ISBN 1-55583-249-0
Alyson Publications
1995 | by Dan Woog
Whether America wants to admit it or not, its schools are filled with gays and lesbians among the
students, teachers, principals, coaches, and counselors. And each day they face enormous
challenges: "Can I mention gay issues in class?" "How do I handle homophobic
colleagues?" "What if the guys on my team find out?" In chronicaling the stories for
School's Out, journalist Dan Woog conducted almost 300 interviews with gay and
straight educators, students, and parents across the country. What he discovered was a
veritable kaleidoscope of experiences: the high school football coach who came
out to his team; the Connecticut teenager who was harassed in one school but accepted in
another; the small-town Nebraska man who, dying of AIDS complications, finally gathered
the courage to talk to students about his disease. By putting a human face on
the reality of homosexuality in America's schools, School's Out sheds new light on
the pressures, prejudices, and breakthroughs gays deal with in a new era in education.
-- from the back cover
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