ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the experiences of gender and sexuality diverse teachers. It illustrates how gender and sexuality diverse teachers have experienced a history of discrimination in the workplace which has impacted their personal and professional lives. The legacy of discriminatory discourse prevailing in Australia along with more current influences apparent in its culture of limitation continue to shape the professional subjectivities of gender and sexuality diverse teachers. In various ways, many sexuality diverse teachers assume homonormative subjectivities in the workplace and, to an extent, neoliberal discourse has opened spaces for inclusion for the historically marginalised identities in schools. Workplace climate hostility is often the rationale for self-silencing by gender and sexuality diverse teachers. Potential and actual discrimination is still experienced by gender and sexuality diverse teachers in Australian public schools. For gender and sexuality diverse teachers, any kind of acceptance, no matter how limited, is better than continued overt discrimination.
