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Contents:
- SECRET GAY CLUB CREATED AND PROMOTED BY IDAHO SCHOOL STAFF
- SECRET TEACHER: SCHOOLS HAVE E A LONG WAY SCE I WAS A GAY PUPIL
- SECRET TEACHER: I'M MY SCHOOL'S GO-TO GAY GUY
SECRET GAY CLUB CREATED AND PROMOTED BY IDAHO SCHOOL STAFF
An Idaho school is promotg a gay club for middle and high school stunts that was tend to be hidn om parents. The prciple and staff is rponsible for hand pickg stunts they thought would be f for their new club, but they are now receivg backlash. * secret school gay *
I liked A Normal Guy particularly for s readg of the suatn for gay guys Romania - sual homophobia but more or ls an acceptance of other liftyl. When Rsell later told her roommate she would rather have been nonted privately, she was told her relatnship “wasn’t right” Liberty junr had been slowly revealg she was gay – nfidg one person, who led her to another gay stunt and then another. The school was found 1971 by Southern Baptist televangelist Jerry Falwell, a man renowned for his attacks on the gay muny.
In the 1980s, he notorly claimed that “Aids is not jt God’s punishment for homosexuals.
It is God’s punishment for the society that tolerat homosexuals.
SECRET TEACHER: SCHOOLS HAVE E A LONG WAY SCE I WAS A GAY PUPIL
” He ntued to make flammatory statements about gay people throughout his life, but he also ma overtur to the muny later Rev Jerry Falwell crowd surfs held by stunts 1997 durg the Big South Tournament semifal basketball game at Liberty Universy. Photograph: Doug Koontz/APFalwell’s longtime ghostwrer, the Rev Mel Whe, was gay. Falwell mataed that the “gay liftyle” was a s, but agreed to tone down anti-LGBTQ language, only to later blame the 9/11 terrorist attacks on gay people, femists and “abortnists” Falwell’s ath 2007, his son Jerry Falwell Jr took over and transformed Liberty to a $1bn empire.
SECRET TEACHER: I'M MY SCHOOL'S GO-TO GAY GUY
Her story is one of many: several stunts terviewed by the Guardian said they stggled wh ternalized homophobia, mental health problems and suici least she was able to avoid “pastoral unselg”, offered by the school, but which stunts assume is, effect, nversn therapy. Durg her cle her hman year, she went to one Liberty unselg ssn and did not mentn she was gay out of that fear, she said. “I was really worried that they were gog to try to pray the gay out of me, ” he Rsell wh the pri flag.
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