Classrooms tend to be absolute spaces, places where fluidity is rejected and nearly everything--from people, to ideas, to practices and policies--is viewed and organized through binary logic. Because binary logic is implicitly accepted as the natural order in schools and the structures resulting from it are highly unmalleable, individuals who…

It is not easy to "come out" as a teacher, particularly at the middle school level. The overwhelming reason to come out is to make school a safer place for youth who know, think, or fear they are lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Adolescence is hard enough without positive role models for every aspect of who one is or is striving to become.…

In conducting a study on the programmatic experiences of lesbian and bisexual preservice teachers, narratives of the silenced identity categories of participants led researchers to consider more queer approaches in their own research practices. In this article, we use queer theory and autoethnography to explore what queer research in teacher…

In this article, the author describes how he successfully taught gay rights in his middle school class. He also relates how he finally came out with his real sexuality to his students. He also describes how a stuttering student named Malcolm explained to one of his classmate the reason why his teacher felt a need to reveal his true sexuality. An…

A student who confesses he is gay and a teacher who must hide her sexual identity make us question how much has changed in the past few years and what we need to do hasten change now. (Contains 8 resources.)