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
Sexuality, normalcy, and intersecting differences
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
Critical queer thinking and queer disciplines
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 youth, cyber presence, and intentional community
Critical media literacy and cyber normalization
Retooling and reassembling.
