Sexual Orientation in The Classroom

My most pointed memory and reaction to GLBT issues in the high school classroom actually happened shortly after I went to college.  I hated English in high school, and many of my English teachers.  But my junior year I had a teacher I really liked.  She not only told us she was going to treat us like adults, but actually did.  She also gave us eye opening, higher level reading.  Farewell to Arms was way beyond anything I had read before, and I loved it.  At the time I didn't realize she was gay.  I never really put much though to it, and it wouldn't have mattered if I had known.  Fast forward back to college.  Taking the train, talking to old classmates I found out she had left under pressure.  One student's mother really didn't like the teacher and had berated her over some offensive language in one of the books in the list for summer reading.  Then a student came out and said that the teacher had flirted/propositioned her.  The teacher was suspended and the witch hunt really began.  I feel like it was an attack on the teacher's way of life and how she did treat us more like adults than children.  in the end the school found out that the claims made against the teacher were false, and tried to bring the teacher back.  She told them to pound sand and went off on her own way.  The reason this sticks out in my mind is that I don't remember having many if any GLBT conversation in high school.  There was some type of diversity club, but nothing was ever discussed outside of that.  So now my only memory of how GLBT is treated at my old school is it's either not discussed or a negative. That's not how I want my classroom and school to be.  We may not agree with the students' way of life, but we should still be accepting.