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).

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

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. 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.

OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA

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.

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

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.

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.