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Contents:
- ‘I DON’T BLAME ANY TEACHER FOR NOT G OUT AS GAY’
- GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE
- COMG OUT CLASS: WHEN TEACHERS TELL STUNTS "I'M GAY"
- ‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT
- ONE OF MY STUNTS US ANTI-GAY SLURS AROUND ME
‘I DON’T BLAME ANY TEACHER FOR NOT G OUT AS GAY’
Durg Kristal Torr’s sophomore year of high school, she transferred om an all-girls Catholic school to a ed public high school. Sanford, a teacher who was openly gay. “I grew up an upper middle class, relig area Oh where didn't really feel like gay people existed.
I had iends theater who were gay, but I didn't see any exampl of what life would be like as a gay adult.
GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE
It wasn't until I was llege and had profsors who were gay that I really had any picture of what was like to be a gay adult a regular relatnship wh a fay.
COMG OUT CLASS: WHEN TEACHERS TELL STUNTS "I'M GAY"
"I didn't have a teacher who I knew intified until my sophomore year of llege. “This year I've been very openly out wh stunts, but a lot of that was motivated by my first year of teachg where I was tryg to bat issu of homophobia and transphobia.
” I did a home vis where I spoke to the mom and I remember tellg her that I was actually gay and I thk really helped her and ma her feel more relieved. “When I was workg rporate, I was out and unapologetilly gay. I sudnly thought: if he turns out to be a homophobe, this will be a problem.
‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT
Bisexual people are ls likely than gay men or lbians to be school lear scribed her ner nflict to me: “I look at others, the nfince they have, the sense of plete ease and fort, and I want to be volved.
In the wir monwealth, homosexualy has been crimalised – India and Tridad. In my own se, I had lgerg memori of hearg that homosexualy was wrong and recurrg thoughts of hell and damnatn after a childhood of church on Sundays.
ONE OF MY STUNTS US ANTI-GAY SLURS AROUND ME
And havg been ted the 80s and 90s, wh the impact of sectn 28, which barred “promotg” homosexualy, add to my ternalised homophobia. It was easier when I went to work a school where there were other openly gay teachers.