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Life after Obergefell: Will Queers Finally Become Visible within Public Schools?

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The 6th and final chapter addresses this legacy of state-sanctioned erasure and what that has meantfor queer children and adults. I then analyze the legacy of anti-queer erasure in U.S. public schools and what might be done to ameliorate this curiously bigoted inheritance.

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  1. Robert Kim, A Report on the Status of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People in Education: Stepping out of the closet, into the light, section VIII, 33–39. Available at http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/HE/glbtstatus09.pdf. Last accessed on July 13, 2014, 33.

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  5. Jane Bryan Meek, “Being Queer is the Luckiest Thing:” Investigating a new generation’s use of queer within Lesbian, Gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) student groups, in Erica R. Meiners and Therese Quinn (eds), Sexualities in Education: A reader. ( New York: Peter Lang, 2012 ), 187–198.

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    Catherine A. Lugg (Professor of Education)

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Lugg, C.A. (2016). Life after Obergefell: Will Queers Finally Become Visible within Public Schools?. In: US Public Schools and the Politics of Queer Erasure. The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137535269_7

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  • Publisher Name: Palgrave Pivot, New York

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