The school board never publicly said why. My district fired the superintendent only the week before reinstating me. He didn’t see a future he could live with. I’m thankful for that, because it was the last thing I said to him. I can’t remember everything I said, but I know I told him I loved him. When I was 15, my best friend came out to me. I personally know the costs of those statistics. I want students to see these normal futures because I have seen the suicide rates of LGBT students. It might be the only time in their K-12 school experience when a student sees that gay people have normal lives with dogs and barbecues in the backyard. As a gay man, I can make the life of Ls, Gs, Bs, and Ts better by having a picture of my family on my desk.
But I knew I couldn’t stay in the classroom closet. Shortly after I became the Oregon State Teacher of the Year in 2014, I was fired for not being able to keep my mouth shut after my school warned me not to say in public that I was gay. A bunch of really angry kindergarten teachers. All across my state, teachers stood up in opposition. You can’t be a teacher.” In my first year of teaching in 1992, an Oregon right-wing religious group very nearly succeeded in passing a ballot measure that could have been used to remove LGBT people from their teaching positions. When I told my mother I was going to be a teacher she said, “You are gay. In 1982, in my conservative ultra-Christian Oregon town, this teacher risked everything to keep us safe.
But as my own high school graduation loomed, an incredibly brave teacher taught me one of the most valuable lessons I have ever learned from a teacher: how to step up when students are in danger.Īs 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. As a student, I never heard a teacher say a positive thing about lesbian, bisexual, gay, or transgender people. Some states kept these laws until they were overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003. When I was born in 1964, Illinois was the only state that did not have an anti-sodomy law that criminalized gay relationships.
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