Queer Teachers Negotiating Geographies of Safety in the 1990s

Jason Mayernick

doi:10.5944/hme.18.2023.34639

Authors

Jason Mayernick University of North Georgia 0000-0002-0600-3355

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/hme.18.2023.34639

Keywords:

queer, LGBTQ teachers, 1990s, history

Abstract

This study demonstrates how three queer teachers in conservative spaces created geographies of safety during the 1990s. Each of the three teachers discussed initiated a geography of safety, and these histories are relevant to the ongoing negotiation that queer elementary and secondary educators today engage as they reconcile their moral authority as teachers with their gender(s) and sexualities.

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