N.J. is among four stat that passed laws mandatg that public schools rporate curriculums clive of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.
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Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * lgbt curriculum in schools *
Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about.
”The bate arose 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. ” Whout evince, 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.
* lgbt curriculum in schools *
5 ln, after s nservative board members rejected state-endorsed textbooks that mentn gay rights activist Harvey Milk of San Francis. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera [both gay liberatn and trans rights activists]. LGBTQ+ stands for “lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng” wh the pl referrg to other genr and sexualy variatns that are also weled and clud LGBTQ+ spac and ntent.
Some misnceptns that may be held about addg the stori is that is gog to enurage stunts to intify as gay, trans, or another LGBTQ+ group; or that is somehow obscene to have gay or lbian characters. " It stat that "the teachg of history the Uned Stat shall clu a study of the rol and ntributns of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people the history of this untry. Dpe this new wave of efforts to tegrate LGBT ntent to the classroom, six stat – Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carola and Texas – still have laws prohibg the "promotn of homosexualy.
" The laws, also known as "no pro homo" laws, prohib schools om teachg lbian, gay or bisexual people or topics a posive light health or sexual tn class. Alabama law, for example, stat that when discsg sexual health tn, "class mt emphasize, a factual manner and om a health perspective, that homosexualy is not a liftyle acceptable to the general public and that homosexual nduct is a crimal offense unr the laws of the state. Nearly 9 10 Amerins know someone who is gay or lbian; 3 10 know someone who is transgenr (Pew Rearch Center, 2016).