I have had a very good week at work. In fact, I would give it a  9.5 out of 10. Really! The reason that this week has been so good is because as an out lesbian teacher at a high school I did not have one thing happen to me because I am an out… [Continue Reading]

This has been such a great week! I feel a little like a co-conspirator at the raising of Lazarus from the dead – if you will excuse the biblical reference – with my school’s GSA being Lazarus and me being … well – certainly not Jesus exactly – but it’s still a good metaphor.
When I… [Continue Reading]

What is it about men wearing women’s clothing that (most of) the straight community finds so hysterically funny? It is the basis of so much comedy in our media and theatre. Put a straight man in a dress and a pair of heels and voila! You got funny.
So there I was, newly arrived at my… [Continue Reading]

When I left my alternative classroom for my present high school, I had the opportunity to return to the closet. I did not know anyone at this new school, and no one knew me. I was proud of coming out to my students, but looking back on it now, it was done in a very… [Continue Reading]

My official coming out moment happened after my partner and I spent a weekend traveling to Vermont for our civil union – that was backin the days before same sex marriage became legal in Ontario. I arrived back in the classroom on Monday with a big smile on my face and a wedding band on… [Continue Reading]