"A strength of the book is its close examination of the nuances, tactics, and obstacles of moving LGB protections forward, the rhetorical dynamics involved, and the varying arguments from teachers' privacy rights to workers' rights that propelled progress. An important book for the field, Mayernick's work helps convey to LGBTQ teachers, then and now, they are never alone." (Historical Studies in Education) "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) "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).