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Contents:

• GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE
• “THAT’S SO GAY” | FROM A TEACHER’S PERSPECTIVE
• GAY TEACHERS
• CLASS ACTIVY: WAYS TO CIVILLY ENGAGE YOUR STUNTS ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW — AND OTHER NEWS FOR MARCH 31, 2022
• COMG OUT CLASS: WHEN TEACHERS TELL STUNTS "I'M GAY"
• TEACHER ATTUS TOWARD LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL STUNTS: EVINCE FOR TERGROUP NTACT THEORY AND SENDARY TRANSFER EFFECTS
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• BEG GAY AT SCHOOL REMAS DIFFICULT FOR TEACHERS
• WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT “THAT’S SO GAY”?
• GLENDALE THIRD-GRA TEACHER SHOWED GAY PRI VIOS. A YEAR LATER, FUR BATE EPTS
• HOW FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW REGULAT SCHOOL LSONS ON GENR, SEXUAL ORIENTATN
• HOW FLORIDA TEACHERS PLAN TO AL WH 'DON'T SAY GAY' L
• GAY MILLER
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW NF SOME FLORIDA SCHOOLS
• THIS BROWARD KRGARTEN TEACHER ISN’T GOG TO LET ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ CHANGE HER LSONS
• GOODBYE TO THE ‘GAY LSON’
• SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY
• 'GAY LSONS' MATHS, GEOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE
• HERE’S WHAT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ AND ANTI-'WOKE’ BILLS ACTUALLY SAY
• ‘IT’S A SAD DAY FOR TN.’ MIAMI TEACHERS REACT TO PASSG OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• GAY TEACHER 'HAD SEX HIS CLASSROOM DURG SCHOOL HOURS'

GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about.

“THAT’S SO GAY” | FROM A TEACHER’S PERSPECTIVE

Thursday, 20 Jul 2023 11:51 PM MYT KOTA KINABALU, July 20 — Three former stunts of a sendary school Kota Belud, who won a su agast their absentee teacher, hoped that the se would serve as a lson to all quarters, to fulfil their rpective of the platiffs, Calva Angayung, 22, exprsed hope that the victory would motivate others, who still keep their silence, to stand up for their rights. 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. For example, a Gallup poll of more than 12, 000 US adults (Jon, 2022), 21% of Generatn Z rponnts (born 1997–2003) self-intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT)—a rather high number pared to 11% of Millenials (born 1981–1996) and 4% of Generatn X rponnts (born 1965–1980).

The sexual mory stunts benef om the safe spac—where stunts n eely be who they are whout fearg negative nsequenc of any kd—created by their teachers as studi monstrate lbian, gay, and bisexual stunts to be more vulnerable than heterosexual stunts to experience homo- and biphobic discrimatn, stigmatizatn, and victimizatn (Dunn et al., 2017; Gegenfurtner & Gebhardt, 2017; Smh & Reidy, 2021) which, ultimately, rc their amic achievement (Goldfarb & Lieberman, 2021; Kosciw et al., 2020). To mimize the negative school experienc for sexual mory children and adolcents, is important to sensize pre-service teachers early their teachg reers and crease their attus toward the vulnerable groups of stunts bee, as rearch fdgs suggt, teachers wh posive attus toward lbian, gay, and bisexual stunts are more likely to create safe spac (Goldste-Schultz, 2022), prevent homophobic behavr (Glikman & Elkayam, 2019), rrect peer bullyg (Nappa et al., 2018), act as mentors (Gastic & Johnson, 2009), participate sexual diversy trag (Kwok, 2018), and implement LGBTQ-clive curricula their classrooms (Klocke et al., 2019; Page, 2017) than teachers wh homonegative attus. Eagly and Chaiken (2007) pos that attus n be short-term or long-term; while past experienc of an dividual wh a particular attu object (for example, wh gay or lbian stunts) n tablish a certa stable tenncy to rpond favorably or unfavorably to other gay or lbian stunts, the rpons are not necsarily temporally permanent—they n change as an dividual mak more experienc (for example, new social ntacts) which leave novel mental ridu that predispose how an dividual (a teacher) rponds to attu objects the future.

