School's Out: Gay and Lesbian Teachers in the Classroom Contemporary An even more formidable foe

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School's Out: Gay and Lesbian Teachers in the Classroom Contemporary An even more formidable foeHow do gay and lesbian teachers negotiate their professional and sexual identities at work, given that these identities are constructed as mutually exclusive, even as mutually opposed? Using interviews and other ethnographic materials from Texas and California, School's Out explores how teachers struggle to create a classroom persona that balances who they are and what's expected of them in a climate of pervasive homophobia. Catherine Connell's