Well-being of School Community: Celebrating Pride

During June, educators celebrated Pride Month and offered solidarity for their queer students and colleagues against a national backdrop of anti-LGBTQIA legislation and censorship.

  • “Today, June 1, marks the start of Pride month! As an educator and member of the LGBTQAI community, I’m committed to showing up authentically and nurturing safe spaces for all of our LGBTQAI students, colleagues and families.” —Educator in Florida
  • “As we kick off #PrideMonth in a season where our #LGBTQ youth are facing rising erasure and repression, let’s assert that their existence doesn’t threaten anyone’s safety, and they deserve to see themselves mirrored and validated.” —High School Assistant Principal in Maryland
  • “Proud that my district raised the Pride flag today with a group of students. The president of GSA is the one who raised it.” —Educator in Pennsylvania
  • “For Pride month this year, my colleague Meg and I delivered this PD at my school on creating trans affirming spaces for students through curricula and policy! It was a blast, and I was also so happy to get to debut this dress. Happy Pride, everybody!” —Teacher, N/A
  • “Families keeping their children home from school on Thursday was apparently a protest against schools raising the Pride flag (which is up all month). Friday was a PD day. Since Pride Month is all of June are we expecting absences for the rest of the school year? Real question.” —Educator in Ontario
  • “Happy Pride Month! This is my favorite photo from one of the protests against anti-LGBTQ policies passed by the Central Bucks School Board.” —Teacher in Pennsylvania 
  • “As a mom and a teacher in Texas, I am gutted. SB 14 doesn’t protect kids; it hurts them. Trans kids deserve to have their identities affirmed. They deserve to become adults. They deserve to live.” —High School English Teacher in Texas
  • “This applies to *any* LGBT curriculum. Admin: stop telling teachers when parents complain that they need to offer alternative readings to the queer affirming texts they chose for the kids who don’t want to read them. It is censoring the curriculum to please bigots and is wrong.” —Teacher, N/A