Where Are the Civil Rights for Gay and Lbian Teachers? on JSTOR

Contents:

• GAY TEACHER: GERRY CRANE’S STORY
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS BYRON CENTER, MI
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS BYRON CENTER, MI

GAY TEACHER: GERRY CRANE’S STORY

Twenty-five years ago, Byron Center teacher Gerry Crane beme the foc of anti-gay sentiments and ultimately driven out of his job after was disvered he was gay. Somehow, someone got the nam of the stunts his class and sent them a packet of flammatory and false rmatn, as well as a vio of a gay pri para. The school board held four meetgs durg which people ma false claims about gay people.

“They said that simply beg homosexual ma you an improper role mol for stunts, ” Yared said. “All he ever wanted to do was teach, not bee a gay activist. When the ongog story of gay mic teacher Gerry Crane was the media back 1995, had a chillg effect on gays and lbians Wt Michigan.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS BYRON CENTER, MI

Nearly two s later, many Michigan school districts and beyond, gay teachers rema at risk, which is largely why a Grand Rapids attorney is wrg a book about Gerry Crane tled, “Gay Teacher, A Story About Love, Hate & Lsons Yet to be Learned.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS BYRON CENTER, MI

School board meetgs were held that fall and the board issued a pronouncement that beg both gay and a teacher were not patible.

In addn, notic about Crane beg a gay teacher the school district were put on r wdshields parked outsi Byron Center church parkg lots on Sunday. The vio clud scen of men dancg at a gay pri event. “The film and book highlighted the extreme; the book highlighted extreme pictur, false rmatn and myths about gay people.

It basilly said, ‘This is what gay people are all about and you don’t want gay people around your kids, '” said Yared. And of urse some of those stunts were also gay and stgglg wh their own sexualy. It also had a huge impact on other gay teachers.