Title: Special Teachers/Special Boys
Description: This book is co-written with Marc Rubin, Peter Fisher's partner. Rubin was a special education teacher and the novel is based on Rubin’s experiences teaching troubled youth. The teacher, Bob Davidson, is a gay activist teaching "at a multiracial New York school for juvenile delinquents" (from Kirkus Reviews 1979). The students don't have knowledge of Davidson's activities outside the classroom until he appears on a local television talk show.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Gay men, gay students, gay fiction, Sexuality, Sex role, special students, Legal status, homophobia, Internet Archive, Identity, laws, Fiction, general, Children's fiction
Places: New York City
People: Peter Fisher, Marc Rubin
Time periods: 1979