'Books featurg gay people reprent historil accuracy ... [and] are need to help kids see a world beyond their hometown,' says a former teacher.
Contents:
- A GAY NEW YORK TEACHER WAS FIRED OM A CATHOLIC SCHOOL AFTER MARRYG HIS PARTNER
- A GAY TEACHER NEW YORK WAS FIRED OM A CATHOLIC SCHOOL AFTER MARRYG HIS PARTNER
- A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
- LGBTQ VS. RELIGN: HOW A GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR'S FIRG ULD AFFECT LNS OF WORKERS
- TEACHER SPEND FOR BEG GAY: HOW THIS IS LEGAL 28 STAT
- FLORIDA TEACHER FIRED FROM ADVENTIST SCHOOL FOR BEG GAY
- TEACHER FIRED FOR BEG GAY GETS AN APOLOGY FOUR DES LATER
- LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I WAS A CLOSETED GAY TEACHER. TEXTBOOKS WH LGBTQ+ FIGUR MATTER TO GAY STUNTS
A GAY NEW YORK TEACHER WAS FIRED OM A CATHOLIC SCHOOL AFTER MARRYG HIS PARTNER
A battle over rabow stickers at MacArthur High School Irvg, Texas, has hobbled the Gay-Straight Alliance and left LGBTQ stunts feelg unsafe. * gay teachers fired *
A gay teacher was fired om a Catholic school Queens, New York, after he got married Augt. "I'm stripped of both of my jobs, all of my employment, my health surance, and, most importantly, the muny life that has meant so much to me, not bee of my work performance — not the slightt — but bee I'm gay, " he said a YouTube vio reuntg his experience.
LaBan told the lol outlet WABC-TV that he was surprised by the cisn bee he was out as gay before his weddg. “I’m stripped of both of my jobs, all of my employment, my health surance and, most importantly, the muny life that has meant so much to me, not bee of my work performance – not the slightt – but bee I’m gay, ” he said.
You're not alone:Top-level pro soccer player Josh Cavallo out as gay, enuragg others they're 'not alone'Grdr:Texas man sentenced to feral prison for lurg and attackg gay men through Grdr appIn a statement sent to USA TODAY, officials om the school and church where LaBan worked nfirmed his termatn was not bee he was not good at his job.
A GAY TEACHER NEW YORK WAS FIRED OM A CATHOLIC SCHOOL AFTER MARRYG HIS PARTNER
Steven Arz was dismissed om his $49,000-a-year posn at Fort Lake Edutn Center shortly after featurg an article published by onle news se Gays Wh Kids. * gay teachers fired *
" The district also shared plats om parents who were ncerned about the nversatn and the artwork, acrdg to the NBC 's firg amid a natnwi discsn over whether LGBTQ issu or inti should be discsed at bate was igned earlier this year by the newly enacted Florida law, which crics have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill.
One faculty sponsor of the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance is facg havg her ntract termated, another is preparg to rign, and a third has been removed om the classroom. Two teachers said that the school’s prcipal asked teachers to take down gay pri flags their classrooms and offic. Several stunts said that eher they or their classmat have been lled homophobic slurs and bullied, and school staff members have failed to tervene.
A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
A school district official will issue a public apology to Jim Gaylord at an LGBT event more than four s after he was fired. * gay teachers fired *
Some said they’re disuraged by the Irvg Inpennt School District’s rponse to the ncerns they’ve raised through the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) and school board meetgs, and they feel ls safe at school than they did a year ago.
And advot for LGBTQ stunts are alarmed by some parents’ recent mands that schools prohib stunts om anizg Gay-Straight Allianc, llg them “pornographic” and suggtg they would turn children clash at MacArthur, a suburb northwt of Dallas, was not the rult of a new law or policy, or a public prsure mpaign at school board meetgs. “They’re not gog to e out outright and say, ‘Don’t say gay, ’” she said of the school admistratn, “but they’re gog to make as difficult as possible for you to be allowed to exprs yourself or even learn about how you feel, who you are and your inty. ” It all started wh teachers postg small rabow stickers — long a symbol of the gay pri movement — outsi their classrooms to show stunts that they were LGBTQ alli.
LGBTQ VS. RELIGN: HOW A GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR'S FIRG ULD AFFECT LNS OF WORKERS
Acrdg to her personnel file, which Stonecipher shared wh NBC News, the district’s human rourc office believed that Stonecipher had lled MacArthur’s prcipal “homophobic, ” which Stonecipher ni, and that she ma lleagu unfortable when she shared her opn about LGBTQ issu. “Bee whether the admistrators want to believe or not, there are kids who bully other kids for beg gay. A feral judge later tossed the 2018, the district faced cricism om LGBTQ anizatns when a teacher reported that the district banned “Love Is Love, ” a ic book created to support survivors of the mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, followg a plat that the book featured “extreme homosexualy.
Durg the meetg, stunts scribed stanc which they’d been lled homophobic slurs and been punched by classmat. She told the stunts that some of her bt iends were gay or bi, and that she had a transgenr relative. "Aly Harb, MacArthur High School sophomore Acrdg to Victor Fsto, the GSA’s print, the equent meetgs draw jt five to 10 stunts.
’” said a transgenr stunt, a sophomore whom NBC News is not intifyg bee they have not e out to their parents. “It jt felt very targeted towards people I knew, like they were tryg to get teachers or stunts trouble, ” said Aly Harb, a sophomore and GSA member, who was also lled for a meetg wh HR district did not rpond to qutns about the meetgs.
