'Books featurg gay people reprent historil accuracy ... [and] are need to help kids see a world beyond their hometown,' says a former teacher.
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LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I WAS A CLOSETED GAY TEACHER. TEXTBOOKS WH LGBTQ+ FIGUR MATTER TO GAY STUNTS
As a retired gay teacher om a nservative district (Cho Valley Unified School District), I never felt I had the eedom to share my life the way my straight, Christian lleagu did. My gayns was a well known “secret” and much discsed among stunts and parents. Pri flags are meangful, reassurg symbols for gay kids, jt as the Amerin flag is meangful to all Amerins.
Books featurg gay people reprent historil accuracy. This world uld not be more different than most olr gay Amerins’ experience growg up.
I rell the very day and hour, at age 6, that I knew I was gay, although I wouldn’t know what that meant for many years. ”Seeg another gay person, or hearg any speck of validatn for gay people, would seemgly never e to me my more-nservative-than-Mississippi muny South we are a muny now wh many, many straight alli, and no matter what the Marjorie Taylor Green of the world have to say about , we are never gog back to the closet darkns. ” Readg about the gay “liftyle” do not make one gay any more than readg about wboys mak one a boys as young as 4 know that they are different om their iends.