As I started my research for the assignment, a critical summary. The work of Lee Airton 

caught my attention. Lee Airton, is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in the faculty of Education at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Dr. Airton, has written many researcher papers, and the book, Gender – Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say and What to Do in the New Gender Culture on gender-sexual diversity and queer theory in the Education system. Dr. Airton serves as an advocate for LGBTQ and gender fluid youth. In 2017, they were acknowledged for their work and received the Youth Role Model of the Year Award from the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity. Dr. Airton continues their work, and advocacy, they show and support all individuals and peoples’ right. 

            Dr. Airton research article, Leave “Those Kids” Alone: On the Conflation of School Homophobia and Suffering Queers had drawn my attention, which highlighted a subject I wanted to learn more on. The article examines queer youth, how they are coping in the present-day school system. It also goes beyond queer youth and look at the “queerness” in the school system and what that means. These concepts where described from very different perspectives. Queerness is asking us as educators to look at the subject instead of the individual. With this in hand, the door opens for anti-homophobia education to become impactful. 

            My next steps, is to find additional articles on the subject of Queer Theory in the curriculum. These articles could possibly serve as additional background information to Dr. Airton’s article. However, I would like to ensure a broad base of knowledge in order to have a comprehensive overview to this subject matter. With this review and subject matter being of great importance to enable my growth, I plan to use my time to conduct a in depth look at this topic. To have ample opportunity to recognize and assimilate what this research is examining and how, in order to continue on my educational path.