TEACHER SPEND FOR BEG GAY: HOW THIS IS LEGAL 28 STAT
Fired for beg gay: How ’s legal 28 stat Stacy Bailey is an elementary school teacher Texas who is sug the school district for discrimatn after she was spend for discsg her sexual orientatn. She is sug the Mansfield Inpennt School District (MISD) for spendg her for discsg her sexual orientatn her 31-year-old art teacher liv one of 28 stat where ’s legal to spend or fire someone bee of his or her sexual ART TEACHER SUES SCHOOL DISTRICT AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF PROMOTING 'HOMOSEXUAL' school district released a statement sayg they are and have always been “an clive, supportive environment for LGBT staff for s.
This, they argued, is a form of discrimatn based on 7th Circu ed this sexual stereotypg theory to argue homosexuals nnot be punished by an employer bee they don’t behave the way they “should, ” that is they don’t have romantic relatnships wh people of the oppose regard to Bailey’s se, a siar argument n be ma her fense, Mayerson said. A teacher Florida was fired om his posn at a school n by an Adventist anizatn for beg Arz was dismissed om his $49, 000-a-year role as a sixth-gra teacher at Fort Lake Edutn Center (FLEC) Longwood, central Florida, on June 23 shortly after featurg an article published by onle news se Gays Wh, who has an adopted son, told the Orlando Sentel newspaper he had hoped the terview would lead to more children Florida's foster re system fdg lovg fay hom.
"Arz went on to tail how the supertennt of schools for the Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists had ntacted him via email followg the publitn of the Gays Wh Kids article, notg the piece had intified him as a "gay father" who was datg another the email, which Arz shared wh the Orlando Sentel, Frank Runnels wrote: "You are aware that this nduct, if te, do not port wh the Seventh-day Adventist church's standards and the tn program at FLEC. "The Bible mak no acmodatn for homosexual activy or relatnships, " acced the statewi Adventist anizatn of unjtly dismissg him wh their move, which me ltle more than a week after June's watershed U.
FLORIDA TEACHER FIRED FROM ADVENTIST SCHOOL FOR BEG GAY
Supreme Court lg held that discrimatn agast gay and transgenr workers was illegal unr the 1964 Civil Rights particular, he highlighted that FLEC had received public money the form of state scholarships as well as feral ronavis Lake relied on state scholarships for at least 40 percent of s stunts last year, acrdg to the Florida Department of Edutn and Step Up For Stunts, a non-prof anizatn which admisters many of the scholarships, which see parents provid wh state-backed vouchers to pay for their children's tun, brought the facily nearly $1. 7 ln addn to scholarship money, the Longwood school received $82, 700 feral Coronavis Aid, Relief, and Enomic Secury Act money, acrdg to the Orlando rerds meanwhile show the Florida nference, which says t some 4, 600 stunts statewi, also received between $350, 000 to $1 ln fivable loans unr the feral Paycheck Protectn Program, another ronavis panmic relief effort, the newspaper while Florida's scholarship law prohibs schools that take the vouchers om discrimatg agast stunts based on "race, lor or natnal orig, " do not explicly protect gay law also do not protect LGBTQ people om employment discrimatn, meang is unclear whether the termatn of Arz's ntract uld be succsfully challenged. "But more than four s after what Jim Gaylord, now 76, refers to as “the unpleasant event, ” the Washgton school district that he was fired om will offer a public apology.
Gaylord was paid a vis om the Wilson High School vice print around Thanksgivg 42 years ago, he relled. A stunt had recently speculated that his teacher was gay, and the vice prcipal approached Gaylord to qutn him about the claim. “I didn’t thk there was much pot nyg , ” Gaylord told NBC News.
Gaylord was what the former teacher sarstilly lled “a nice touch, ” he was formally fired jt before Christmas on the grounds of homosexualy.
TEACHER FIRED FOR BEG GAY GETS AN APOLOGY FOUR DES LATER
Gaylord “enjoyed” his job, he said, and wanted back. “I had to lose my privacy to protect my privacy, ” he five-year-long oral eventually ma to the state’s Supreme Court, but even after all the time and all the trouble, Gaylord didn’t get his job the 1977 se, the urt ced the New Catholic Encyclopedia to le that Gaylord was legimately fired bee homosexualy was nsired an “immoraly” that was a “sufficient e for discharge. ”“If Gaylord had not been discharged after he beme known as a homosexual, the rult would be fear, nfn, spicn, parental ncern, and prsure on the admistratn by stunts, parents, and other teachers, ” the cisn read part.
LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I WAS A CLOSETED GAY TEACHER. TEXTBOOKS WH LGBTQ+ FIGUR MATTER TO GAY STUNTS
“It is equable and right for the District to publicly acknowledge that the actns taken 1972 were rooted prejudice and unsubstantiated fear, ” the current Taa School District print, Kurt Miller, plans to say durg an apology he will liver to Gaylord on Sunday. Gaylord “was only acced of beg gay and received excellent evaluatns while a teacher, ” Miller told NBC News. ”Miller was approached by the director of Oasis, a LBGT youth center Washgton after one of their members profiled Gaylord.
Gaylord, still a private man, said he was surprised by the offer and fds the attentn “a b awkward. ”On the other hand, “ should offer some more closure, ” said Gaylord, who disclosed that the oral hnted him up until about 10 years the fort, Gaylord said, he hop the apology “will help the youth … and also put some gay teachers at ease.
“It has been a long and hard road for gay rights and a lot of work still needs to be done, ” said Miller, who plans to make clear his apology that the Taa School District has bee acceptg and said the center is enuraged by the rponse om the district and hop Gaylord, who spent most of the rt of his reer years as a librarian, “will be able to live the rt of his life knowg that his muny lov and supports him, knowg that for some stunts, he was the bt teacher they have ever had.