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A big "Fuck You" to everyone saying it's ok to "keep out the fag books."
There's a huge fucking difference between material that argues some sort of whacked out militant agenda and things that simply mention that there are gay people and imply that they might actually be just like everyone else. God fucking forbid!
If you read through that a great majority of the books labeled as having a "homosexual agenda" just make mention somewhere of gay parents, homosexuality, the issues surrounding coming out of the closet, etc. These are all realities that we deal with, but if you dare to try and show things like that and not do your part to sweep homosexuality under a rug you are part of the "gay agenda."
Fuck that. It's this same goddamn attitude that makes it possible for people to get away with harassing, beating, raping, or even murdering homosexuals in this country with often lenient penalities or none whatsoever.
And no, I'm not gay, but I do have friends of both genders who are gay or bisexual. More imporantly, I'm fucking perceptive enough to realize that when shit is allowed to happen to one minority group, it can very easily happen to any of us, as we're all part of multiple groups whether we realize it or not (individual religions, age groups, political factions, etc.).
The best way to protect your own rights is to protect everyone's.
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Teaching those books to students in High School will just ostracize the kids who become "harassing, beating, raping, murdering" bigots even more.
Been a while since High School for you I assume? Think back a bit and remember what it was like. The tolerant students who don't give a shit either way about gays will just grind through the assignments, get their grade and forget about it before the 6 weeks is over.
The kids that have been brought up to dislike gays will be in the hallway bitching about having to do "a report on some stupid faggot book" learning only to hate what will be viewed as the "Gay agenda" even more.
If the kid is going to grow up hating gays most likely his parents have animosity towards gays as well. A book isn't going to change that unless the goal is infact to cause tension between parents and their children.
Now that High School is out of the question you could teach it in Elementry/Junior High before their minds have become resolute in their stace on gays. Of course this will just result in a bunch of horny, bored pre-pubescent kids who still think girls have "cooties" assfucking each other because they don't have a concept of the social and physical implications since their only insight on the topic is some book designed to make gay "ok".
In a world where the media tells us we cannot show children people smoking cigarettes on TV out of fear of them being brainwashed into wanting to live in "flavor country" I really don't see how telling kids "Hey! The other half of the population has holes you can screw too!" is any better.
-edit - Soriak : Typical "Anti-bigotry" curriculum in the United States that I experienced in a public school took place mostly in the 7th/8th/9th grade. They bombarded us with holocaust/slavery material, made the main characters heroes and told the students to put themselves into the "heroes" shoes. Maybe it's because that's how I was presented "anti-bigotry" material that I fear having pro-gay lifestyle being brought up in schools. If I was sure that people in the books were "gay heroes" rather than "heroes because they are gay" I'd have less of a problem with it, it's just for every other minority we "learned" about it was always the former. The "they are worth talking about JUST because they were gay/black/jews" mindset doesn't help anyone.
Don't talk about a couple metrofags living in California preaching in pride parades, living together happily ever after. Talk instead about gay chemists, biologists. physicists, mathematicians. Let the students know gays are not worthless deviant. Let them know gays contribute to society in a meaningful way. Make the student respect the group of people for more then just preaching their ways. The fact that they are gay should be an after thought, something as subtle as a mentioning of where they were born. A persons sexual orientation is a very small part of a person, present it as such...
