LGBT movement workg to mandate “gay history” schools across Ameri

Contents:

• TEACHG GAY HISTORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A POSSIBLE MANDATE CALIFORNIA
• LGBT MOVEMENT ANIZG TO MANDATE “GAY HISTORY” SCHOOLS ACROSS AMERI.

TEACHG GAY HISTORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A POSSIBLE MANDATE CALIFORNIA

The law, passed 2011, adds lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins and persons wh disabili to the list of those cludg men and women, Native Amerins, Ain Amerins, Mexin Amerins, Asian Amerins, Pacific Islanrs, European Amerins and members of other ethnic and cultural groups whose ntributns mt be clud classroom stctn and materials. Perez, ” and unrneath said, alicized font, “Gay-bull teacher wh tattoos” and that’s what I passed out to parents and I wore that fely wh a badge of honor. Proposn 6, which was monly referred to as “the Briggs Iniative, ” would have allowed school boards to fire teachers who were gay or lbian or who supported gay or lbian rights.

As I started to do at the graduate school level, I started to see very, very quickly that queer history, pecially thkg about the 1960s, the emergence of gay liberatn some acunts is treated this very static, isolated way as... That fact, what people were dog particular the gay liberatn movement was tryg to unrstand the relatnship or what we might now ll, the tersectn between sexualy and genr and issu of the Vietnam War, issu of racial jtice, issu of palism.

You n learn even more about rporatg LGBTQ history to your classroom a valuable llectn of says lled “Unrstandg and Teachg US Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr History. If we are willg to talk about Jam Baldw as a cultural cric and a wrer who was nstantly public view, bat, on televisn, beg a voice of movement perspectiv and very wily unrstood to be gay and not really shy about allowg that perceptn to flourish. Or Lorrae Hansberry, right, as a wrer who stunts often will have been exposed to Rais the Sun and who was actively volved the homophile movement, the kd of 1950s, early 1960s era of the gay and lbian movement as well as black eedom stggle as well.

LGBT MOVEMENT ANIZG TO MANDATE “GAY HISTORY” SCHOOLS ACROSS AMERI.

We have to look to other kds of rol precisely bee of the ways homophobia works nstctg what learship means or what speakg out means. Eugenics is very much related also to the history of sexology, which has a really tertg place queer history broadly both opprsive and liberatory certa ways, opprsive that, often has gone along wh the kd of rankg of people fed as homosexuals or as transgenr as flawed or as wrong. There is a wealth of really wonrful rourc out there to talk about how gay and lbian people started to anize the midst of the armed forc World War Two but also we have lots of evince of urse of ary and other ernment crackdown agast gay and lbian anizg and culture si the ary immediately after .

Then, fally of urse, jt thkg about 1960s social movements, beg sure to clu gay and lbian liberatn as part of that, I thk often to the extent that youth culture of the 1950s is kd of brought to the classroom, ’s extremely heteronormative, right? It also clus the seedbed of a lot of other kds of sexual eedom and allows stunts also to thk through the relatnships between gay and lbian liberatn and other kds of social movements. In other words, if a stunt says, “That’s gay” or “You’re actg like a girl, ” to really stop that that moment and to e to talk about what that really means and what are the needs of the classroom.