Gay Men unr the Nazi Regime | Holot Encyclopedia

Contents:

• GAY HISTORY JOS THE CURRICULUM
• MAKG GAY HISTORY : THE HALF-CENTURY FIGHT FOR LBIAN AND GAY EQUAL RIGHTS
• GAY HISTORY: NJ, ATLANTIC CY - NEW YORK AVENUE LIFE AND DEATH OF GAY SPAC
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

GAY HISTORY JOS THE CURRICULUM

Opn|Gay History Jos the Curriculum ADVERTISEMENTNov.

3, 2002 To the Edor: Richard Goldste ("Gay History Is Still the Closet, " Op-Ed, Oct. 30) is rrect to say that "silence about gay history" persists many classrooms, even those voted to civil rights.

As profsors of social studi tn at Teachers College, Columbia Universy, we clu gay history our curriculum. In discsg our work at natnal nferenc, we have been gratified to learn of efforts ma by teachers, pecially New York and California, to troduce gay issu to social studi classrooms. Wh the last year, the virtual silence among social studi teacher tors about this topic was broken when an entire issue of our field's rearch journal addrsed approach to the teachg of gay issu.

MAKG GAY HISTORY : THE HALF-CENTURY FIGHT FOR LBIAN AND GAY EQUAL RIGHTS

30, 2002 • To the Edor: "Gay History Is Still the Closet, " by Richard Goldste (Op-Ed, Oct.

30), rightly creds Harry Hay, Del Mart and Phyllis Lyon as the gay and lbian muny's hero and laments that so few know of their achievements. While high schools and lleg are sktish or unterted rporatg gay history, there are other sid factors at work.

GAY HISTORY: NJ, ATLANTIC CY - NEW YORK AVENUE LIFE AND DEATH OF GAY SPAC

Age-phobia and homophobia drive olr gays and lbians to visibily and margalize all as we age. Not surprisgly, gays and lbians often have no sense of their future past their mid-30's. Unls we equally value people of all ag and acknowledge that many who built gay and lbian history ntue to live vibrant, tertg liv today, we will never have the strong muny we need to take to the future.

TERRY KAELBER Executive Director, Senr Actn a Gay Environment New York, Oct.

30, 2002 • To the Edor: Richard Goldste ("Gay History Is Still the Closet, " Op-Ed, Oct.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

30) quot John Silber, chancellor of Boston Universy, as sayg that many homosexuals e to their orientatn "bee that is the way which they were first sced to sex. " As a profsor of clil psychiatry, I know that view is not only rrect but fosters antigay prejudice. Such prejudice, which stigmatiz gay people, is often ed to jtify homophobic attus, even by fay members.

Like heterosexual orientatn, homosexual orientatn is ually not a rult of "sctn. 30, 2002 A versn of this article appears prt on of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Gay History Jos the Curriculum. Of: Makg history: the stggle for gay and lbian equal rights, 1945-1990: an oral history.

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