This landmark book empowers educators to become visible, positive influences and role models for gay and lesbian students in their classrooms and schools. As most homosexual educators, and even students, remain invisible due to possible hostilities of “coming out,” this eye-opening book presents recent research to help gay and lesbian teachers break their silence. It encourages them to speak out on issues of homosexuality where curricula, civil rights, personal freedoms, and social entitlements are concerned. It promotes the development of school-based intervention for gay, lesbian, and bisexual students.While the controversy over education and homosexuality is one of the most personally threatening in this nation’s history, the timely research presented in Coming Out of the Classroom Closet will hearten gay and lesbian educators to continue to strive for fair treatment as peers and for equal representation in educational materials. Pointing to reports of greater social support and legal protection than is assumed by most in the educational system, this book should be required reading for all persons concerned about continuing to provide high-quality education at all levels--college and university, secondary, and even elementary.Chapters of Coming Out of the Classroom Closet look closely at many issues surrounding the issue of homosexuality in schools, including a history of treatment of gay and lesbian educators and their legal rights; effects of internalized homophobia on homosexual educators; gay and lesbian student’s perceptions of their counselors and teachers ability to understand and help; beliefs, lack of knowledge, and lack of training of counselors and teachers about the needs of gay and lesbian youth; images of gays and lesbians in sexuality and health textbooks; important AIDS education; and the issue of homophobia.
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Being gay really is gay!Before I found this book, I was likethe proverbial lost sheep. Trying to fit in with those who did notshare my sexual orrientation, and compensating through body piercing and outrageous hair styles. People began to tease me about being gay! How close to the mark they came! This book is informative and interesting, and it has given me the tools that I can use to break down that closet door -- and join the party!
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feelings toward lesbians, lesbian physical educators, homosexual educators, high grade homophobics, lesbian educators, gay educators, educator identities, credential revocation, sexuality textbooks, bisexual young people, feelings about homosexuality, homosexual students, sexual minority youth, sexuality texts, lesbian topics, bisexual youth, prospective teachers, attitudes about homosexuality, homophobic feelings, health textbooks, homosexual teachers, bisexual adolescents, lesbian teachers, teacher dismissal, less negative attitudes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Journal of Homosexuality, The Haworth Press, San Francisco, Dissertation Abstracts International, Fairfax High School, University of Massachusetts, Index of Homophobia, Los Angeles, Miss Huggins, South Carolina, State Board of Education, Oberlin College, Stanford University, Clark University, Gay Bi Man, Hetero Man, Hetero Woman, Journal of Social Issues, Quest Man, Quest Woman, Dade County, Penn State, Santa Cruz New!
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Over the past few decades our society has experienced radical social and technological change. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feelings toward lesbians, lesbian physical educators, homosexual educators, high grade homophobics, lesbian educators, gay educators, educator identities, credential revocation, sexuality textbooks, bisexual young people, feelings about homosexuality, homosexual students, sexual minority youth, sexuality texts, lesbian topics, bisexual youth, prospective teachers, attitudes about homosexuality, homophobic feelings, health textbooks, homosexual teachers, bisexual adolescents, lesbian teachers, teacher dismissal, less negative attitudes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Journal of Homosexuality, The Haworth Press, San Francisco, Dissertation Abstracts International, Fairfax High School, University of Massachusetts, Index of Homophobia, Los Angeles, Miss Huggins, South Carolina, State Board of Education, Oberlin College, Stanford University, Clark University, Gay Bi Man, Hetero Man, Hetero Woman, Journal of Social Issues, Quest Man, Quest Woman, Dade County, Penn State, Santa Cruz New!
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- Coming Out of the Classroom Closet: Gay and Lesbian Students, Teachers, and Curricula (Journal of Homosexuality Series) by Karen M Harbeck in Front Matter, page 9, and page 141
- Human Sexuality (5th Edition) by William Masters on page 210, and page 244
- Commentaries on the Laws of England (Vol. 4) by William Blackstone on page 137
- in Front Matter
- Human Rights by Ellen Frankel Paul on page 63
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