Anseo! How a new generation of gay teachers is fighting back
There is an assumption that all teachers are straight – but they’re not and even though there is no legislation to protect them, some gay teachers are coming out, writes Grainne Faller in Irish Times.
It’s important for people to speak about this,” says Eoin Houlihan who was going to be anonymous for this article. But, after talking it over with the principal in his school, he decided to allow his name to be published because silence, he feels, is part of the problem.
Houlihan is in his 30s and has been a secondary school teacher for almost 10 years. He is also gay – something that he kept under wraps to begin with.
“I suppose I was nervous about it,” he says to the Irish Times. “I teach in a Catholic school so there was a big fear about it hampering my chances of being made permanent or gaining promotion”.
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