As for stand up and be yourself, I totally agree. My Harris stickers and buttons are not coming off my car or my clothes till we get someone decent in the White House.

It's not like you. I think gay people will have a harder time than straight people. But I am with you, I support you, and I'll be doing what I can on my end.

that is over. I wasn't all that enamoured of them but I did like having some idea of the news and they were easy to get both at home and on sirius. I will be looking for a replacement, for now I am listening to music in the morning on the way to work.

off the situation. I'm preparing for the worst, and beyond that trying to ignore it and hope for the best. Or at least safety for my loved ones.

due to just being disgusted but most other ones I just cut back not eliminated like I did Morning Joe.

You sound familiar.

Choruses are Triangle Gay Men's Chorus (Raleigh) and Greater Greenville Queer Chorus (Greenville NC).

She's a gay music teacher who lives in a red county, probably sings in a couple choirs.

She's horrified about all of this as she knows Republicans don't want gay people to be allowed to be teachers, she's been told that explicitely by people in her town, that she "shouldn't be allowed to teach children."

I think the military ending DADT helped in this area (we have a big air force base)

"OK, the Bible says that being gay is a sin. But the Bible also says that eating pork is a sin, also. So which sin is worse, and who is to judge which is worse? A sin is a sin. So if you then that gay people should not teach, then people who eat pork, should not, either. And what did Jesus say, "judge not?"

49 “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.

Unfortunately, don't see myself visiting NC anytime soon. Would otherwise love to show my support.

Sid

The first openly transgender elected to Congress. She is a wonderful person, smart well educated and experienced. It’s like they’re insulting the whole state of Delaware

but I am sure she isn't the only one.

an absolute disgrace

they literally care more about trans folk in bathrooms than they care about climate change or the war on women

very sad indeed

Sid

but I live in Snow Hill now and work in Goldsboro.

Jones County. It's all MAGA down this way.

looked up your results yikes.

MAGA hates groups in general as “they”. If they have a personal connection with you they’re different. The Cheney’s have a gay daughter, so they’re more tolerant.

We have GOP friends that think liberals will destroy the country, but think we’re ok knowing we’re liberal.

So, as said, make as many friends as you can

I have some very conservative friends on staff here but they do respect me. I am more introverted than the typical teacher so it can be hard for me to be 'on' all the time but I think I do some good for the cause so to speak.

I am looking to get out before Project 2025 destroys the education field that I work (was a teacher now work in large scale assessment).

I have given this a lot of thought after watching the last couple of seasons of Finding Your Roots that had a lot of Ashkenazi jews as the subjects. For so many, only a few of the family left early before a purging of the Pale, or the ghettos, or the final solution. So many said they wished their other relatives had tried to get out sooner. No one said, I was disappointed that my family got out too soon.

It may be the cowards way out, but I would rather leave of my own volition than die in a re-education center ala Chinese great leap forward or some soviet style gulag for undesirables like union leaders and democrat donors.

who has lived all over the world in various countries teaching theater arts. I have another friend who has been teaching in France for about 15 years. He is gay and now has his French passport.

that actually delivers real results.

We lost her in 2021 at age 77, after she worked tirelessly for civil rights and justice for 50 of those years. She got to see Joe Biden elected; I'm glad she has not witnessed the rise of the Fourth Reich.

Regarding the issue of concern about LGBTQ teachers being "around" students, she would be quick to point out that 99% of pedophiles are straight white men.

She was my hero.

In those days, no way in hell could a teacher be openly gay. Among the parents, there would have been pandemonium in the streets. As a kid, I knew something was a little different about three teachers in particular. All three were good teachers in whose classes I excelled. One was my male home room teacher in 6th grade down in Los Angeles. For some reason, he suggested that I read a Judy Blume book. I think he could tell that I was a really sheltered kid and was ripe to be made fun of since I didn't know squat about sex. In my 11 year old mind though, that book was the most scandalous incendiary smut imaginable. After finishing the book, I never really trusted that teacher. I knew there were mysteries yet to be discovered and I didn't appreciate someone else choosing which doors I opened and when I did so. Three years later, when I was 14 and living in Central Pennsylvania, in a little town called Bloomsburg, I'm fairly sure that my Spanish and General Science teachers were gay. At the time, I didn't think of it in those terms. I just knew that one seemed a little too meticulously put together and the other one seemed a little over the top in his praise of my test scores. Anyway, looking back, I feel sorry for those three guys (even the one who tried to corrupt me with Judy Blume prose). They should have been able to live their true selves. As kids, I don't think we'd have given a shit. All that mattered back then was whether we had a quarter in our pocket to hit the Galaga machine at the arcade after school. Sucker arcade operators. On a good day, we could make that quarter go a loooooong ways. So, in summation, I would say that (1) all teachers have the potential to rock, regardless of whether they are straight, gay or any shade in between, (2) kids know what's going on, and they see and feel things in a way we no longer can once we grow up and (3) Judy Blume is a temptress who probably owes me some money in therapy bills I've paid over the years.