Table of Contents
Preface
Prologue: Forget the Rest
Mzoli: Cape Town, South Africa
PART 1: SIGNS OF CHANGE
1. Coming Out for Owen
Alan Yount: New York, New York
2. Back to School
Philip de Sa e Silva: St. Paul, Minnesota
3. Teaching Trans
Ryan Ambuter: Holyoke, Massachusetts
4. Everyone Knows Now
Carmen Neely: New York, New York
5. Just the Normal Stuff
Deidre Cuffee-Gray: Springfield, Massachusetts
6. Yankee in the Southland
Patty Smith: Petersburg, Virginia
7. Saving My Voice
Andrea Fazel: Sacrament, California
8. Two Teachers in Twenty
Elisa Waters and Joey Waters: Long Island, New York
PART 2: UNEXPECTED JOURNEYS
9. A Mother’s Journey
Susan Fitzpatrick Radzilowski: Detroit, Michigan
10. Gay and Brown in Private Schools
Ashok Reddy: Anytown, California
11. Many Strands, One Thread
Steven Benoit: Basking Ridge, New Jersey
12. Coming Out at Fifty
Garth Zimmermanm: Appleton, Wisconsin
13. Finding a Way and Making One: Coming out Brown, Feminist, and Queer
Ileana Jiménez: New York, New York
14. Visibility
Erika Cobain: Saratoga, California
15. My Story of Self-Identity
Michael Chan: Fuzhou, China
16. How Far “Out” Do You Have to Be?
Dominique Gerard: Montclair, New Jersey
PART 3: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
17. Teacher of the Year
Brett Bigham: Portland, Oregon
18. The Advocate
Esih Efuru: Charlotte, North Carolina
19. Good Enough?
“Mr. G”: Bronx, New York
20. There Is Uncertainty, but There Is Also Hope
Sophie E. Gilbert: Riverdale, California
21. Questions to Self: Being a Queer Latino Educator
Benny Vásquez: New York, New York
22. We’re Not Nearly There
Duran Renkema: Rotterdam, Holland
Epilogue: Polishing Up Our Schools
Rodney Glasgow: Potomac: Maryland