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- GAY TEACHERS GROUP WELE GREATER EMPLOYMENT PROTECTN SCHOOLS
- CALIFORNIA TRIED TO BAN GAY TEACHERS 1978. EDUTORS AND ACTIVISTS WHO FOUGHT BACK FEAR HISTORY MAY BE REPEATG SELF.
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
GAY TEACHERS GROUP WELE GREATER EMPLOYMENT PROTECTN SCHOOLS
The Government today passed through Report Stage a Bill which amends Employment Equaly legislatn to protect gay teachers schools. * gay teachers group *
The Government today passed through Report Stage a Bill which amends Employment Equaly legislatn to protect gay teachers Bill will give legal protectn to LGBT teachers, so that teachers n be open about their sexual orientatn their school muni whout fear of INTO LBGT Teachers' Group mpaigns for the rights of gay teachers, the group argued that there was a chillg effect for many teachers around the untry who are aaid to e out schools.
Speakg outsi the Seanad today Chairperson of the INTO LGBT Teachers' Group Anne Marie Lillis said: "LGB teachers n be secure the knowledge that speakg about our fai and our relatnships, the same way as our lleagu and that beg gay or lbian will have no bearg on job secury or on prospects for promotn. "Deputy Chair of the Group Eileen Gamble said: "The uncertaty and fear that once prevented gay teachers om beg themselv staff rooms has been lifted and altered immeasurably.
Gay and lbian teachers n now live their liv openly their muni and the classrooms which they teach. This is historic for many current teachers and those future teachers who will never have to send gus themselv for fear of beg intified as gay.
CALIFORNIA TRIED TO BAN GAY TEACHERS 1978. EDUTORS AND ACTIVISTS WHO FOUGHT BACK FEAR HISTORY MAY BE REPEATG SELF.
The people who helped feat the Briggs Iniative told Insir they fear a recent rise anti-gay rhetoric means history may be repeatg self. * gay teachers group *
To his close iends and fay he was a young gay man a steady relatnship, while at the primary school where he worked his home life was a secret. It sentially forba schools and lol thori om acknowledgg that gay people existed, and even today high-profile s of gay teachers beg hound by relig groups create a climate of fear. Robson, who had hidn her own sexualy when she started teachg the 1980s, started the Courageo Lears programme bee she believed LGBT teachers were missg out on promotn, as they were aaid to put their heads above the year-long programme volv three days of face-to-face trag, cludg lectur, gut speakers and workshops, wh the aim of stillg learship skills and boostg nfince through sharg experienc and mutual summaris the succs a new book, Courage the Classroom, that clus chapters by lbian, gay and transgenr teachers about overg prejudice and learng to be themselv.
“Then we put on thgs such as the big gay bake sale and really took off and attracted girls of all ag and their iends, who me to support them, ” she says. “The biggt thg for me was the very first five mut of the first day when I found myself a room full of gay teachers for the first time. A California ballot iative once sought to ban openly-gay tors the late 1970s.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
But recent anti-gay legislatn, like Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, has them worried once aga. It was a simple enough goal to achieve, he figured — that is, if he kept secret an tegral part of his inty: He was gay. But amid the creasgly-hostile natnal attu toward gay rights the late 1970s, an omo wrench was thrown to Allegre's refully-laid profsnal Sen.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
John Briggs, a nservative California lawmaker om Allegre's native Orange County, troduced a ballot iative 1977 to be put to a referendum the upg state electn that would bar gay men and lbian women om workg California's public schools. The proposn, did, however, brg together a dited group of gay activists and advot who waged a hard-fought opposn mpaign agast the iative, which was formally known as California Proposn path to succs was not an easy one. Edutors and activists battled hatred, li, and homophobia om the nservative factn the state, sirs said.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
"The Briggs Iniative was the first effort to rtrict gay rights through a statewi ballot measure, but would not be the last. And the bigoted aim at the heart of the iative would ntue to rear s ugly head time and time aga the succeedg years — most recently wh the troductn of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" legislatn that sparked natnal outcry earlier this former tors and activists who were volved the effort to feat California Prop 6 spoke to Insir about the "fight of our liv, " and the worrisome parallels they see arisg more than 40 years people faced homophobia at work and the worldAllegre knew early on that he was different om his peers.
At 13, he remembers beg rnered the school stairwell by several boys on his basketball team who acced him of beg gay, mockg and chantg at him until he proceed to was the sort of experience that is achgly faiar to those who grew up queer: unique the specific nature of s celty, but intil tent. In 1975 — three years before Prop 6 would be feated — Ammiano was part of a llective effort to form a gay teacher's aln San Francis.