Take a statement for a walk

In today’s class, our morning sessions required TCs agree or disagree with certain statements read by the facilitators. It was not a question of raising hands but stepping on one side of a line, the line represented the differences between belief and doubt. Since we had a limited amount of time to offer our positions, I thought I’d use this space to walk these lines.
Statement: Teachers should have the right to address homosexuality in the classroom.
I know this statement was made but it’s where my position is as well. Saying that teachers have the right to address homosexuality in the classroom is the same as saying that teachers have the right not to address the subject. We have read quite a bit of material and had numerous discussions about how not mentioning something can equate to dismissing it. Students then feel as though they are not adequately represented and that their orientation must be hidden. Do we just wait for teachable moments when it comes to this subject? If so, will it ever come up? Are there stories in Elements of Literature that contain stories about homosexual individuals? Without explicitly stating that a character is homosexual, how do we know that the segment of that population is adequately represented? We know we want multicultural literature in the classroom so that we embed the values of all of our students so perhaps this too falls within the realm.