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• A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
• GAY SUBSTUTE TEACHER SAYS HE WAS FIRED AFTER HANDG OUT PRI BRACELETS TO STUNTS
• TEACHERS ARE ALREADY GETTG FIRED, RIGNG & SPEAKG OUT AGAST DON’T SAY GAY MOVEMENT
• IRVG ISD BOARD TO CI FATE OF TEACHER REMOVED FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
• TEACHER: I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY. NOW IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE
• A GAY NEW YORK TEACHER WAS FIRED OM A CATHOLIC SCHOOL AFTER MARRYG HIS PARTNER
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS

A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL

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.

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.

GAY SUBSTUTE TEACHER SAYS HE WAS FIRED AFTER HANDG OUT PRI BRACELETS TO STUNTS

“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. 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.

TEACHERS ARE ALREADY GETTG FIRED, RIGNG & SPEAKG OUT AGAST DON’T SAY GAY MOVEMENT

“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.

IRVG ISD BOARD TO CI FATE OF TEACHER REMOVED FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL

"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.

'It's about damn time':Bryan Ruby be only active pro baseball player to be out as gayIn the vio, Pzen begs: "OK, so durg third perd, we do announcements and they do the Pledge of Allegiance. A California teacher has been "removed om the classroom" after posts on social media showed she enuraged stunts to pledge allegiance to a gay pri banner stead of a U. A screenshot of the viral vio that showed a teacher, who said she enuraged her stunts to pledge allegiance to a gay pri flag the classroom.

TEACHER: I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY. NOW IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE

Here's what each one, 22, said he was told last week that a parent plaed and alleged that he was "gog to teach their child to be gay.

A GAY NEW YORK TEACHER WAS FIRED OM A CATHOLIC SCHOOL AFTER MARRYG HIS PARTNER

"He add that he felt targeted for beg open about beg a gay man.

A gay Oh substute teacher was fired last week after handg out Pri bracelets to high school stunts, the latt example of LGBTQ discsn schools sparkg ntroversy amid heated bat school boards and stat around the untry.

A gay junr high school teacher Missouri rigned after he was orred to take down a Pri flag om his classroom and rea om discsg genr and sexualy issu his Wallis, 22, posted to Twter that he rigned om his posn teachg speech, theater, and world mythology at Neosho Junr High School Neosho after admistrators ma him sign a letter promisg not to discs "human sexualy" or his "own sexualy the classroom and uld have no displays or ursework on those subjects. "A parent lled last week to pla that I was gog to teach their child to be gay, " Wallis wrote to his Twter, addg the prcipal told him hangg a Pri flag was parable to hangg a nferate flag. \u201cA parent lled last week to pla that I was gog to teach their child to be gay.

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

A gay teacher and a lbian teacher are speakg out agast the harassment and censorship they’ve faced as school boards and state legislatur ban LGBTQ and anti-racist ntent om classrooms. Willie Carver — a gay French and English teacher at Montgomery County High School Mount Sterlg, Kentucky — told a U.

“I’ve always faced discrimatn as a gay teacher and I’ve weathered the storm bee my prence sav liv, ” Carver told the submtee.

In fact, schools are termatg gay teachers wh perfect rerds, Carver said.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

I’ve always faced discrimatn as a gay teacher and I’ve weathered the storm bee my prence sav liv…. Even before Florida passed s “Don’t Say Gay” law banng LGBTQ discsns om krgarten through third-gra classrooms, Solomon only ever mentned her wife to a select handful of stunts: Those who had asked after disverg proof of her wife onle and those who approached her to discs their own queer inti.

AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS

One told her, “I like you as a person, but I don’t support gay marriage. Solomon overheard another lleague say that she’d never vote for Solomon to receive a state Rookie Teacher of the Year award bee she’s gay.

A gay mic teacher was forced to rign om his job at a private Christian school Cedar Valley, Iowa, after personal pictur hacked om his phone were posted to the school's social media. Gerhold said he told the school he was gay when he was hired last summer, but that their only ncern at the time was he keep his sexual inty a "secret and not pursue a relatnship" wh anyone while employed.

"I wasn't the first gay man the church has done this to, and I won't be the last bee the church don't want to listen to unrstand my story or background. Stonecipher and a lleague were placed on admistrative leave last September after they were forced to remove rabow stickers om their classroom doors supportg gay and transgenr removal ed hundreds of stunts to walk out of class last fall prott, and Stonecipher was moved to a different school the month, school board tste upheld the ban on rabow stickers.