Anti-LGBTQ politics compel Kentucky teacher of the year to resign

Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr.
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Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr. — a French and English teacher at Montgomery County High School in Mount Sterling, Kentucky who has taught for 12 years and won the state’s teacher of the year award in 2022 — has said that homophobia and threats have made him decide to give up teaching altogether.

Carver wrote that former President Donald Trump has emboldened people who think that “that America is heteronormative and that queerness is bad.” These people are now fighting LGBTQ educators like him. Similarly, numerous Republican lawmakers have sought to ban any LGBTQ content from classrooms and have referred to queer educators and allies as pedophilic “groomers.” This has made queer teachers’ lives much harder, Carver said.

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Carver noted that anti-LGBTQ attitudes compelled Kentucky music teacher Tyler Clay Morgan to resign.

Last year, Morgan’s students decorated his classroom door with Pride flags to express support of LGBTQ students. When Morgan began receiving “horrific death threats” from parents upset about his talk of LGBTQ acceptance, Carver said, Morgan’s school administrators responded by telling parents that Morgan’s actions were “unacceptable and…

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