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Contents:

• EXCLUSIVE: AWARD-WNG GAY TEACHER SPEND FOR SPEAKG OUT AGAST TRANSGENRISM
• 27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH
• WATCH – TEACHERS BRAG ABOUT LGBT INDOCTRATN: ‘MY CLASSROOM IS ONE OF THE GAYT PLAC PROBABLY ON THE PLA’
• VIRAL MEMO LETTG FLORIDA TEACHERS KNOW HOW TO TROLL 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW IS PURE FIRE
• BEG GAY AT SCHOOL REMAS DIFFICULT FOR TEACHERS
• GAY SUBSTUTE TEACHER SAYS HE WAS FIRED AFTER HANDG OUT PRI BRACELETS TO STUNTS
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• GAY TEACHER MEME GENERATOR
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
• GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE

EXCLUSIVE: AWARD-WNG GAY TEACHER SPEND FOR SPEAKG OUT AGAST TRANSGENRISM

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A gay fifth gra teacher Glendale, California, was placed on leave after plag at a school board meetg that his school promot transgenrism.

In an exclive terview, Shelton, who is gay, told The Daily Signal that his tent speakg at the Glendale school board’s April 18 meetg was to speak what he lled “basic, monsense tths.

27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH

Transgenr iology is anti-gay, is anti-woman, and is anti-human. It wants to take away women’s sports, women’s rights, women’s achievements— is misogyny wr I n also say this as a gay man, the gay people …. Shelton also alleg that Hagop Eulmsekian, Glendale’s director of stunt support servic, asslted him by rippg several “gay pri flags” out of his hand.

WATCH – TEACHERS BRAG ABOUT LGBT INDOCTRATN: ‘MY CLASSROOM IS ONE OF THE GAYT PLAC PROBABLY ON THE PLA’

Another exprsed his light revealg his sexual orientatn to his stunts, explag that he halted his teachg to answer qutns “about beg gay.

VIRAL MEMO LETTG FLORIDA TEACHERS KNOW HOW TO TROLL 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW IS PURE FIRE

“My classroom is one of the gayt plac probably on the pla, ” one dividual clared. Republin Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may have signed the state's so-lled "Don't Say Gay" legislatn to law, but Florida teachers aren't takg stg down.

1648833749The "Don't Say Gay" bill, which is actually lled the Parental Rights Edutn bill, got s nickname bee of s opaquely word prohibn of discsn of genr and sexualy krgarten through third gra. 1648842650Remember when DeSantis and others sisted that this wasn't homophobic but would be applied equally to heteronormative ntent? When Jonathan beme a teacher, he wanted to be open about his sexualy, but a school where sual e of the word "gay" as a put-down was mon, he wasn't sure if was a good ia.

About a year to his time at the school, a group of female pupils asked if he was gay and he said 'y' first thgs were fe, and Jonathan felt he was able to help pupils who were qutng their own sexualy. But the homophobic language ntued – some of which was directed at him personally.

BEG GAY AT SCHOOL REMAS DIFFICULT FOR TEACHERS

I had to challenge homophobic language each and every lson.

"Jonathan left the school a year later, and says the homophobia he experienced was part of the reason for his parture.

His experienc echo the fdgs of a rearch report rried out earlier this year by the gay equaly anisatn Stonewall, The School Report, which found that 96% of gay pupils had heard homophobic language such as "poof" or "lezza" at school – behavur that often go unchallenged by teachers.

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

Acrdg to equaly mpaigners, havg openly homosexual teachers n provi both gay and straight young people wh role mols, but all too often they lack the support they need om senr learship teams and lleagu. Sue Sanrs of Schools Out, a chary that promot equaly for LGBT people tn, timat that as few as 20% of gay teachers are "out" to their pupils.

"The legacy of Sectn 28 – the ntroversial legislatn that banned the "promotn" of homosexualy schools – lgers on, even ne years after s removal, says Streetg, pecially given how many current teachers traed and first tght that Dellenty, the puty head of Aled Salter primary school south-east London, whose succsful anti-homophobic bullyg programme has attracted the attentn of the Department for Edutn, says fear of backlash, and a lack of trag, are the ma reasons behd some school lears' unwillgns to support LGBT teachers and tackle homophobia. Outright prejudice, along wh a ntug misnceptn society that lks gay men workg schools and paedophilia, n also play a part, he says.

"Heads are worried that parents and ernors will thk they are promotg homosexualy. After some ial "uurgh" nois, they began their own dialogue about what beg gay meant, wh one girl explag to her classmat that simply meant "a man and a man" stead of a man and a woman, rells a few months later, problems began to surface.

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

"Trag has a val role to play, says Dellenty, who has been workg wh the Natnal College for School Learship (NCSL), the profsnal velopment body for heads, cludg liverg a workshop for school lears on overg the issu that prevent them om rpondg to homophobia.

"You have a much easier relatnship wh stunts when they feel you have a human si, and if you don't tell them you're gay 's really difficult to talk about your life, bee you n't jt talk about your hband or wife, " he the ndns need to be right, says Suran Dickson, whose anisatn, Diversy Role Mols, works wh schools to unter negative stereotyp. "You need senr learship on your si; you need to know they have said there's no place for homophobia the school.

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

"Tips for school lears Lead om the top, and go back to basics: have clear and promoted polici on the issue Enforce the le that all stanc of homophobic language – cludg g "gay" as a pejorative term – mt be challenged, and ensure pupils and teachers unrstand why 's wrong Don't tolerate homophobia by staff, who should be provid wh trag on how to al wh homophobia and support LGBT pupils Make clear to LGBT staff that they have your support if they want to be open about their sexualy, and that any negative reactns will be alt wh swiftly and clearly Involve pupils the velopment and sign of anti-bullyg policiW Streetg, head of tn at Stonewall. 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. WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman.

Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person.

“The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people. A search on Twter wh the words “gay” and “English teacher” will provi the pth of the meme’s reach.

GAY TEACHER MEME GENERATOR

And that msage is that English teachers n work to make their classrooms affirmg and lovg spac for stunts even when broar school stctur rema entrenched wh homo-, trans-, bi-, and queerphobia. Too often, cisgenr, whe gay male narrativ bee a stand- for “LGBTQ texts, ” th erasg the diversy of LGBTQ muni.

The Homo Sapiens Agenda and s cematic adaptatn Love, Simon are worthy of space classrooms, but they nnot be the sole texts. 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.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

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. “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.

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

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. “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. "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.

GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE

I am gay! For Damon Zuima, a former K–8 mic tor, was important for his stunts to know that he is gay and for his admistratn to be supportive of his cisn to share so openly wh his class.

When asked if he felt prsure to hi his sexualy to his stunts, Connor Schmidt, a primary school teacher Beijg who is openly gay, shared:.