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Anti-LGBT Teachers/Bosses

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by iiimee, Jul 13, 2016.

  1. iiimee

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    Hey, so I decided to make a thread about this sort of thing since I didn't see one already up. Has anyone here had a teacher or boss who was homo or transphobic? I only made this thread because I thought of one of my teachers I had and thought others might be able to relate.
     
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    Yeah I have. Thankfully though it was only one teacher back in highschool. He was slightly anti-body modification, slightly misogynistic, and preachy when it came to his religion, but shut his mouth when it came to LGBT. ALTHOUGH somebody told me he once sent some kid to the principal's for wear a "Legalize Gay" shirt, but not sure if that's true or just a rumour.
     
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    I heard a rumour that one of my teachers were homophobic, but to this day I don't know if it was actually true. I probably won't ever find out either,since I've just graduated.

    There was also an incident a year back where another teacher told a boy that he was too young to know he's gay, but the boy didn't back down. Looking back on it, I'm pretty sure our school became more open-minded as the years have gone by (plus I think teachers learned what they should or shouldn't be saying).
     
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    Yeah, I went to Catholic school for K-8, so there were a lot of homophobic teachers there, as I'm sure you can imagine.

    Also, I have a story.

    When I was in the 8th grade, I was just beginning to come to grips with the fact that I liked girls, and that was right around the time we were beginning to learn about sex in accordance with the Bible. Our religion teacher had a whole list of stuff banned in the Bible: pornography, polygamy, incest, and... homosexuality.

    Yeah. That didn't sit so well with me.

    The homosexuality thing turned into a whole debate with our class, but even with all the students against her, our teacher still wouldn't give up her position. Eventually it ended, and I gotta say, I do respect her standing up for her beliefs til the end.

    But then that night I had a dream that she found out I was bi (that was back before I knew I was full-out gay) and she was hunting me down, trying to kill me, like full-on Nazi style.

    Needless to say, she wasn't my favorite teacher.
     
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    Sounds fun.
    I wouldn't say my school is a catholic school, but we do have to go to chapel everyday. I don't think the priest is that concerned with homosexuality though, since he often swears and he's pretty open-minded and believes in equal rights.
     
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    I work at a catholic theology library, and my boss, and some coworkers, believe that homosexuality is a mental illness, which is always fun. :confused:
     
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    Brought up by radical catholics, being forced to attend to radical catholic schools full of complete morons... They were not only anti-LGBT, they also demonized sex, which always infuriated me, and I've heard about sexual abuse towards students (not me, but others) that went unreported, or ignored, and of course remains unpunished. Most probably those criminals are still teaching at the same schools, those 'respected members of the community/society'...

    I grew up seeing kids at school getting beat up for 'being gay' and stuff like that. Homophobic remarks were said often, and accepted as 'normal' (You don't want to hear what they said about Trans...)

    At my last workplace there seemed to be a pretty 'open mind' towards LGBT... Which means people will behave when they are present, and tell stupid shit as soon as they go for coffee break. But that's the people there, of course, not the company... And there is also some coworker who went all 'I don't care if they are gay, but why do they have to go out to the streets to have a parade?! they should be more discrete about it!!' (he had to shut up as I subtly gave him a hint about the consequences of being repressed and/or insecure about his own sexuality... he shut up really quick by the way...)
     
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    I had a camp counselor ( I consider them teachers) whom I know didn't support gay marriage. However, I wouldn't go so far as to call her a homophone. My mom used to be more supportive of gays, but not anymore. She Isn't supportive of transrights. The same goes for her mom, though she's 'okay' with gays to a point and so long as she isn't related to them. Some other teachers I've had, I haven't asked. I asked this stuff a lot when I was young. I don't ask anymore. Honestly, when I comes to your teachers, it is for the best not to bring up LGBT+ issues or other 'sensitive' subjects with them to see where they stand. You don't want to get on their bad sides especially if you don't have any alternatives. The same thing would apply with your boss if you really need the job and don't have any alternatives.
     
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    You always know how to charm people, Michael! :lol:

    Luckily there were no anti-LGBT teachers in my school, actually the gym teacher later came out as lesbian (which came as a surprise to no one lol). :slight_smile:
     
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    My former co-worker claims our boss fired him for being gay. I didn't see any proof of it though. But this is why I remain closeted at work.
     
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    Yeah, one of my science teachers at Secondary. In the last school year, we had two science teachers. We had one of them teach us sex ed as well. He viewed gay relationships and sex as "pointless" and would often make jokes about drag queens and gay people.

    When we had him for sex ed, someone put up their hand and asked about safe-sex in same-sex relationships, and he laughed and asked "Why, are you gay?" in a mocking tone and the rest of the class laughed as the guy who asked that question slumped into his seat looking embarrassed. I wasn't out at the time, but a part of me wanted to stand up for that guy, but instead I just kept quiet as everybody else laughed.

    "...No, I just was curious, I mean I was wondering for um, just in case there are gay people in here, not that I'm gay 'cause I'm not, you know, who might benefit from knowing that stuff and things" He replied, or something among those lines I can't fully remember.

    He was ignored for the rest of the lesson. We learnt about the basics, waiting until marriage, don't sleep around, how to get tested, contraception... that kind of thing.

    I remember doing this exercise in sex ed, where we were given different chemicals (one for male, a different chemical for female) and split into groups and given a quick brief on some made up person (what their name was, if they were married, who they were married to, if they have had sex or not...that kind of thing) and were told which chemical to mix it with (so if we had say, Alice and had to mix it with Bob then we'd take a bit of the chemical from Bob in the Alice container).

    Our group (among with a few others) went a bit rogue though and mixed Alice's (or whatever the name was) with a bunch of female ones and some people mixed the male with the other male ones and our group failed. :grin:

    We brought up our containers and the teachers were like "What? It's not supposed to look like that!" and we admitted to mixing Alice's with Sarah's and Peter's with Greg's at one point. (I can't really remember the exact names, but you get the point). They weren't impressed. :lol:

    Near the end of the lesson, the teacher finally brought up that guy's question again since him and a few others kept asking because they felt cheated out of an answer. Eventually he sighed, and said "If you can help it, just don't have gay sex because gay sex is pointless", despite spending most of the lesson talking about condoms (and if gay sex is pointless because it doesn't produce children,why isn't male on female sex that involves condoms and the condom doesn't break and doesn't produce any kids also pointless? Hmm?). :confused:
     
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    I went to a Catholic school for grades 6-8 and there was almost no mention at all about Homosexuality. The only time I remember it being brought up was when one of my school's many religion teachers got fired for calling a student a homo.
     
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    I've had a long standing relationship with a boss of mine where I've posted about it in a previous post on the forum. We were together for a little over five years.
     
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    That's sad:frowning2: I'm sorry you've had to experience that and that a teacher would even consider saying things that could hurt students so much. Haven't had much in the way of those experiences myself. Just a few things with other people in my church. Nothing serious, just hearing conversations about it.