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For this purpose, survey-based rearch employs the feelg thermometer approach (Alw, 2007; Herek & McLemore, 2013), which measur overt affective feelgs toward an attu object (Eagly & Chaiken, 2007): Based on a symbolic thermometer, teachers numerilly exprs their favorable or unfavorable feelgs towards lbian, gay, and bisexual stunts, wh their attus rrpondg to temperatur. Posive relatns between tergroup ntact and rced sexual prejudice, posive attus, and equent rpons to homophobic bullyg school have also been documented wh teacher sampl om Germany (Klocke et al., 2019), Greece (Grigoropoulos, 2022), and Italy (Bac et al., 2020; Simone et al., 2022; Zotti et al., 2019).

To acunt for the different qualy of work ntacts, is specified here as someone one’s larger social work (for example, loose acquatanc at work or a socially distant neighbor), one’s close iendship circle (for example, a very good or a bt iend), or one’s fay (a lbian, gay, or bisexual siblg). Ground this amework, past rearch on pre-service and -service teachers examed a seri of rrelat, cludg age, genr, sexual orientatn, hometown size, religsy, and polil, terms of age, Herek and McLemore (2013) speculated that sexual prejudice tends to bee “dysfunctnal if muny and peer group norms change such that exprsns of antigay attus evoke social rejectn rather than support” (p. Although seems plsible that (cisgenr heterosexual) men value bi- and homosexual dividuals to affirm their own masculy and heterosexualy (Herek & McLemore, 2013), a number of studi have reported nonsignifint genr differenc attus (Grigoropoulos, 2022; Hall & Rodgers, 2019; Stucky et al., 2020; Wyatt et al., 2008).

The fdgs rrpond wh ample rearch evince beyond teacher populatns documentg greater levels of sexual prejudice and homonegative attus of heterosexual men pared to heterosexual women, particularly directed toward gay men (Herek, 2002; Klocke, prs; Petersen & Hy 2010).

CLASS ACTIVY: WAYS TO CIVILLY ENGAGE YOUR STUNTS ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW — AND OTHER NEWS FOR MARCH 31, 2022

A number of studi wh teachers workg Korea (Jeong, 2020), Brazil (Stucky et al., 2020), Italy (Bac et al., 2020), and the USA (Hall & Rodgers, 2019; Page, 2017) have reported that highly relig teachers have ls posive attus toward lbian and gay people, prumably bee homosexualy dispts and vlat the value systems and tradnal genr rol of certa relig nomatns. Teachers who are polilly liberal and left-wg oriented have more favorable feelgs toward lbians and gays than teachers who are polilly nservative and right-wg oriented (Bac et al., 2020; Foy & Hodge, 2016; Hall & Rodgers, 2019; Heras-Sevilla & Ortega-Sánchez, 2020; Klocke et al., 2019), probably bee polilly nservative people value heteronormative genr rol and sexual relatns. Hypothis 1 assumed that pre-service teachers wh lbian, gay, or bisexual dividuals their social work (Hypothis 1a), particularly as close iends (Hypothis 1b) or fay members (Hypothis 1c), would display more posive attus than pre-service teachers whout social ntact.

Hypothis 2 assumed that attus toward lbian, gay, and bisexual stunts would be more favorable among pre-service teachers who are of younger ag (Hypothis 2a), are female (Hypothis 2b), intify as bisexual or homosexual (Hypothis 2c), were raised an urban area (Hypothis 2d), are ls relig (Hypothis 2e), and are polilly left-wg oriented (Hypothis 2f). The feelg thermometer sr were terrelated, suggtg that people wh homonegative attus toward lbian and gay stunts also display begative attus toward bisexual stunts; siarly, people wh posive attus toward lbian stunts tend to display posive feelgs toward gay and bisexual stunts as well. Regrsn analysis: Predictors of lbian, gay, and bisexual thermometer sr Study 1Full size tableIn terms of mographic variabl, age was found to be negatively associated wh attus toward lbian, gay, and bisexual stunts, suggtg that the younger participants tend to have more posive feelgs than olr participants; th, Hypothis 2a was nfirmed.

