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• GUIDANCE UNSELOR ‘HELD HERSELF OUT AS MISTER’: FERAL APPEALS URT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR FIRG GAY EMPLOYEE
• SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• RON DESANTIS CAN'T HELP HIMSELF, LNCH INQUIRY INTO BUD LIGHT FOR AD WH TRANS ACTRSIF YOU THOUGHT DISNEY WAS ENOUGH TO OCCUPY THE FLORIDA ERNOR, PLEASE THK AGA.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 21, 2023RON DESANTIS MPAIGNS ANKENY, IOWA JULY 15.STT OLSON/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS IS A BULLY. AND LIKE MANY BULLI, ALL THE BLTER AND CHT-PUFFG MOSTLY SERV TO BETRAY HIS OWN GLARG AQUACY—NAMELY, THAT HE’S AN ABSURD WEIRDO WHOSE AMBNS FAR EXCEED HIS APTUS. CASE POT: THE FLORIDA ERNOR’S THREAT TO BEG AN “QUIRY” TO BUD LIGHT’S QUICKLY-ABANDONED MARKETG MPAIGN FEATURG TRANSGENR SOCIAL MEDIA STAR DYLAN MULVANEY.“WE BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE BALL LIKE THAT, YOU’RE NOT FOLLOWG YOUR FIDUCIARY DUTY,” DESANTIS TOLD FOX NEWS’ JSE WATTERS THURSDAY EVENG, ANNOUNCG PLANS TO VTIGATE THE BEER BRAND’S PARENT PANY, AB INBEV. “IT ULD BE SOMETHG THAT LEADS TO A RIVATIVE LAWSU FILED ON BEHALF OF THE SHAREHOLRS OF THE FLORIDA PENSN FUND, BEE AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE’S GOTTA BE PENALTI FOR WHEN YOU PUT BS ASI TO FOC ON YOUR SOCIAL AGENDA AT THE EXPENSE OF HARDWORKG PEOPLE.”TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE IA—WHICH DESANTIS ALSO RAISED A LETTER THURSDAY TO FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF ADMISTRATN—IS SO PATENTLY STUPID THAT BARELY SERV A FULL REUNTG. SO THE GIST IS THIS: BACK APRIL, BUD LIGHT PARTNERED WH MULVANEY FOR A MARKETG MPAIGN, WHICH QUICKLY ABANDONED AFTER NSERVATIV THREW A TANTM. DPE THROWG MULVANEY UNR THE B, BUD LIGHT HAS NTUED TO SUFFER THE WRATH OF THE RIGHT, AND HAS STGGLED TO REGA S SAL NUMBERS. ACRDG TO DESANTIS, THAT DIP SAL—WHICH NSERVATIV THEMSELV BROUGHT ABOUT—MAY MEAN THE PANY “BREACHED LEGAL DUTI OWED TO S SHAREHOLRS.”“ALL OPTNS ARE ON THE TABLE,” DESANTIS WROTE, ACCG THE PANY OF “VIRTUE SIGNALG.”IF THIS IDTIC “QUIRY” TO THE BEER PANY SOUNDS FAIAR, ’S PERHAPS BEE TEXAS SENATOR TED CZ—A FAILED GOP PRINTIAL NDIDATE WHOSE RANKS DESANTIS SEEMS POISED TO JO—ALREADY ANNOUNCED A PROBE OF HIS OWN TO THIS MATTER OF GRAVE NATNAL IMPORT BACK MAY. SO NOT ONLY IS THIS PERFORMANCE BY DESANTIS STUPID; ’S ALSO UNORIGAL.WHICH ISN’T SURPRISG: MUCH OF DESANTIS’S ACT IS BORROWED OM DONALD TMP. AND EVEN ONE OF HIS MOST HIGH-PROFILE STUNTS—SENDG MIGRANTS TO BLUE ENCLAV (I.E., G HUMAN BEGS AS PAWNS TO PROTT JOE BIN’S BORR POLICI)—WAS CRIBBED OM THE GREG ABBOTT PLAYBOOK. DESANTIS’S TRANSFORMATN OF FLORIDA TO A PETRI DISH OF FAR-RIGHT POLICY MAY HAVE MA HIM A NATNAL FIGURE. BUT THAT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO MAKE UP FOR HIS SIGNIFINT FICIENCI AS A NATNAL NDIDATE—CLUDG, BUT NOT LIMED TO, HIS LACK OF ANYTHG APPROXIMATG PERSONALY OR CHARISMA.THAT’S LEFT HIM WH NOTHG BUT CULTURE WAR. IT MAY PLAY WH ANY MEMBERS OF THE VERY-ONLE RIGHT STILL THKG ABOUT BUD LIGHT, BUT IS MORE LIKELY TO NFE ANYONE WHO LOGGED OFF OM THIS ANE NTROVERSY MONTHS AGO. PERHAPS WILL EVEN IRK REPUBLINS WHO DON’T LIKE THE IA OF ERNMENT TRYG TO EXERT NTROL OVER RPORATNS’ AD MPAIGNS, OR AT LEAST THOSE WHO WOULD PREFER THEIR PARTY LEARS FOC ON SOMETHG OTHER THAN PISSG NTTS WH BUD LIGHT AND DISNEY, THE LATTER OF WHICH DESANTIS HAS BEEN FDG WH FOR MORE THAN A YEAR OVER S THEN-CEO’S RELUCTANT, D-CRICISM OF FLORIDA’S HIO “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW.BETWEEN THAT DISNEY DT-UP AND HIS PRINTIAL BID, MAY BE HARD FOR DESANTIS TO FD THE TIME TO BATTLE BUD LIGHT. BUT ’S POSSIBLE HIS SCHLE ULD BE EEG UP PRETTY SOON, BASED ON RECENT REPORTS OUT OF HIS FLOUNRG RACE FOR THE GOP NOD: “THE ENTIRE MPAIGN IS ON THE BRK,” A SOURCE FAIAR WH THE MATTER TOLD NBC NEWS AFTER DESANTIS FIRED ABOUT A DOZEN STAFFERS THIS WEEK. “I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHG LIKE .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRPHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE ON HER “SURREAL” JOURNEY FROM FLEABAG TO INDIANA JONTHE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINERIC LUTZ
• 15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY
• DPE SUPREME COURT LG, YOU N STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY, TRANSGENR | WEBB
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• TEACHER: I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY. NOW IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE
• EQUALY BILL: WHY YOU N STILL BE FIRED US FOR BEG GAY
• POT OF VIEW: Y, MANY STAT, PEOPLE N STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY
• CAN AN EMPLOYEE BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR?
• IT'S LEGAL TO BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY.

