After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year.
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In California schools, teachers do and mt say the word "gay" as well as lbian and transgenr lsons about nonnformg exprsns of genr. * california teachers lgbtq *
5 ln for rejectg a social studi textbook that clus material on the late gay polician Harvey Milk.
The textbooks themselv do not mentn Milk—California’s first openly gay elected official, who was assassated by a lleague 1978—but supplemental materials for teachers do. “I fd the cln of sexually based topics and the glorifitn of a known pedophile, who happened to be an advote for gay rights, to 10-year-olds morally reprehensible and appropriate, ” he said. As the East Bay Tim noted, out thor and journalist Randy Shilts’s 2008 bgraphy of Milk, The Mayor of Castro Street, tails the gay rights in’s relatnship wh Jack McKley.
“Not only uld [board members’] statements [about Milk] reflect that the cisn was motivated by a sire to erase om the history tght to stunts the ntributns of a proment and rpected gay rights activist and lear, but they also suggt that the Board’s actn may have been tated by discrimatory anim, ” the letter read, acrdg to the East Bay Tim. Jacksonville Jaguars’ Kev Maxen is the first male major pro men’s ach to e out as gay. Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey Milk.
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The bate was sparked after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978. Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.
Gay pri vios shown a Glendale third-gra classroom have add an tense lol chapter to a natnal bate over how and when lsons on genr inty and sexual orientatn should be broached public episo unfold wh the disclosure that a teacher at Jefferson Elementary had shown her stunts gay pri vios and had asked for the district’s help asssg which of four specific vios would be appropriate for classroom e. California law requir stunts learn and be provid stctnal materials that expla the “role and ntributns” of among others, “lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Amerins.
In California schools, teachers do and mt say the word "gay" as well as lbian and transgenr lsons about nonnformg exprsns of genr. * california teachers lgbtq *
”Remend rourc clu materials om the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn early are California stunts supposed to learn about issu related to genr exprsn and inty? But state guil note that send-grars, by studyg the stori of “a diverse llectn of fai, ” cludg those “wh lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr parents and their children...
“We e the acronym LGBT to scribe the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny, ” acrdg to GLAAD. “Sexual orientatn scrib a person’s endurg physil, romantic, and/or emotnal attractn to another person (for example: straight, gay, lbian, bisexual). Transgenr people may be straight, lbian, gay or bisexual.
The materials were veloped s ago — and have evolved over time — by the nonprof group to bat racism and whe Learng for Jtice materials ed Glendale do not clu the gay pri vios, but the entirety of the lsons offered by the anizatn are meant to promote diversy and cln, cludg empathy for stunts who don’t nform to genr norms. A new Florida law — which crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, sayg margaliz LGBTQ people — forbids classroom stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra.