Arthur’s Gay Teacher and Other Stori Schools Won’t Tell | Learng for Jtice

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• ‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT
• IS LE SKYWALKER GAY? MARK HAL OPENS UP ABOUT 'STAR WARS' CHARACTERS' SEXUALY
• TEACHER: I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY. NOW IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE
• LE HERBERT’S TEACHER WARNED THE CLASS THEY’D CATCH HIS GAYNS BY USG THE SAME FRIDGE
• ARTHUR’S GAY TEACHER AND OTHER STORI SCHOOLS WON’T TELL
• GAY TEACHERS ME OUT TO PUPILS DURG SCHOOL ASSEMBLY
• GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE
• HOW A GAY CHARACTER ON ARTHUR REFLECTS CHANGG NORMS THE U.S.

‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT

Is Le Skywalker gay? The rebels gay. The recent ntroversy over whether or not Le Skywalker is gay is not even the begng of .

Mark Hal, who played Le, suggted an terview at the time that Le uld be gay. Vany Fair reported that Hal said "of urse" Le is gay.

IS LE SKYWALKER GAY? MARK HAL OPENS UP ABOUT 'STAR WARS' CHARACTERS' SEXUALY

They say to me, 'Could Le be gay? If you thk Le is gay, of urse he is.

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

In an article tled "Do Not Make Le Skywalker Another Tragic Gay Character, " Emmet Asher-Perr wrote "If he were sudnly revealed as a gay character li of all that, his sexualy uld be perceived by the dience as tragedy. Asher-Perr put Le Skywalker the ntext of Dumbledore om the Harry Potter anchise, who had been retnned as homosexual, which add layers of untentnal meang to the already tablished bgraphy of the character.

William Shatner, who played the inic Star Trek Capta Kirk, wad to the ntroversy over a potentially gay Le 2021, when he poted out that Le got married to a woman Star Wars. After about a the classroom, he was named the bt tor Kentucky September 2021 -- but at the same time, he said, a small but vol mory his ral town Montgomery County went after, who is gay, told ABC News that he was sgled out for actually protectg LGBTQ kids his school and their fai, which ma him a said that earlier this year, a muny member who was postg about him on social media also repeatedly went to unty school board meetgs to report predatn and so-lled child "groomg" -- a term that has bee popular nservative circl for allegatns of adults sexually manipulatg said this person, who had not named him at the board meetgs but repeatedly referenced him by name onle, also "doxxed" him and some of his stunts on Facebook by sharg their private, acrdg to Carver, he and some stunts' parents asked Montgomery County Supertennt Dr.

"Many crics labeled the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

LE HERBERT’S TEACHER WARNED THE CLASS THEY’D CATCH HIS GAYNS BY USG THE SAME FRIDGE

Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights Edutn bill -- which don't specifilly e the word "gay, " though broadly rtricts talk of sexualy and genr -- to law earlier this year rponse to "woke genr iology. "Joshua Block is a staff attorney wh the Natnal ACLU’s Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr & HIV "We need to be teachg them to read or wre, to add, to subtract, " he said -- addg that "the purpose of our schools is to te kids not to doctrate them. "This is the exact oppose of what we need, " Kryk, a gay fifth-gra teacher outsi of Tampa, told ABC News.

He intifi as gay. Before the bill was passed, some Democrats unsuccsfully attempted to make more specific -- rtrictg stctn on sexual activy rather than orientatn, for though many who spoke wh ABC News said they are disappoted the law's lack of clary, some gay teachers don't see an issue wh . Pancholy's Stonewall Honor-wng novel "The Bt at It" follows 12-year-old Rahul Kapoor, who is not only figurg out his cultural inty as an Indian-Amerin but is also jt begng to realize that he might be gay.

ARTHUR’S GAY TEACHER AND OTHER STORI SCHOOLS WON’T TELL

And so what's next: gay marriage? He spoke to Edutn Week about teachg as a gay man ral Kentucky—and why recent efforts to rtrict rights for LGBTQ stunts are dangero. I have always been as gay as anythg uld be, but my first year of teachg [upon the pletn of a master’s gree, 2010], I uldn’t be.

You will not get a teachg license if you’re openly gay. I’ve been openly gay. I'm a proud gay man, I am the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, and I'm aaid to return to the classroom.

To his close iends and fay he was a young gay man a steady relatnship, while at the primary school where he worked his home life was a secret. It sentially forba schools and lol thori om acknowledgg that gay people existed, and even today high-profile s of gay teachers beg hound by relig groups create a climate of fear. Robson, who had hidn her own sexualy when she started teachg the 1980s, started the Courageo Lears programme bee she believed LGBT teachers were missg out on promotn, as they were aaid to put their heads above the year-long programme volv three days of face-to-face trag, cludg lectur, gut speakers and workshops, wh the aim of stillg learship skills and boostg nfince through sharg experienc and mutual summaris the succs a new book, Courage the Classroom, that clus chapters by lbian, gay and transgenr teachers about overg prejudice and learng to be themselv.

GAY TEACHERS ME OUT TO PUPILS DURG SCHOOL ASSEMBLY

“Then we put on thgs such as the big gay bake sale and really took off and attracted girls of all ag and their iends, who me to support them, ” she says.

GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE

“The biggt thg for me was the very first five mut of the first day when I found myself a room full of gay teachers for the first time. Abrams, director of the seventh and most diverse Star Wars film the seri, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, has said as much, and wants gay characters troduced future stallments of the seri.

However, a newly troduced gay character Star Wars might not necsarily be the first. "They say to me, 'Could Le be gay? "Is Le Skywalker Gay?

HOW A GAY CHARACTER ON ARTHUR REFLECTS CHANGG NORMS THE U.S.

"A gay character the biggt anchise the universe, one lked to so many childhoods and formative to what kids thk of as right and wrong, wouldn't que be the same as blowg up a Death Star, but would be close, " Eli Keel wrote for Salon. Moreover, wh Abrams' on-the-rerd ph, a gay character the Star Wars universe seems a matter of when, not if. "So seems sanely narrow-md and untertuive to say that there wouldn't be a homosexual character that world.

The fact that Star Wars' latt director and one of s actors want gay reprentatn is important — and should be seen not as the last step, but an important first one. 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.