The two private meetings were to “consider the legal rights and duties of the School Committee” and to discuss a personnel matter. a wider gay world for the first time: visiting a secret gay bar, dodging police. The purpose of the hearing was for them to listen, Schools said at the start of the meeting.Īfter the public comment period ended, the board held two executive sessions with Felmly. Others lived public bachelor or spinster lives, traveling from one. The committee made no comments in response to the public comments. LaPlaca asked, “If I’m not allowed to read this book to the School Committee, then why is it available to children?” They are located in many police stations. She suggested comments could be emailed to the board. The GLLO program - Gay and Lesbian Liaison Officers - have served the LGBTIQ communities for almost 30 years. “I don’t know the ages of children watching,” Schools said, referring to the meeting audience. including three tactical cops with shields, stood in a hallway for 35 minutes under. LaPlaca says the book is porn.Īfter consulting briefly with lawyer Peter Felmly of the Drummond Woodsum law firm, Schools denied the reading. If we follow this trajectory we will all be gay in 2054, he said. Another parent, Andrew LaPlaca, who filed one of the three written complaints against Perry, was halted from reading excerpts from a Gorham High School library book about gay youth, “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George Matthew Johnson.