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Contents:
- A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
- GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE
- FEATURED STORI
- SCHOOLG MY STRAIGHT PROFSOR (A STUNT TEACHER GAY SEX SCTN STORY)
- FLORIDA TEACHER UNR VTIGATN FOR SHOWG DISNEY MOVIE WH GAY CHARACTER SAYS SHE DIDN’T KNOW LGBTQ RTRICTN APPLIED TO HER CLASS
- GAY SUBSTUTE TEACHER SAYS HE WAS FIRED AFTER HANDG OUT PRI BRACELETS TO STUNTS
- ‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- THE PLIGHT OF BEG A GAY TEACHER
A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
A battle over rabow stickers at MacArthur High School Irvg, Texas, has hobbled the Gay-Straight Alliance and left LGBTQ stunts feelg unsafe. * teacher gay student *
One faculty sponsor of the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance is facg havg her ntract termated, another is preparg to rign, and a third has been removed om the classroom. Two teachers said that the school’s prcipal asked teachers to take down gay pri flags their classrooms and offic.
Several stunts said that eher they or their classmat have been lled homophobic slurs and bullied, and school staff members have failed to tervene.
GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE
Followg the enactment of what crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” law, some LGBTQ teachers have qu the profsnal altogether. * teacher gay student *
Some said they’re disuraged by the Irvg Inpennt School District’s rponse to the ncerns they’ve raised through the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) and school board meetgs, and they feel ls safe at school than they did a year ago. And advot for LGBTQ stunts are alarmed by some parents’ recent mands that schools prohib stunts om anizg Gay-Straight Allianc, llg them “pornographic” and suggtg they would turn children clash at MacArthur, a suburb northwt of Dallas, was not the rult of a new law or policy, or a public prsure mpaign at school board meetgs.
“They’re not gog to e out outright and say, ‘Don’t say gay, ’” she said of the school admistratn, “but they’re gog to make as difficult as possible for you to be allowed to exprs yourself or even learn about how you feel, who you are and your inty.
” It all started wh teachers postg small rabow stickers — long a symbol of the gay pri movement — outsi their classrooms to show stunts that they were LGBTQ alli. Acrdg to her personnel file, which Stonecipher shared wh NBC News, the district’s human rourc office believed that Stonecipher had lled MacArthur’s prcipal “homophobic, ” which Stonecipher ni, and that she ma lleagu unfortable when she shared her opn about LGBTQ issu.
FEATURED STORI
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“Bee whether the admistrators want to believe or not, there are kids who bully other kids for beg gay.
A feral judge later tossed the 2018, the district faced cricism om LGBTQ anizatns when a teacher reported that the district banned “Love Is Love, ” a ic book created to support survivors of the mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, followg a plat that the book featured “extreme homosexualy. Durg the meetg, stunts scribed stanc which they’d been lled homophobic slurs and been punched by classmat.
SCHOOLG MY STRAIGHT PROFSOR (A STUNT TEACHER GAY SEX SCTN STORY)
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She told the stunts that some of her bt iends were gay or bi, and that she had a transgenr relative.
FLORIDA TEACHER UNR VTIGATN FOR SHOWG DISNEY MOVIE WH GAY CHARACTER SAYS SHE DIDN’T KNOW LGBTQ RTRICTN APPLIED TO HER CLASS
A Florida teacher unr a state vtigatn for showg a Disney movie featurg a gay character said she wasn’t aware the state’s ntroversial law banng stctn about certa LGBTQ topics had been recently expand to apply to her gra level. * teacher gay student *
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GAY SUBSTUTE TEACHER SAYS HE WAS FIRED AFTER HANDG OUT PRI BRACELETS TO STUNTS
A gay Oh substute teacher was fired last week after handg out Pri bracelets to high school stunts, the latt example of LGBTQ discsn schools sparkg ntroversy amid heated bat school boards and stat around the untry. * teacher gay student *
’” said a transgenr stunt, a sophomore whom NBC News is not intifyg bee they have not e out to their parents. “It jt felt very targeted towards people I knew, like they were tryg to get teachers or stunts trouble, ” said Aly Harb, a sophomore and GSA member, who was also lled for a meetg wh HR district did not rpond to qutns about the meetgs.
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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.
‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT
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.
"I didn't have a teacher who I knew intified until my sophomore year of llege.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
“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.
THE PLIGHT OF BEG A GAY TEACHER
” 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. “A lot of tst is given to teachers, and ma seem like I wasn’t tsted bee there’s somethg wrong wh me for beg gay, ” he said.
“It mak seem like beg gay is somethg vile or disturbg or disgtg when ’s scribed as makg children unfortable knowg that I’m married to a man. ” While the Orlando parents did not succeed havg Thollanr discipled or oted, he and other LGBTQ teachers the state worry that newly signed state law — tled Parental Rights Edutn but dubbed by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law — will galvanize parents to take siar actn agast them.
Lawmakers who support the law have repeatedly strsed that would not prohib teachers and stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 attack at the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando.