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Contents:

• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
• WHEN AFTER-SCHOOL SPECIALS GO GAY
• MANY PARENTS STGGLE TO ADJT AFTER LEARNG CHILD IS GAY, STUDY FDS
• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg .

“Unr the headg ‘Protts, ’ one paragraph discs gay rights California and unr the headg ‘Court Cas, ’ there are two paragraphs that discs the urt s that allowed gay marriage California. She said a supplemental rource lists Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and polician who was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. Milk was believed to be the first openly gay person elected to public office California.

Those textbooks do not ply wh a 2011 state law that requir schools to teach stunts about the historil ntributns of gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins. 5m if didn’t approve the board voted to reject the material May and even s acceptance of the curriculum on Friday said would strike out anythg mentng Harvey Milk, the gay rights activist and polician who was assassated along wh San Francis mayor Gee Mosne 1978.

WHEN AFTER-SCHOOL SPECIALS GO GAY

Milk, who has bee a totemic figure the ph for LGBTQ+ equaly the US, is thought to have been the first openly gay person to be elected to public office do not feature the new social studi textbook, a school board member told CNN, but is listed supplemental material along wh a range of other historil figur’ bgraphi. Homosexual acts are illegal Malaysia and punishable by f and up to 20 years prison. You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive, ” he said addrsg the dience.

5 ln fe agast the Temecula Valley Unified School District ls than a day after nservative board members voted to reject a state-endorsed curriculum that clus a short bgraphy of gay rights lear Harvey Milk.

Komrosky, the board print, has lled Milk a "pedophile, " while dozens of atten, many om outsi the school district, livered impassned speech agast teachg anythg that refers to sex or homosexualy to elementary school-age stunts. Gav Newsom over lson plans that mentned the state's first openly gay elected public Temecula Valley Unified School District had prevly voted to reject the curriculum part bee some board members were ncerned the curriculum's supplementary material mentned Harvey Milk, the former San Francis supervisor and gay rights advote who was assassated 1978. They also stcted the district's terim supertennt to review a portn of the curriculum that clus a discsn of gay rights and how same-sex marriage me to be legal California.

MANY PARENTS STGGLE TO ADJT AFTER LEARNG CHILD IS GAY, STUDY FDS

The ntroversy, which stems om the material's mentn of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to polil office California, and allegatns that he was a pedophile. On Wednday, the district voted 3-2 favor of rejectg a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that mentns gay rights activist Harvey Milk, markg the send such ocsn that the district nied the material.

And then what if I told you that a ccial moment of the plot is the disvery of a gay porn magaze lled... Well, what if I jt told you the tle: What If I’m Gay?

The Gay AgendaFive teenagers walk out of a movie theater and to a pizza rtrant. (This feels very Miranda for someone who ends up marryg Charlotte…)Then Allen drops a bombshell and exprs some sympathy for a pro basketball player who recently me out as gay. Hold the breadsticks, Allen mt be the gay one.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

By 11 mut to this special, the three are workg out Todd’s bedroom (image a bedroom big enough to f a bed, a weight bench, a sk, and a closet full of homosexual skeletons).

(FWIW, my mother also found out I was gay by fdg a Playgirl magaze my closet wh Brian At Green on the ver! I image many a closeted anti-gay polician nnects wh this. Is all homophobia rooted secury about one’s own sexualy?

He shar wh Todd a story of his gay uncle.

“I’m old enough to remember how hard was for him to e out, ” Allen says, notg that the fay even tried to send him to ex-gay therapy to cure him. ” (Given that ex-gay therapy, which is total garbage, is still practiced many stat today, for this to be said 1987 do feel pretty ahead of s time.

But that don’t let off the hook entirely for terg to a b of the, “It’s okay to be gay, as long as you’re not one of those disgtg gays” example, toward the end of the special Todd nfis Ed Mararo’s blogy teacher that he thks he’s gay.

“Look Todd, I'm not a therapist, I’m jt a school unselor, ” he says, before lettg Todd know that jt bee he’s gay don’t mean he has to live a life of perversn. The verdictAs far as queer storyl for teens go, What If I’m Gay? And that’s not jt bee ’s one of the first after-school specials to foc on the “Gay people exist high schools?!

There are actually some really tenr scen this special between Todd and his dad (Todd asks his dad if he knows any gay people, and a nversatn ensu about how gay people also existed the 1960s) there’s also a really direct nversatn between Todd and his iend Kirk about how they fooled around as kids, which sounds like out of nowhere (and sort of do), but also marks one of the only tim I n thk of where the subject of kids explorg their own sexual inti together was vered on work televisn—let alone an after-school special—and portrayed as somethg while may not pack the Disney charm of Love, Simon or the emotn of My So Called Life or the gra-A queer love story of Jane the Virg, there’s a lot to like the 45 mut that is What If I’m Gay? )Grab your own aperol sprz, thk about the impact this special might have had on a gay kid who ught this at 3 p. At my school, the very place that I first observed queer cursy, I was sred to e out, fearg my own physil and emotnal wasn’t jt the school locker room where I heard homophobic remarks.

Gay people are an abomatn and are gog to Hell if they don’t get right wh God. ” Years later he warned: “If you turn out gay, I’ll fuck you up. Image me, a young black gay Christian male, tryg to rencile my sexualy wh school, home, and church life.

What happens to a black gay Christian who liv a hoehold that hat him; who really believed that he was gog to Hell.

Perhaps was the support of iends, nts, and those around me that ma me not want to feel ashamed about myself anymore, even if that meant God damng me to the begng of senr year, I went om “I’m gay” to whoever asked, to “Can you stop sayg faggot please?

A month later, I cid to no longer participate the mentorship program, and every time I was asked why, I ma exc about beg too time, I retreated to my fantasy world, where I was not sixteen and gay a homophobic environment, but a world where I was olr, the future, when I would arrive to a betiful home om a long day at work, and be weled by a hband who lov me and bears my burns on his shoulrs.

I was thrilled to be leavg and movg on, but I uld see that many of my fellow graduat were facg siar hurdl, on that I had enuntered, and had only masked their tth wh homophobia.