The Rainbow Club
Where football meets Rainbow club
They gathered in the science room at lunchtime. The teacher had a couple of couches at the back of the classroom and it was the perfect place for them to hang out. It was a bit weird that it was the science room; like if you thought about it were they a biology experiment? But they knew that was not what she thought. She was great and she and Turley were the sponsors of the Rainbow group. The Rainbow group was for anyone in the LGBTQQIP2SAA list: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, pansexual, two-spirit (2S), androgynous and asexual, but people still said LGBTQ for short. The long letter list really was long. Most people simply couldn’t remember it all. Even when they meant well, and were not wanting to exclude anyone. And of course, everyone who was their ally was welcome too.
Turley was the band teacher. They could also have met in the music room but this was more comfortable. Neither Turley nor Renate the science teacher was gay, but both of them had a family member who was. So they were allies. And they were great. Turley made cookies every other Friday, and Renate’s husband made some kind of pastries for the alternate weeks. He was from France and a chef. He worked at night at a local fancy restaurant. Cub wasn’t sure when they saw each other. It sounded like Renate got home and took over the kids…
