How do gay and lesbian teachers negotiate their professional and sexual identities at work, given that these identities are constructed as mutually exclusive, even as mutually opposed? Using interviews and ethnographic material from Texas and California, School’s Out explores how teachers struggle to create a classroom persona that balances who they are and what’s expected of them in a climate of pervasive homophobia. This examination of the tension between the rhetoric of gay pride and the professional ethic of discretion connect and considers complicating factors, from local law and politics to race and gender privilege. This project also considers how racialized discourses of homophobia thwart challenges to sexual injustices in schools.