GUIDANCE UNSELOR ‘HELD HERSELF OUT AS MISTER’: FERAL APPEALS URT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR FIRG GAY EMPLOYEE

Supreme Court led 2020 that firg someone “merely for beg gay or transgenr” is illegal as sex-based discrimatn unr Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Supreme Court said Monday that workers nnot be fired for beg gay or transgenr, a blockbter lg for LGBT historic 6-3 cisn was wrten by Jtice Neil Gorsuch, a nservative appoted by Donald Tmp.

SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR

"An dividual's homosexualy or transgenr stat is not relevant to employment cisns, " Gorsuch wrote the cisn, which applied to three separate s. "That's bee is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex. The s were brought by three workers who said they were fired om their jobs bee they were gay or transgenr.

" Bostock was fired om his job as a child welfare servic ordator 2013 after jog a gay softball league.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

"Apple CEO Tim Cook, the first Fortune 500 chief executive to e out as gay, tweeted that he was grateful for the lg. Gorsuch wrote that discrimatg agast an employee bee they are gay or transgenr is by fn discrimatn on the basis of sex. "We no longer live a society where a Gay uple n be married on Friday and fired for that marriage on Monday.

"Gregory Antollo, an attorney for Zarda, untered that "Don Zarda was a gay man who work skydivg were close ntact is required. "I thk the first rponse is the bt, bee reveals discrimatn – that Don Zarda said he was gay. WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman.

