NAIS - Unrstandg the 'Gayby Boom'

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.

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

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. 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.

OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA

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.

Several years ago, I ma the cisn to e out as gay. As a gay father, hband, and head of school.

THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM

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.