A Radical Rethinking of Sexuality and Schooling

Eric Rofes was one of the first openly gay schoolteachers in the United States and founded one of the first programs for queer youth in Boston in the 1970s. He currently is Associate Professor of Education at Humboldt State University on the coast of Northern California where he teaches a course on queer issues in schools and leads a program that credentials elementary school teachers. A long time gay community activist, he has served as founding chair of the Boston Lesbian & Gay Political Alliance, executive director of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center, and director of Shanti Project, San Francisco's pioneering AIDS service group. He has published twelve books including Socrates, Plato & Guys Like Me: Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher and, with coeditors Mary Louise Rasmussen and Susan Talburt, Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion, and Insubordination In and Out of Schools. He lives in San Francisco and Arcata, California.

Chapter 1 Beyond the Bruising Sites of Boyhood Chapter 2 Candy from Strangers: Queer Teachers and the (Im)Moral Development of Children Chapter 3 Rethinking Anti-Gay Harassment in Schools Chapter 4 Innocence, Perversion, and Heather's Two Mommies Chapter 5 Queers, Education Schools, and Sex Panic Chapter 6 Bound and Gagged: Sexual Silences, Gender Conformity, and the Gay Male Teacher Chapter 7 Desires as Defiance: Transgressions, Risk Taking, and Resistance to Safe-Sex Education Chapter 8 Toward a Radical Rethinking of Education, Schooling, and Sexuality