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Contents:

• UNRSTANDG THE 'GAYBY BOOM'
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM

UNRSTANDG THE 'GAYBY BOOM'

But as an openly gay teacher at Indian Sprgs School, a boardg and day school Birmgham, Alabama, I fd myself often thkg about the ways we n celebrate our muny’s diversy and curate meangful nversatns about our multiple inti/affi — pecially as they relate to LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng, pl) issu. Support an active Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). The brachild of Kev Jenngs, a former pennt school teacher and founr of the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), GSAs have spng up all over the untry at all typ of schools.

At our school, the GSA has renamed self Q & A (Queers and Alli) an effort to clu a spectm of inti not reprented by the terms “gay” and “straight. I personally intify as gay, but I chose to e the term “queer” to be more clive of nonnormative sexuali, genr inti, and genr exprsns.

I e queer as an umbrella term to enpass, among others, gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, genrqueer, queer, and qutng posnali. The term “queer” beme ed amia the early 1990s to scribe an emergg field of study that blend gay and lbian studi, women’s studi, and poststcturalist and postmorn theoretil perspectiv.

LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM

Utilize the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network’s (GLSEN) rourc. The Amerin Library Associatn has many rourc available through s Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenr Round Table (). If we see LGBTQQIA (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and alli) and are unfaiar wh one of the terms, we should practice what we preach to our stunts: look up and do some rearch.

If an adult, a teacher pecially, hears a stunt e “gay” as a pejorative, is important to rrect that stunt. While popular culture and public disurse often rce queer issu to lbian and gay issu, we shouldn’t fet about the experienc of bi­sexual and trans people.

I am a gay father. I am a gay head of school.

OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA

Several years ago, I ma the cisn to e out as gay.

As a gay father, hband, and head of school. Later that month, the prence of the full board, I took a ep breath and, wh my heart poundg, said the words “I am gay” aloud. After all, there are not a lot of “gay head of school se studi” as part of board trag.

Eight stat have adopted “No Promo Homo” polici prohibg teachers om affirmg or teachg about homosexualy. If mentng one’s own spoe n be nsted by a parent as “teachg about homosexualy, ” teachers have reason to worry. Much of this change is rooted the work of tor Kev Jenngs and his stunts at Conrd Amy (MA) who created the first Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) the late 1980s.

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As GLSEN’s 2015 Natnal School Climate Survey: The Experienc of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Youth Our Natn’s Schools suggts, schools rema far om safe—physilly and emotnally—for LGBTQ stunts, and even ls so for their faculty and staff. Yet another teacher put this way: “[Heterosexual lleagu] are OK wh the gays and queers as long as they stay over there [and] don’t dispt.

” Several teachers reported that openly homophobic faculty are tolerated and rema supported as muny members. My journey as a gay head of school has been uniquely me. The majory of rponnts dited that they intify as gay or lbian (74 percent) and are fully out to fay, iends, and the school muny (73 percent); 18 percent reported beg out to fay/iends and select members of the school muny.

“I me to this role as an open gay male wh a hband who has been clud all appropriate school and admistrative events. Our school is que liberal wh other out gay admistrators.