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1) Mama's boy, preacher's son: a memoir

Author

Jennings, Kevin

Publisher

Beacon Press

Pub. Date

c2006

Language

English

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The author recalls growing up poor in the South, the son of a fundamentalist preacher and a self-taught mother, describing his discovery of a world beyond poverty where he could live openly as a gay man, and the need to hide his identity in his career asa teacher.

2) One teacher in ten in the new millennium: LGBT educators speak out about what's gotten better and what hasn't

Publisher

Beacon Press

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

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"Perhaps no profession is as challenging for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people than teaching. Working under constant suspicion arising from the long-held stereotype of LGBT people as pedophiles who are "after your kids," teachers who are LGBT face enormous challenges. The third edition of One Teacher in Ten allows LGBT educators to speak in their own voices about their experience of being LGBT in schools. Following on two volumes...