RON DESANTIS CAN'T HELP HIMSELF, LNCH INQUIRY INTO BUD LIGHT FOR AD WH TRANS ACTRSIF YOU THOUGHT DISNEY WAS ENOUGH TO OCCUPY THE FLORIDA ERNOR, PLEASE THK AGA.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 21, 2023RON DESANTIS MPAIGNS ANKENY, IOWA JULY 15.STT OLSON/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS IS A BULLY. AND LIKE MANY BULLI, ALL THE BLTER AND CHT-PUFFG MOSTLY SERV TO BETRAY HIS OWN GLARG AQUACY—NAMELY, THAT HE’S AN ABSURD WEIRDO WHOSE AMBNS FAR EXCEED HIS APTUS. CASE POT: THE FLORIDA ERNOR’S THREAT TO BEG AN “QUIRY” TO BUD LIGHT’S QUICKLY-ABANDONED MARKETG MPAIGN FEATURG TRANSGENR SOCIAL MEDIA STAR DYLAN MULVANEY.“WE BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE BALL LIKE THAT, YOU’RE NOT FOLLOWG YOUR FIDUCIARY DUTY,” DESANTIS TOLD FOX NEWS’ JSE WATTERS THURSDAY EVENG, ANNOUNCG PLANS TO VTIGATE THE BEER BRAND’S PARENT PANY, AB INBEV. “IT ULD BE SOMETHG THAT LEADS TO A RIVATIVE LAWSU FILED ON BEHALF OF THE SHAREHOLRS OF THE FLORIDA PENSN FUND, BEE AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE’S GOTTA BE PENALTI FOR WHEN YOU PUT BS ASI TO FOC ON YOUR SOCIAL AGENDA AT THE EXPENSE OF HARDWORKG PEOPLE.”TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE IA—WHICH DESANTIS ALSO RAISED A LETTER THURSDAY TO FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF ADMISTRATN—IS SO PATENTLY STUPID THAT BARELY SERV A FULL REUNTG. SO THE GIST IS THIS: BACK APRIL, BUD LIGHT PARTNERED WH MULVANEY FOR A MARKETG MPAIGN, WHICH QUICKLY ABANDONED AFTER NSERVATIV THREW A TANTM. DPE THROWG MULVANEY UNR THE B, BUD LIGHT HAS NTUED TO SUFFER THE WRATH OF THE RIGHT, AND HAS STGGLED TO REGA S SAL NUMBERS. ACRDG TO DESANTIS, THAT DIP SAL—WHICH NSERVATIV THEMSELV BROUGHT ABOUT—MAY MEAN THE PANY “BREACHED LEGAL DUTI OWED TO S SHAREHOLRS.”“ALL OPTNS ARE ON THE TABLE,” DESANTIS WROTE, ACCG THE PANY OF “VIRTUE SIGNALG.”IF THIS IDTIC “QUIRY” TO THE BEER PANY SOUNDS FAIAR, ’S PERHAPS BEE TEXAS SENATOR TED CZ—A FAILED GOP PRINTIAL NDIDATE WHOSE RANKS DESANTIS SEEMS POISED TO JO—ALREADY ANNOUNCED A PROBE OF HIS OWN TO THIS MATTER OF GRAVE NATNAL IMPORT BACK MAY. SO NOT ONLY IS THIS PERFORMANCE BY DESANTIS STUPID; ’S ALSO UNORIGAL.WHICH ISN’T SURPRISG: MUCH OF DESANTIS’S ACT IS BORROWED OM DONALD TMP. AND EVEN ONE OF HIS MOST HIGH-PROFILE STUNTS—SENDG MIGRANTS TO BLUE ENCLAV (I.E., G HUMAN BEGS AS PAWNS TO PROTT JOE BIN’S BORR POLICI)—WAS CRIBBED OM THE GREG ABBOTT PLAYBOOK. DESANTIS’S TRANSFORMATN OF FLORIDA TO A PETRI DISH OF FAR-RIGHT POLICY MAY HAVE MA HIM A NATNAL FIGURE. BUT THAT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO MAKE UP FOR HIS SIGNIFINT FICIENCI AS A NATNAL NDIDATE—CLUDG, BUT NOT LIMED TO, HIS LACK OF ANYTHG APPROXIMATG PERSONALY OR CHARISMA.THAT’S LEFT HIM WH NOTHG BUT CULTURE WAR. IT MAY PLAY WH ANY MEMBERS OF THE VERY-ONLE RIGHT STILL THKG ABOUT BUD LIGHT, BUT IS MORE LIKELY TO NFE ANYONE WHO LOGGED OFF OM THIS ANE NTROVERSY MONTHS AGO. PERHAPS WILL EVEN IRK REPUBLINS WHO DON’T LIKE THE IA OF ERNMENT TRYG TO EXERT NTROL OVER RPORATNS’ AD MPAIGNS, OR AT LEAST THOSE WHO WOULD PREFER THEIR PARTY LEARS FOC ON SOMETHG OTHER THAN PISSG NTTS WH BUD LIGHT AND DISNEY, THE LATTER OF WHICH DESANTIS HAS BEEN FDG WH FOR MORE THAN A YEAR OVER S THEN-CEO’S RELUCTANT, D-CRICISM OF FLORIDA’S HIO “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW.BETWEEN THAT DISNEY DT-UP AND HIS PRINTIAL BID, MAY BE HARD FOR DESANTIS TO FD THE TIME TO BATTLE BUD LIGHT. BUT ’S POSSIBLE HIS SCHLE ULD BE EEG UP PRETTY SOON, BASED ON RECENT REPORTS OUT OF HIS FLOUNRG RACE FOR THE GOP NOD: “THE ENTIRE MPAIGN IS ON THE BRK,” A SOURCE FAIAR WH THE MATTER TOLD NBC NEWS AFTER DESANTIS FIRED ABOUT A DOZEN STAFFERS THIS WEEK. “I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHG LIKE .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRPHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE ON HER “SURREAL” JOURNEY FROM FLEABAG TO INDIANA JONTHE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINERIC LUTZ

