A battle over rabow stickers at MacArthur High School Irvg, Texas, has hobbled the Gay-Straight Alliance and left LGBTQ stunts feelg unsafe.
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A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
* english teacher gay student meme *
A search on Twter wh the words “gay” and “English teacher” will provi the pth of the meme’s reach. 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. “English teachers are the first gay alli you meet ur life, ” tweeted one er. Another, a slight variatn, said, “Yeah, yeah, gay kids and their female english teacher, what about lbians and their male science teachers, huh?????
The English teacher, as imaged the mem, is an oasis of clivy an otherwise homophobic school environment – the Miss Honey to the Miss Tnchbull, if you will. As for what says about gay people? The meme n veer unfortably close to “gifted child” terrory, an “if your English teacher scribed you as ‘a pleasure to teach’ then you’re gay now” type of thg.