Last Friday night, I sat with a group of my former students at IHOP after a performance of our fall play. My current students were nearby, but the alumni got the honor of joining me for our ritual post-show celebration. Sitting with me were two gay men, a bisexual woman and a (self-proclaimed) asexual woman. Me, being the trans-lesbian drama teacher, filled out the rest of the LGBTA. Now, I understand the irony that of all my former students with me that evening, none of them were straight. And if those who think that
1)my being out and 2)my students knowing I’m out (and proudly out at that) and, worse, 3) that I am happily married to a straight woman
may just make my students more likely to not be straight or, worse, think that not being straight is perfectly acceptable well…join me after the curly thing because I think they may be right.