Perhaps will even irk Republins who don’t like the ia of ernment tryg to exert ntrol over rporatns’ ad mpaigns, or at least those who would prefer their party lears foc on somethg other than pissg ntts wh Bud Light and Disney, the latter of which DeSantis has been fdg wh for more than a year over s then-CEO’s reluctant, d-cricism of Florida’s hio “Don’t Say Gay” law. While preparg for a jump, Don told a female ctomer that he was gay an effort to make her more fortable wh how close they were physilly. The third se was brought by Gerald Bostock, who was fired om his job as a social worker for at-risk youth after his employer learned he was gay.

15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY

All three workers sued, assertg that was sex discrimatn to fire them for beg gay or transgenr.

DPE SUPREME COURT LG, YOU N STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY, TRANSGENR | WEBB

The Supreme Court agreed, holdg that “An employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex. Supreme Court led on Monday that the Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ dividuals om beg fired due to their sexual orientatn or genr inty, felt like an alien visor om a nicer, alternate vote me down 6-3, wh Tmp appotee Neil Gorsuch penng the majory Court grants feral job protectns to gay, lbian, transgenr workersHuge problems still persist. Dependg on where you work, you n still get fired for beg gay or U.

Any lg, though, uld easily apply to LGBTQ 2019, two Indianapolis-area Catholic schools each fired a teacher for beg gay. McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized.

He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

It was bil and ugly, filled wh “every gay slur you uld thk of, ” Bach said. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport.

McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay. ”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry.

As a multisport athlete, Bach was often locker rooms filled wh chos of homophobic slurs and gay jok. ’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed.

TEACHER: I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY. NOW IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE

He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one. “I was sually like, ‘You know I’m gay, right? That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac.

“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room.

EQUALY BILL: WHY YOU N STILL BE FIRED US FOR BEG GAY

Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy. Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done.

POT OF VIEW: Y, MANY STAT, PEOPLE N STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY

The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.

“Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth. McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely. Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U.

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. “The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.

CAN AN EMPLOYEE BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR?

There may not yet be te equaly this untry, but we are equal on paper for the very first I was born 1964, Illois was the only state that did not have an anti-sodomy law that crimalized gay relatnships. As a stunt, I never heard a teacher say a posive thg about lbian, bisexual, gay, or transgenr people.

I’m probably alive today bee of I told my mother I was gog to be a teacher she said, “You are gay. Gay teachers.

IT'S LEGAL TO BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY.

Shortly after I beme the Oregon State Teacher of the Year 2014, I was fired for not beg able to keep my mouth shut after my school warned me not to say public that I was gay. As a gay man, I n make the life of Ls, Gs, Bs, and Ts better by havg a picture of my fay on my sk.