Sarah Hughes

Jamie Shelton can’t prove that someone shot out her windshield because of her eighth-grade Queer History curriculum a few years ago, but she has a hunch. The father of one of her students had been so irate about the material that he threatened to beat her up, and co-workers started walking her to her car. In her 15 years in the classroom in Albuquerque, New Mexico, principals have asked her to park across the street from the school because of a rainbow decal on her car, misgendered her, called her homophobic names, and left religious texts in her school mailbox.