Show #1 Hour 1
| Guests: Ron Schmidt of BANGLE | Show Summary: Recent suicides of LGBT teens
across the country go largely unnoticed in our media-jaded culture. Angie
interviews educator and author of the memoir Once Removed Ron Schmidt about his
experiences as an out teacher in the California school system. Ron came to terms
with his own homosexuality as an adult after a conflicted Catholic upbringing.
He conquered his own pain and went on to become a resource, friend and guide to
isolated and frightened teens in the Morgan Hill Public School System where he
taught for more than a decade, and to organizations and causes around the state
and beyond. Ron is a co-founder of the South Bay Chapter of the Bay Area Network
of Gay and Lesbian Educators (BANGLE.)
