The way a teacher perceiv relatnal jtice—the feelg of beg treated equably and beg clud— their work ntext is central to unrstandg the negotiatn and enactment of teacher inty. For LGBTQ teachers, the gree to which they are out of the closet wh their stunts and lleagu leads to many possible out. The out, rangg om feelg like they need to live duplico liv to beg activist teachers that subvert the heteronormative assumptns schools and curricula, are studied here by examg the inty velopment of a group of gay teachers and their perceptns of the schools which they work. This article is based on a dissertatn study that theorized that the heteronormative nature of teacher tn is a limg factor for gay teachers’ abili to work and thrive school ntexts. The study clud pth se studi of four gay teachers and their journeys as gay men and teachers. The goal of the study was to answer the qutn: Do the enactment of gay teacher inty terpt heteronormativy schools? The study also sought to answer two ancillary qutns: (1) How do gay teachers negotiate gay teacher inty schools? and, (2) How do school ntexts impact gay teachers’ perceptns of inty-based motivatn and relatnal jtice? This article will foc on Peter Ryan’s (psdonym) se study, specifilly bee of s emblematic nature summarizg the tent and implitns of the overall study.
Contents:
- ‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT
- THE PLIGHT OF BEG A GAY TEACHER
- UNRSTANDG INTY AND CONTEXT THE DEVELOPMENT OF GAY TEACHER INTY: PERCEPTNS AND REALI TEACHER EDUTN AND TEACHG
- A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT
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Durg Kristal Torr’s sophomore year of high school, she transferred om an all-girls Catholic school to a ed public high school. “I grew up an upper middle class, relig area Oh where didn't really feel like gay people existed. I had iends theater who were gay, but I didn't see any exampl of what life would be like as a gay adult.
It wasn't until I was llege and had profsors who were gay that I really had any picture of what was like to be a gay adult a regular relatnship wh a fay.”.
“This year I've been very openly out wh stunts, but a lot of that was motivated by my first year of teachg where I was tryg to bat issu of homophobia and transphobia. His mom lled him “flamboyant.” I did a home vis where I spoke to the mom and I remember tellg her that I was actually gay and I thk really helped her and ma her feel more relieved. 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.
THE PLIGHT OF BEG A GAY TEACHER
A battle over rabow stickers at MacArthur High School Irvg, Texas, has hobbled the Gay-Straight Alliance and left LGBTQ stunts feelg unsafe. * gay teacher teaching punctuation *
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. I'm a proud gay man, I am the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, and I'm aaid to return to the classroom.
In 1978, the state of California proposed a law—a ballot measure wily known as the Briggs Iniative—which would've prohibed openly gay and lbian teachers om workg the state’s public schools.
In five stat—Indiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Virgia—gay people n get legally married but also legally fired by an employer for beg gay, a Washgton Post map shows. In San Bernado, California, for example, a lbian teacher challenged her school district urt wh help om the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, allegg that she was fired after attemptg to help the school’s Gay Straight Alliance chapter.
UNRSTANDG INTY AND CONTEXT THE DEVELOPMENT OF GAY TEACHER INTY: PERCEPTNS AND REALI TEACHER EDUTN AND TEACHG
Jam R. Kg, The (Im)possibily of Gay Teachers for Young Children, Theory Into Practice, Vol. 43, No. 2, Sexual Inti and Schoolg (Sprg, 2004), pp. 122-127 * gay teacher teaching punctuation *
"In the years before I had tenure, there was no way I was gog to let someone’s else’s homophobia jeopardize my reer, " Bunger said. "Even teachers stat wh legal protectn worry that homophobic school lears n still fd a way to fire them regardls. "My stunts mostly e om Caribbean scent, where homosexualy is tradnally owned upon, " said Lamar Shambley, a sixth-gra math teacher New York who hasn’t e out to his stunts.
"Paranoia surroundg LGBT teachers part trac back to unfound theori lkg homosexualy and pedophilia.
Although the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and numero other rearch anizatns have nclud that homosexualy do not make someone more likely to sexually abe children, Conservative anizatns such the Fay Rearch Council and the Amerin College of Pediatricians—a group that requir s members to "hold te to the group's re beliefs of the tradnal fay un" before jog—argue that homosexualy is a threat to uld help expla why LGBT teachers who are married or mted relatnships sometim enjoy a level of legimacy and acceptance that sgle gay teachers often fail to secure.
A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
Kerry H. Robson, Tania Ferfolja, 'What Are We Dog This for?' Dealg wh Lbian and Gay Issu Teacher Edutn, Brish Journal of Soclogy of Edutn, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Mar., 2001), pp. 121-133 * gay teacher teaching punctuation *
"The more [homosexualy] n f to the schema that people already have about fai, the easier is for others to unrstand... Beg gay and sgle and not relatg to people’s notns of fay is harr and somehow not as easy to tst. "But even people wh generally tolerant views toward homosexualy sometim qutn the necsy of g out, particularly a school settg.
"But many LGBT teachers argue that nversatns about personal matters do happen classrooms all the time, that 's only bee society promot heterosexualy—vers homosexualy—as normal that discsns related to a teacher's sexual orientatn are kept out of class, of Teach for Ameri, agre that for herself and her lleagu, beg the closet wh an extra layer of work—and strs.
Bunger also me out after earng tenure, spired by a fellow gay teacher who never had any qualms about discsg his sexual orientatn wh his stunts. Overall, the strs experienced by LGBT youth also put them at greater risk for mental health problems and substance e: A natnal study om 2008 found that lbian, gay, and bisexual youth are more than twice as likely to attempt suici as their heterosexual peers. "If we ever want to get to a place where people aren’t beg killed for who they are, ’s important that stunts know people who are gay and are learng that difference isn’t herently threateng, " Lazar said.