Gay Teacher Forced to Rign After Beg Outed by Blackmailer - Metro Weekly

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• TEACHER: I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY. NOW IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE
• A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
• BEG GAY AT SCHOOL REMAS DIFFICULT FOR TEACHERS
• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
• GAY TEACHER FORCED TO RIGN AFTER BEG OUTED BY BLACKMAILER

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

I found out I'm gog to be my school's first openly gay teacher.

I never had any openly gay tors until my fal year of llege. I never advertised like, "Hey everyone, I'm GAY! Course evals would often say that my openns 1) showed a realistic reprentatn of what meant to be gay, and 2) ma other queer/closeted stunts feel more fortable about who they were.

But to be hont, I don't know for sure, bee you're gog to be our first openly gay teacher.

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

You're gog to be impactful for our stunts, pecially those who are gay themselv or who are closeted and feel like they have no one to talk to. If I'm tly the first openly gay teacher, I have the opportuny to make a posive impact. I teach Gra 8, and I am gay, and today one of the “ol guys” ma me cry tears of pri.

I am gay, and my stunts have known this for about a month or so. The artist is rappg about growg up gay, about the stggl of beg gay, and about standg up the face of hatred and homophobia.

BEG GAY AT SCHOOL REMAS DIFFICULT FOR TEACHERS

And there’s Harry, proudly watchg along wh the rt of the class as the artist stands up for those gay kids who stggle, and the vio shows a difficult, lonely life culmatg a fabulo weddg.

Tl;dr: Tough kid my class showed a mic vio whose msage is to stand up agast homophobia, and the class cheered. Nervo about beg a gay elementary teacher. I don’t look or act “stereotypilly gay” and nobody would ever gus, but I do have a really hard time wh the ia that a parent or member of faculty may one day happen upon a picture of my wife and create trouble.

Neher of are gay (NOT sayg 's bad, 's jt that we n't be gay bee of our morals. I jt would like to emphasize about the gay suatn is that the morals I have is based of relig beliefs which I know I firmly believe , not bee I’ve been told to believe them. But there’s nothg wrong wh beg gay at all.

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

Gay NSFW subredds. An enlighteng Redd thread asks stunts for exampl of their most homophobic school experienc, and the rpons range om chillg to spirg. “I remember the 6th gra my teacher said beg gay was disgtg and an abomatn, ” wr the origal poster.

And general, y, thgs are different — but here and there, ltle pockets of homophobia rema.

In high school, (2000 Hoton Texas), my prcipal wouldn’t let me start a GSA bee he “wouldn’t allow a gay datg club on mp”. My macho chvistic spanish teacher had brought his guar to class and was sgg tradnal folk songs om Spa, when sudnly he stopped, looked right at me, and said that havg the men the class look at him while he was sgg ma him unfortable, and Spa that would be somethg that only homosexuals did. You dont want to look gay”.

GAY TEACHER FORCED TO RIGN AFTER BEG OUTED BY BLACKMAILER

There may not yet be te equaly this untry, but we are equal on paper for the very first I was born 1964, Illois was the only state that did not have an anti-sodomy law that crimalized gay relatnships. As a stunt, I never heard a teacher say a posive thg about lbian, bisexual, gay, or transgenr people.

I’m probably alive today bee of I told my mother I was gog to be a teacher she said, “You are gay.

Gay teachers. Shortly after I beme the Oregon State Teacher of the Year 2014, I was fired for not beg able to keep my mouth shut after my school warned me not to say public that I was gay. As a gay man, I n make the life of Ls, Gs, Bs, and Ts better by havg a picture of my fay on my sk.