Gay unselor's firg at Indiana Catholic school OK'd by urt

Contents:

• THE PLIGHT OF BEG A GAY TEACHER
• GAY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATN AND FRIENDS
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• GAY TEACHERS
• GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE

THE PLIGHT OF BEG A GAY TEACHER

The Natnal Edutn Associatn Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer+ Cc was found the 1980's by a handful of NEA Members seekg to provi a means of profsnal support for gay and lbian lleagu. In rponse to numero requts, the Natnal Edutn Associatn Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer+ Cc has piled a list of age appropriate books as a rource for tors. As a gay teacher who hadn’t e out to his stunts or staff, he felt hamstng.

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.

GAY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATN AND FRIENDS

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.

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

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. "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.

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

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.

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

"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. "If a kid ever ed homophobic slurs, he’d open up the discsn.

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. "Kids and teachers need to know that someone they know is gay, that ’s not a hypothetil, that this is about real people who they know, " Bunger said "Beg visible to the kds of kids—kids who make dangero cisns bee they’re aaid to talk—is ccial.

GAY TEACHERS

"Sce Bunger began g out to his stunts, bullyg and homophobic remarks his classroom have stopped. Wele to the Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Queer+ Cc of the California Teachers Associatn (CTA-LGBTQC).

To ensure the safety of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer+ stunts and staff California public schools;. To protect the rights and terts of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer+ members of the Associatn and their supporters;.

GAY TEACHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HI WHO THEY ARE

To promote regnn of the special needs and rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer+ youth; and.

To advance unrstandg and acceptance of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer+ people all areas of society.