4 Discsn of study 1In le wh attu theory (Eagly & Chaiken, 2007) and tergroup ntact theory (Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006), the fdgs of Study 1 nfirm that social ntact and mographic variabl are important predictors of pre-service teacher attus toward homo- and bisexual children and adolcents at school. 2 Intergroup ContactIn Study 2, pre-service teachers were asked to rpond to three ems each to dite whether they have (a) a lbian woman, gay man, or bisexual dividual their social work; (b) a close lbian, gay, or bisexual iend; or (c) a lbian, gay, or bisexual fay member.

COMG OUT CLASS: WHEN TEACHERS TELL STUNTS "I'M GAY"

Specifilly, pre-service teachers were assigned the numeril 1 if they (a) had ntact wh lbian women or gay men but not wh bisexual people, (b) had ntact wh lbian women or bisexual people but not wh gay men, or (c) had ntact wh gay men or bisexual people but not wh lbian women.

Compared to pre-service teachers whout any LGB ntact, pre-service teachers who had no ntact wh lbian women still showed favorable attus toward lbian stunts if they had prr social ntact wh gay men and bisexual people; their tergroup ntact was associated wh a sendary rctn of homonegative attus toward the nonntacted outgroup of lbians. Most importantly, the predictive assumptns of the tergroup ntact theory (Allport, 1954; Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006) were nfirmed; specifilly, the prence of a lbian, gay, or bisexual dividual wh one’s social work or as a close iend was found to be posively associated wh attu sr, which is le wh prevly reported empiril rults (Bac et al., 2020; Simone et al., 2022; Foy & Hodge, 2016; Grigoropoulos, 2022; Klocke, prs; Reimer et al., 2017; Stucky et al., 2020; Zotti et al., 2019).

TEACHER ATTUS TOWARD LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL STUNTS: EVINCE FOR TERGROUP NTACT THEORY AND SENDARY TRANSFER EFFECTS

Based on the fdgs of Study 1, we n nclu that attus toward sexual mory stunts are more posive among young, female, bi- or homosexual, ls relig, and polilly left-wg-oriented pre-service teachers and those wh close lbian, gay, or bisexual iends or work support of the sendary transfer effect (Pettigrew, 2009), the fdgs of Study 2 nfirmed that tergroup ntact wh sexual mory groups is associated wh a sendary rctn of bi- and homonegative attus toward the nonntacted outgroup.

Furthermore, future studi n exame the nsequenc of pre-service teacher attus and actns when alg wh sexual mory stunts class, such as chang judgment accuracy (Tobisch & Drel, 2017), reactns to homophobic bullyg (Klocke et al., 2019; Nappa et al., 2018; Zotti et al., 2019), and sexual mory stunts’ school adaptatn (Schotte et al., 2022), to help create safe spac for the growg number of sexual mory stunts who disclose their sexual orientatns at school. Possible avenu for attu change—or at least posive attu formatn—among this populatn clu promotg social ntact wh lbian, gay, and bisexual dividuals teacher tn semars; vg LGBTQIA + experts to share their stori and experienc; readg LGBTQIA + lerature; and listeng to stunt g-out narrativ (Bartoş et al., 2014; Dsel, 2010; Gato et al., 2020; Gegenfurtner & Gebhardt, 2017). Overall, if we nsir that pre-service teachers, once they beg their service, will work for many years wh a growg number of children and adolcents classrooms that intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (Gato et al., 2020; Gower et al., 2022; Jon, 2022; Moskowz et al., 2022; Scharmanski & Heßlg, 2021), then teacher tn programs should aim at supportg pre-service teachers reflect on their attus and preparg future teacher generatns to create clive and safe spac for every child class.

