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- ‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT
- KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM
- GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR FANS LGBTQ PRI IN VIRAL PHOTO WH DONALD TMP
- CG ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN, A TEACHER OF THE YEAR LEAV THE CLASSROOM
- ‘IT’S HAD A CHILLG EFFECT’: FLORIDA TEACHERS ANX ABOUT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
- FIRED GAY TEACHER WS LAWSU AGAST CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND DCE
- KENTUCKY’S 2022 TEACHER OF THE YEAR QUTG OVER ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN
- AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT
He spoke to Edutn Week about teachg as a gay man ral Kentucky—and why recent efforts to rtrict rights for LGBTQ stunts are dangero. I have always been as gay as anythg uld be, but my first year of teachg [upon the pletn of a master’s gree, 2010], I uldn’t be. You will not get a teachg license if you’re openly gay.
I’ve been openly gay.
KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM
I'm a proud gay man, I am the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, and I'm aaid to return to the classroom. Osr-wng actor Kev Spacey has said he is attracted to mascule men but is not able to tell whether someone is gay jt by lookg at cross-examatn durg his trial on sex abe charg, the Hollywood star nied he was a “sexual bully” and told the jury he did not have a “power wand” to make people want to sleep wh about his sexual preferenc, Mr Spacey said he had prevly had romantic enunters wh men who would not scribe themselv as homosexual. I don’t know if someone is gay or straight by lookg at them.
After about a the classroom, he was named the bt tor Kentucky September 2021 -- but at the same time, he said, a small but vol mory his ral town Montgomery County went after, who is gay, told ABC News that he was sgled out for actually protectg LGBTQ kids his school and their fai, which ma him a said that earlier this year, a muny member who was postg about him on social media also repeatedly went to unty school board meetgs to report predatn and so-lled child "groomg" -- a term that has bee popular nservative circl for allegatns of adults sexually manipulatg said this person, who had not named him at the board meetgs but repeatedly referenced him by name onle, also "doxxed" him and some of his stunts on Facebook by sharg their private, acrdg to Carver, he and some stunts' parents asked Montgomery County Supertennt Dr.
GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR FANS LGBTQ PRI IN VIRAL PHOTO WH DONALD TMP
"Many crics labeled the "Don't Say Gay" bill.
Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights Edutn bill -- which don't specifilly e the word "gay, " though broadly rtricts talk of sexualy and genr -- to law earlier this year rponse to "woke genr iology. "Joshua Block is a staff attorney wh the Natnal ACLU’s Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr & HIV "We need to be teachg them to read or wre, to add, to subtract, " he said -- addg that "the purpose of our schools is to te kids not to doctrate them. "This is the exact oppose of what we need, " Kryk, a gay fifth-gra teacher outsi of Tampa, told ABC News.
He intifi as gay.
CG ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN, A TEACHER OF THE YEAR LEAV THE CLASSROOM
Before the bill was passed, some Democrats unsuccsfully attempted to make more specific -- rtrictg stctn on sexual activy rather than orientatn, for though many who spoke wh ABC News said they are disappoted the law's lack of clary, some gay teachers don't see an issue wh .
Pancholy's Stonewall Honor-wng novel "The Bt at It" follows 12-year-old Rahul Kapoor, who is not only figurg out his cultural inty as an Indian-Amerin but is also jt begng to realize that he might be gay.
And so what's next: gay marriage?
‘IT’S HAD A CHILLG EFFECT’: FLORIDA TEACHERS ANX ABOUT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
Gay teacher Nikos Giannopoulos’ displayed his LGBTQ pri as he sported a rabow p and clutched a lacy fan an official photo wh Print Donald Tmp and first lady Melania Tmp. A parent plaed to the school, sayg that Bailey was “promotg the homosexual agenda, ” acrdg to urt documents.
“She’s talked about how she’s a gay teacher, a dited gay teacher, and they put her through a lot of pa, but she is hopeful that some of the provisns of the settlement will make Mansfield ISD a more tolerant place for LGBTQ people.
FIRED GAY TEACHER WS LAWSU AGAST CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND DCE
“The judge this se led that gay teachers are protected by the Constutn.
KENTUCKY’S 2022 TEACHER OF THE YEAR QUTG OVER ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN
That’s a precent that will protect every gay teacher this untry.
AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year, who is gay, says he is leavg the K-12 classroom “to make the most difference, and the discrimatn and lack of support prevent me om makg that difference. ”In May, Carver told a Congrsnal submtee that he faced discrimatn as a gay teacher and that hatred was the norm schools.