In this issue we will examine who these new groups think should be allowed to teach, and what material about homosexuality they want to see placed in school libraries. Above all else, we recommend study of the Massachusetts model. In many ways, Massachusetts represents heaven to activists seeking to use the school system to advance social acceptance of homosexual activity. Thus, Massachusetts has become the first state to institutionalize sexual orientation sensitivity training into school personnel educational programs.
Sensitivity means schools have to offer programs in being sensitive to gay and lesbian concerns.
And although Massachusetts leads the way in sexual orientation activism, teachers in other states are also trying to move the agenda forward. In San Francisco, two teachers are fighting suspension after parents objected to the way two speakers in the class had discussed homosexual activity. She then went on to explain, graphically, how she practiced lesbian sex. Groups like the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teachers Network, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the National Coalitions for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth have also targeted both school and community libraries in order to get them to carry titles which celebrate actively homosexual lifestyles. Gounaud also noted that one way so many books on this subject make it into libraries is by multiplying the categories.