Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer.
Contents:
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- RSIA'S GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLTEACHERS IN THE CROSSHAIRS
- ‘I DON’T BLAME ANY TEACHER FOR NOT G OUT AS GAY’
- THE PLIGHT OF BEG A GAY TEACHER
- ‘IT’S HAD A CHILLG EFFECT’: FLORIDA TEACHERS ANX ABOUT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * are there gay teachers *
Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Whilst protected by equaly laws, lbian gay and bisexual (LGB) teachers have varyg experienc wh Uned Kgdom schools. Schools are predomantly heteronormative, moreover LGB has been posned as nflict wh disurs of childhood nocence. However, recently there is more expectatn of cln of diverse genr and sexuali. Although how this is enacted is nsistent wh and between schools. By drawg on terview data nducted 2020, this rearch analys the experienc of LGB teachers. Moreover, brgs together two bodi of lerature that do not often speak to each other—rearch that explor teacher inty and rearch that centers LGB teacher inty. Fdgs suggt there are monali between the bodi of rearch, for stance around the importance of ‘beg yourself’ and of teachers’ past experienc. However, there is special signifince for LGB teachers whose inti have historilly been nied schools, bee of their sexual inty. In addn, there is the expectatn unr neoliberalism of dividuals actng cln. As such, the LGB teacher may bee a pedagogil rource. None of this is equally available, although marketized notns of diversy place rponsibily onto the dividual. In their actns, the LGB teacher inty is always profsnal, personal and polil. * are there gay teachers *
“One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man.
The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak.
RSIA'S GAY-FRIENDLY SCHOOLTEACHERS IN THE CROSSHAIRS
A St. Petersburg schoolteacher is battlg to keep her job after g unr fire for participatg gay-rights monstratns. At least three more teachers have been harassed this year over their ti to the gay muny amid a wing antigay mpaign Rsia. * are there gay teachers *
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. "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.
‘I DON’T BLAME ANY TEACHER FOR NOT G OUT AS GAY’
"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.
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?
Most famoly the UK, this harmful rhetoric was prent Sectn 28 the 1988 Lol Government Act which stated, ‘a lol thory shall not … promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy’ (Department of Edutn and Science. For example, Lee (2019) found that LGB teachers who tght unr Sectn 28 are ls likely to tervene homophobic bullyg. More specifilly, post Equaly Act 2010 the UK ernment troduced homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic anti-bullyg strategi and polici to schools.
THE PLIGHT OF BEG A GAY TEACHER
Inty is an anizg element (du Gay, 2007), that allows teachers to make sense of themselv relatn to their profsn (MacLure, 1993; Bechamp and Thomas, 2009). Lbian gay and bisexual teacher inty.
Alsup, however, do not explore the lived experienc of lbian, gay or bisexual teachers. Recent rearch by Rudoe (2018) furthers the ias by acknowledgg that many lbian and gay teachers have bee more fortable beg open wh their lleagu about their sexual inty, but not wh their stunts.
Furthermore, acknowledg that inty is an anizg tegory, through s discursive nstctn (du Gay, 2007). The majory of the participants also intified as gay or lbian, wh a small number as bisexual, or queer2.
‘IT’S HAD A CHILLG EFFECT’: FLORIDA TEACHERS ANX ABOUT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
Furthermore, was evint om the terviews that the participants uld be read as largely homonormative (Duggan, 2002). There was largely homogeney around race and ethnicy, wh the vast majory of participants beg whe Brish or Irish.