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. “The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

His experienc echo the fdgs of a rearch report rried out earlier this year by the gay equaly anisatn Stonewall, The School Report, which found that 96% of gay pupils had heard homophobic language such as "poof" or "lezza" at school – behavur that often go unchallenged by teachers. "The legacy of Sectn 28 – the ntroversial legislatn that banned the "promotn" of homosexualy schools – lgers on, even ne years after s removal, says Streetg, pecially given how many current teachers traed and first tght that Dellenty, the puty head of Aled Salter primary school south-east London, whose succsful anti-homophobic bullyg programme has attracted the attentn of the Department for Edutn, says fear of backlash, and a lack of trag, are the ma reasons behd some school lears' unwillgns to support LGBT teachers and tackle homophobia. "You have a much easier relatnship wh stunts when they feel you have a human si, and if you don't tell them you're gay 's really difficult to talk about your life, bee you n't jt talk about your hband or wife, " he the ndns need to be right, says Suran Dickson, whose anisatn, Diversy Role Mols, works wh schools to unter negative stereotyp.

"Tips for school lears Lead om the top, and go back to basics: have clear and promoted polici on the issue Enforce the le that all stanc of homophobic language – cludg g "gay" as a pejorative term – mt be challenged, and ensure pupils and teachers unrstand why 's wrong Don't tolerate homophobia by staff, who should be provid wh trag on how to al wh homophobia and support LGBT pupils Make clear to LGBT staff that they have your support if they want to be open about their sexualy, and that any negative reactns will be alt wh swiftly and clearly Involve pupils the velopment and sign of anti-bullyg policiW Streetg, head of tn at Stonewall.

BEG GAY AT SCHOOL REMAS DIFFICULT FOR TEACHERS

(Wally Skalij / Los Angel Tim)A Glendale third-gra teacher who nearly a year ago showed vios celebratg gay pri to her stunts has been voluntarily transferred om her classroom for safety reasons after receivg threats — a lol chapter the natn's fur bate over what should be tght schools about genr nflict the Glendale Unified School District, a suburban L.

WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT “THAT’S SO GAY”?

"The Glendale nflict is unfoldg as teachg about genr inty public schools has joed other polilly ght, divisive bat, cludg on cril race theory, social emotnal learng and vacce mandat for also echo the natnal ntroversy over a new Florida law, which crics ll the "Don't Say Gay" bill, sayg margaliz gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people. She fears that if she mentns , she will get trouble unr the Parental Rights Edutn bill (known as the “don’t say gay” law) backed by Florida’s ernor, Ron the summer holidays approach, Florida teachers are feelg anx, nfed and beaten down by new laws, champned by DeSantis, that lim how issu of race n be tght, what teachers n say about sex, pecially about homosexualy, and what books are permted schools. And I n tell you, as someone who grew up as a gay boy, how real that statistic is and how dangero is that the Republin legislators are playg wh the safety of our vulnerable McCracken is appalled when he hears DeSantis claim that schools are, the ernor's words, sexualizg kids and, quote, "jectg transgenrism to the classroom.

”Karl Frisch, an openly gay member of the Fairfax board — whom Langton acced whout evince her remarks of admirg pedophilia, a charge he ni — wrote a text msage that “this is about the chillg msage the attacks send to LGBTQ young people who serve our passn and protectn. (AP) — Some Florida schools have moved library books and bated changg textbooks rponse to a law crics ll “Don’t Say Gay” — and some teachers have worried that fay pictur on their sks uld get them stunts return om summer break, tors are utly adjtg and wag to see how the new law erng lsons on genr and sexual orientatn will be terpreted and enforced.

GLENDALE THIRD-GRA TEACHER SHOWED GAY PRI VIOS. A YEAR LATER, FUR BATE EPTS

The send year, she built the nnectns; she saw some of the kids get new siblgs and MORE: Broward school district askg voters to double tax rate to boost teacher pay, school safetyFlorida’s new tn lawsThen me the Florida Legislature’s wave of tn bills passed the sprg, most notably Hoe Bill 1557, lled the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill, but which crics have assailed as the “Don’t say gay” bill, signed to law by Gov. Teachers e wh a variety of polil leangs and by and large do the work bee they want to make a posive impact  their stunts' are our neighbors, iends and fay members, not enemi wh nefar goals of turng kids to so-lled woke view: Oh's LGBTQ kids would be forced closet wh lawmaker's 'Don't Say Gay' pyYou would not know that om the ever-expandg list of rrosive bills currently the Oh General Assembly aimed at rtrictg the work of a group of traed profsnals h hard wh strs, fear and some s threats of or actual physil vlence durg the heights of the COVID-19 panmic.

