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Subject(s)

• Homosexuality and education—United States [Browse]
• Gay youth—Education—United States [Browse]

Series

• Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.) [More in this series]
• Multicultural education series

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-131) and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Necessary tensions
• Layers of responsibility and professional sources for justification for nondiscrimination
• Students' rights to expression, privacy, and association
• Preparing teachers and leaders to be advocates
• 1. Background to LGBTQ movements for equality with a focus on k-12 related issues
• Key definitions, often in flux and contested
• Opening the subject of sexuality and gender through theory, history, and political movements
• Overlapping histories of LGBTQ movements
• Schools and the histories of gender identity and sexual orientation
• 2. Thinking through biases and assumptions about LGBTQ people
• Gender as process
• Sexuality, normalcy, and intersecting differences
• Transphobia in schools
• Queer relationalities
• 3. Specific school-related challenges facing LGBTQ students
• Intersecting harassments and biases
• LGBTQ youth and the challenges of accessing education
• Resituating "bullying" in sexual harassment
• Another form of "not" education: "you can't say gay" policies
• Recognizing family diversity: LGBTQ-headed households and school exclusion
• Living in families under public debate: legal and social contexts
• 4. Educatively addressing LGBTQ issues
• Zero tolerance and exacerbating distance
• Sex and non-sex
• Critical queer thinking and queer disciplines
• Religious tensions
• Teaching and learning for ethical relations
• 5. Supporting student extracurricular and creative efforts to educate schools on LGBTQ issues
• Gay-straight alliances and associations across difference
• Gay-straight alliances and the Equal Access Act
• Attempts to restrict gay-straight alliances
• The day of silence: resistance and reconciliation (hopefully)
• LGBTQ youth and public spaces
• 6. LGBTQ online communities and support
• LGBTQ digital divides
• LGBTQ youth, cyber presence, and intentional community
• Critical media literacy and cyber normalization
• The link made flesh
• Retooling and reassembling.

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Other title(s)

• Lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer youth and education
• LGBTQ youth & education

ISBN

• 9780807754887 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0807754889 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780807754894 (hard cover : alk. paper)
• 0807754897 (hard cover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013032584

OCLC

858898687

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