This inaugural volume of the new book series, Research in Queer Studies is a collection of memoirs or short narrative essays in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer PK-12 teachers and/or administrators (either “out” or “not out”) recount their personal experiences as a queer teachers. The authors of these stores write about significant experiences that describe how their sexual identity has shaped who they are today as teachers/administrators, by answering the following questions:
• In light of your sexual identity, how did you become who you are today?
• Why did you decide to become a teacher? What role did your sexual identity play in that decision?
• What kinds of significant moments, including queer issues (e.g., bullying) regarding students and/or yourself, have you experience in your teaching?
• In light of who you are as an individual, what do you hope to achieve and become as a queer teacher in the future?
Introduction, Hidehiro Endo and Paul Chamness Miller.
- Section I. Teacher and Queer Identities.
- Chapter 1. Memoir of a Teacher, Jonathan Shiller.
- Chapter 2. Are You Married? Ryan.
- Chapter 3. Gaying Up the Teacher: From Ungay Teaching to a Gay Curriculum, Arthur T. Costigan.
- Chapter 4. Queer Teacher: A Portrait of Masking, Robert Durocher.
- Chapter 5. What Kind of Teacher Are You? Hilary Lustick.
- Chapter 6. Now, We're Going to Make a Family Tree: My Journey Out of the Closet, Sarah Moon.
- Chapter 7. The Politics of Who I Am Now, Bianca D'Allesandro.
- Section II. Celebrating Diversity, Accepting Differences.
- Chapter 8. Embracing Visibility, Rebecca Mui.
- Chapter 9. Shame, Jonah Frank.
- Chapter 10. Oil, Water, and Masculinity: A Story of a Gender Nonconformist in Texas, Michael A. Thorson, Jr.
- Chapter 11. This Time as Mr. Berkley, Sam Berkley.
- Chapter 12. The Right Path Is Not Always Straight, Michelle Lee.
- Section III. Hear Me Out: Being Proud of Who I Am.
- Chapter 13. One of These Teachers Is Not Like the Other, Jennifer Rosenbaum.
- Chapter 14. Looking, Learning, Longing: Queer E/Affects of Images, Bob Phillips.
- Chapter 15. Sensitivity, Tonya Jarrell.
- Chapter 16. Moments of Truth, Emily.
- Chapter 17. Student, Educator, Mother, and Advocate, Becky L. Bridgman.
- Chapter 18. The Calm After the Storm, José A. García.
- Chapter 19. Kaleidoscopic Musings on a Queer Praxis, Adrian D. Martin.
- Section IV. Out Advocate for the LGBTQ Community.
- Chapter 20. Make a Difference, Change a Life, Maree A. Bednar.
- Chapter 21. By Any Other Name: From Silence to Selfhood, Karen Zaino.
- Chapter 22. The Fighter, Terence P. Friedrichs.
- Chapter 23. From Finding Myself to Founding Alliance, Tina Owen.
- About the Authors.