Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ RightsMad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers Rights addresses an important legal case that set the stage for todays LGBTQ civil rightsa case that almost no one has heard of. Marjorie Rowland v. Mad River School District involves an Ohio guidance counselor fired in 1974 for being bisexual. Rowlands case made it to the U. S. Supreme Court, but the justices declined to consider it. In a spectacular published dissent, Justice Brennan laid