"In this important book, Mayernick gives us new insights into LGB teachers organizing for political change in the 1970s and 1980s. Combining educational history, labor history, and LGB history, the book analyzes how teachers actively fought for equal rights at national, state, and local levels."— Margaret Nash, professor, University of California, Riverside
"Maynerick shows how LGB educators used unions to make it possible to be an openly gay teacher for the first time in the United States. As LGBT people’s presence in education faces renewed attacks, Not Alone provides strategies and hope from the past for making schools safer for them today."— Michael Hevel, associate professor of higher education, University of Arkansas