They n opt kids of any age out of all or any part of health tn cludg those about important topics such as sexually transmted disease ways Oh Republins are workg to remake public tnInstead of protectg kids, passage of 616 would put a larger target on the backs of LGBTQ youth and erase anythg that would broan unrstandg of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people om schools.

HOW FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW REGULAT SCHOOL LSONS ON GENR, SEXUAL ORIENTATN

The repeal of Sectn 28 gave teachers the room to explore the issu (though many good teachers had been for years) and the troductn of the Sexual Orientatns Regulatns 2003 rerced to public bodi, such as schools, that homophobia was the same as racism, sexism or any other form of discrimatn the workplace.

— Florida state senators on Tuday approved legislatn that regulat school lsons about sexual orientatn and genr inty, fyg mands om some of their youngt nstuents and phg the state eper to the natn’s culture legislatn, which Florida Democrats and LGBTQ activists refer to as the “don’t say gay” bill, now advanc to Gov. ”Will Larks, a gay and nonbary 11th-grar at Wter Park High School central Florida, helped anize the walkout at their school an terview after the Senate vote Tuday, Larks said they were “really sred” that lawmakers had “validated the bigoted ias” by supportg the legislatn.

Florida’s legislature passed ntroversial bills the past two weeks affectg nversatns about race and racism the classroom, as well as rtrictg younger stunts’ accs to lsons on sexual orientatn and genr bills—wily referred to as an anti-"woke” bill and a “Don’t Say Gay” bill—have been vered extensively natnal media and even late night televisn.

HOW FLORIDA TEACHERS PLAN TO AL WH 'DON'T SAY GAY' L

And while 83 percent of tors felt that they should provi a safe environment for their LGBTQ stunts—by displayg visible symbols of support or disciplg stunts for g homophobic language, for example—only half had taken actn to do so, acrdg to the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), an anizatn that helps K–12 schools create safe environments for LGBTQ stunts. But we n also dismantle ways of thkg that rerce the genr dichotomy and heteronormativy, and we mt create safe spac for children to explore their inti and empathize wh those who are different om 2017, the CDC timated that 8 percent of high school stunts intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer (LGBTQ).

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Alexia Fore for The Miami Herald Fear over silencg teachers, retag themDpe the bill’s language to addrs curriculum discsns gras K-3, many teachers, cludg Liz Moral, a teacher at Felix Varela Senr High School and sponsor of the schools’ Gay-Straight Alliance, say uld have a silencg effect on teachers higher-level gras, too. "The dividual volved has been placed on admistrative leave pendg a thorough vtigatn, " Alyssa Griffhs, the director of munitns for the Placentia-Yorba Lda Unified School District, said a statement to Fox the vio the teacher qutn, whose inty has not been nfirmed by the school district, is seen stg before a class at El Dorado High School Placentia, talkg about sex toys and why gay sex is pleasurable for FOX NEWS DIGITAL ORIGINALS HEADLINESWATCH MORE FOX NEWS DIGITAL ORIGINALS HERE"Here is where the prostate is, so you don't have to go si the booty hole, you n actually jt ph on the seam and that stimulat the prostate gland as well, " the teacher said stg ont of a screen wh an image of a prostate gland.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW NF SOME FLORIDA SCHOOLS

THIS BROWARD KRGARTEN TEACHER ISN’T GOG TO LET ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ CHANGE HER LSONS

GOODBYE TO THE ‘GAY LSON’

SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY

'GAY LSONS' MATHS, GEOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE

HERE’S WHAT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ AND ANTI-'WOKE’ BILLS ACTUALLY SAY

‘IT’S A SAD DAY FOR TN.’ MIAMI TEACHERS REACT TO PASSG OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

GAY TEACHER 'HAD SEX HIS CLASSROOM DURG SCHOOL HOURS'