How Two Students’ Warmth and Support Helped Me Come Out at School
It’s National Coming Out Day. It may not be apparent that there are many places to come out if you are LGBTQ. There’s your family, your friends and also your workplace. For years, I was out with my...
View ArticleAffirming Our LGBTQ+ Educators Is Essential to Fighting Prejudice
I have long since forgiven the eighth-grader who, during my first year as a school counselor, called me a “f-ggot.” But I could never forget what that jarring moment taught me about the importance of...
View ArticleThere Are Small Things We Can Do Every Day to Make Our LGBT Students Feel Safe
The same four students hang out together in front of my classroom most mornings. One set is female and the other male. I do not have these students in my classes, and they have never participated in...
View ArticleMaybe My Friend Mark Wouldn’t Have Committed Suicide If Someone Had Shown Him...
When Education Post asked me to write something for Pride I had to sit down and think. And think. Then I tossed and turned in bed and now I find myself sitting in front of my computer in the middle of...
View ArticleI Felt Invisible in School, But I Teach So My LGBTQ+ Students Can Have the...
If you look up the word “visibility” in the dictionary, you get quite a few definitions including, “The ability to see or be seen.” When I was 12 years old, I remember feeling invisible because of my...
View ArticleWhy We Need LGBTQ+ Curricula
In 2018, GLSEN’s national school climate study indicated that 59.5% of LGBTQ students “felt unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation and 44.6% felt unsafe because of their gender...
View ArticleTo Support Your LGBTQ+ Students, Love Them and Give Them Someone to Look Up To
Every student deserves a role model with whom they can relate. For many students, literature and curriculum are resources they can use to find role models at school. However, many LGBTQ+ students...
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It’s a Dangerous Time to Come Out at School. And That’s Why We Must.
Every single teacher reading this needs to come out today. You straight teachers might be asking yourself, “Who me?” Yes, you. I want you to come out today as an ally. I invite you to stand at your...
View ArticleHow Two Students’ Warmth and Support Helped Me Come Out at School
It’s National Coming Out Day. It may not be apparent that there are many places to come out if you are LGBTQ. There’s your family, your friends and also your workplace. For years, I was out with my...
View ArticleAffirming Our LGBTQ+ Educators Is Essential to Fighting Prejudice
I have long since forgiven the eighth-grader who, during my first year as a school counselor, called me a “f-ggot.” But I could never forget what that jarring moment taught me about the importance of...
View ArticleThere Are Small Things We Can Do Every Day to Make Our LGBT Students Feel Safe
The same four students hang out together in front of my classroom most mornings. One set is female and the other male. I do not have these students in my classes, and they have never participated in...
View ArticleMaybe My Friend Mark Wouldn’t Have Committed Suicide If Someone Had Shown Him...
When Education Post asked me to write something for Pride I had to sit down and think. And think. Then I tossed and turned in bed and now I find myself sitting in front of my computer in the middle of...
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This Out and Proud Teacher Could Make History if Elected to the Texas State...
Michelle Palmer, a longtime Houston community activist and education leader, might soon make history as the first openly LGBTQ+ teacher elected to the Texas State Board of Education. But she perhaps...
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