Gay student and teacher
nakedfrog said:
I'm really starting to wonder if these sorts of people can't help but believe about gay sex every time they think about male lover people, and thus assume that it's that way for everyone.
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Yes, that is exactly correct. In fact, words favor "homosexual" and "gay" were not in wide use until these past 50 years. In antique times, they referred to gays as "sodomites" or "perverts." There were no "homosexuals" in those days. Just direct people with weird perversions like having sex with people of the matching sex.
I once wrote a law review article on Justice Scalia's dissent in Romer v Evans, a case proofreading the Constitutionality of Colorado's law which banned all anti-discrimination laws protecting homosexuals. Scalia's dissent was essentially this strict thing: the people discriminating are in their rights to punish behavior, he said. This has nothing to perform with someone's status, he also said. No one is punishing someone for who they are, according to him, only for what they do.
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‘I’m Afraid to Return to the Classroom': A Gay Teacher of the Year Speaks Out
Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr., was named the Kentucky Teacher of the Year and was honored at the White House this spring. But despite the accolades, he may not return to the classroom next fall.
Carver, who teaches high school and college-level French and English at Montgomery County High School in Mount Sterling, Ky., is on sabbatical this school year and is questioning his future as a teacher given the spate of anti-LGBTQ legislation across the state. He spoke to Education Week about teaching as a lgbtq+ man in rural Kentucky—and why recent efforts to restrict rights for LGBTQ students are perilous. This interview was edited for length and clarity.
I grew up Appalachian. There were moments of extreme poverty: no electricity, no running water. School was a place where we could feast. Having so many issues with violence, dependency, poverty, hopelessness—school was not that. School was a place of light and desire. My teachers not only expanded my world, but they injected it with light and passion. They gave me shoes [they bought with] their personal wealth.
I have about 100 first cousins. I was th
I’m Matthew Hay. I’m from Annapolis, Maryland.
One day, a week or so after the holidays, I had asked my group of fifth grade students in my music class how they had spent their winter break. Kids went down the row saying what types of gifts they had and which relatives they’d seen.
At the end, a student had asked me, “Mr. Hay, what did you do?”
I had answered, in the foremost of my ability, without revealing too much, “Well, I went to my in-laws and I spent some moment in northern Fresh Jersey.”
A student of mine asked me very pointedly, “What does ‘in-laws’ mean?” I explained that if you possess in-laws, that means that you’re married and it’s the family of the person you’re married to.
She asked me, “What is the name of your wife?” I told her that I have a spouse and then I tried to travel on, which I do many times. But she was feeling very insistent this particular sunlight on figuring out what the identify of my wife was. So we went back and forth, back and forth.
“What’s your wife’s name?”
“I don’t hold a wife, I have a spouse.”
“What’s your wife – you said spouse. Well, that’s the same thing as a wife.”
Eventually I lost patience and I said, “He is my spouse and he is not my wife.” The
Teacher: I Was Fired for Being Gay. Now It Can’t Happen to Anyone Else
The simple truth of the recent U.S. Supreme Court case of Bostock v. Clayton County is that, for the first time ever, it has been ruled that all people in the Combined States have equal-employment protections. There may not yet be true equality in this country, but we are equal on sheet for the very first time.
When I was born in 1964, Illinois was the only state that did not have an anti-sodomy law that criminalized gay relationships. Some states kept these laws until they were overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003. As a trainee, I never heard a teacher say a positive thing about lesbian, bi, gay, or transgender people. But as my possess high school graduation loomed, an incredibly brave lecturer taught me one of the most valuable lessons I have ever learned from a teacher: how to step up when students are in danger.
As AIDS burned its way across the country, he found the bravery to warn a friend of mine of the growing epidemic and urged my friend to share the information with me. In 1982, in my conservative ultra-Christian Oregon town, this teacher risked everything to keep us safe. I’m probably ali