LGBTIQ+ Teachers

Jen Gilbert is Professor of Education at York University. Gilbert is author of Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education and collaborator on The Beyond Bullying Project, an LGBTQ+ research study in high schools. Gilbert's research focuses on LGBTQ+ students, teachers, and families; sex education; and youth studies.Emily Gray is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at RMIT's School of Education. Her scholarship provides insights into educators' lived experiences in relation to gender, sexisms, sexualities, and workplaces. Her research develops new ways of working with social theory in its application to research problems and questions, as well as within knowledge translation mechanisms.

• Introduction 1. Reflecting on ‘coming out’ in the classroom 2. LGB teachers and the (Com)Promised conditions of legislative change 3. Queer teacher to queer teacher: reflections, questions, and hopes from current and aspiring educators 4. Searching for our LGBTQ+ predecessors in Chicago Schools during the Progressive Era 5. Queer legacies and their vicissitudes: on 50 years of teaching and learning 6. Present, yet not welcomed: gender diverse teachers’ experiences of discrimination 7. The Trans Educators Network: a reflection on community organizing and knowledge production 8. The sex of it all: outness and queer women’s digital storytelling in teacher education 9. Disruptions of desexualized heteronormativity – queer identification(s) as pedagogical resources