers uk *
Image source, Tham Valley PoliceImage ptn, Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Mart were both sgle and vulnerableBoth Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Mart were relig, sgle and whout Farquhar retired as Stowe School's head of English 2004 and was ved to be a gut lecturer at the Universy of Buckgham, where he met stunt the urt se, the jury heard how Mr Farquhar had a wi circle of iends but he was lonely and, as a gay man, he stggled wh his sexualy, regardg as patible wh his Anglin fah.
A brilliant schoolteacher who had a gay affair wh a teenage pupil has been jailed for a year for abg his Le Brocq's promisg reer li tattersas he began his prison 30-year-old drama teacher had enjoyed a prolonged relatnship wh Karl Donaldson, wh Karl's mother's knowledge but the schoolmaster nied when jurors failed to reach a verdict at trial October 2006, a h jury of four men and eight women nvicted him at a retrial May this year. Most famoly the UK, this harmful rhetoric was prent Sectn 28 the 1988 Lol Government Act which stated, ‘a lol thory shall not … promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy’ (Department of Edutn and Science.
For example, Lee (2019) found that LGB teachers who tght unr Sectn 28 are ls likely to tervene homophobic bullyg. More specifilly, post Equaly Act 2010 the UK ernment troduced homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic anti-bullyg strategi and polici to schools. Inty is an anizg element (du Gay, 2007), that allows teachers to make sense of themselv relatn to their profsn (MacLure, 1993; Bechamp and Thomas, 2009).
GAY TEACHER JAILED FOR AFFAIR WH MALE PUPIL
A brilliant schoolteacher who had a gay affair wh a teenage pupil has been jailed for a year for abg his posn. David Le Brocq's promisg reer li tatters as he began his prison sentence * gay teachers uk *
Lbian gay and bisexual teacher inty. Alsup, however, do not explore the lived experienc of lbian, gay or bisexual teachers. Recent rearch by Rudoe (2018) furthers the ias by acknowledgg that many lbian and gay teachers have bee more fortable beg open wh their lleagu about their sexual inty, but not wh their stunts.
BEG GAY AT SCHOOL REMAS DIFFICULT FOR TEACHERS
Whilst protected by equaly laws, lbian gay and bisexual (LGB) teachers have varyg experienc wh Uned Kgdom schools. Schools are predomantly heteronormative, moreover LGB has been posned as nflict wh disurs of childhood nocence. However, recently there is more expectatn of cln of diverse genr and sexuali. Although how this is enacted is nsistent wh and between schools. By drawg on terview data nducted 2020, this rearch analys the experienc of LGB teachers. Moreover, brgs together two bodi of lerature that do not often speak to each other—rearch that explor teacher inty and rearch that centers LGB teacher inty. Fdgs suggt there are monali between the bodi of rearch, for stance around the importance of ‘beg yourself’ and of teachers’ past experienc. However, there is special signifince for LGB teachers whose inti have historilly been nied schools, bee of their sexual inty. In addn, there is the expectatn unr neoliberalism of dividuals actng cln. As such, the LGB teacher may bee a pedagogil rource. None of this is equally available, although marketized notns of diversy place rponsibily onto the dividual. In their actns, the LGB teacher inty is always profsnal, personal and polil. * gay teachers uk *
Furthermore, acknowledg that inty is an anizg tegory, through s discursive nstctn (du Gay, 2007).
CALIFORNIA TRIED TO BAN GAY TEACHERS 1978. EDUTORS AND ACTIVISTS WHO FOUGHT BACK FEAR HISTORY MAY BE REPEATG SELF.
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The majory of the participants also intified as gay or lbian, wh a small number as bisexual, or queer2. Furthermore, was evint om the terviews that the participants uld be read as largely homonormative (Duggan, 2002). There was largely homogeney around race and ethnicy, wh the vast majory of participants beg whe Brish or Irish.
‘The kids were like, ‘oh, wow, wow, ’ you know, and then I'll be hont wh you like a lot of the kids kd of turned agast me … I would get ments like ‘fuck off, you lbian’ … so I went there [to the headteacher] and I basilly told her what happened and all she said to me was, ‘have you told them you're gay’ and I looked at her and I went, ‘do that matter’ and she said, ‘if you're gonna broadst that, then obvly you're gog to have to expect that’.
IN A DEEP-RED FLORIDA COUNTY, THIS GAY TEACHER QU TO SAVE HER CAREER
” Th, monstratg the pernic power of disurs of sexualy and schoolg – moreover, is possible that bisexualy may have a more prer stat than homosexualy. I feel ’s even more important bee I’m Indian and gay and so for me to shy away om that would be trimental to the overall kd of growth of people school who intify wh me on eher of those thgs. If a staff member feels fortable to be themselv and not to be embarrassed by the fact that they are gay, nrodiverse or whatever happens to be, then obvly that has a posive effect on the children.
For Cathere, “I always feel that there is somethg, a barrier between me and the kids … and then I feel guilty for any kids who are gay or LGBTQ. Inty formatn general is often seen as havg a relatnship to time (du Gay, 2007). This clud verbal sults—“So, I suffered wh que a lot of homophobic bullyg at school.