New Oral History Resource for LGBT History Month
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T They include interviews with Terry Boggis about being a lesbian parent and an LGBT family advocate; Kendall Bailey about being discharged from the U.S. military under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell;" David Barr about the impact of AIDS on the gay community and his role as an activist since the 1980s; James Dale about being the plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the Boy Scouts of America's membership policy; Michael Levine about his experiences at the Stonewall Inn on the night of the rebellion that sparked the modern LGBT rights movement; and Charles Silverstein about his role in the declassification of homosexuality as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association. Each interview is transcribed and is accompanied by background information, discussion questions, and activities for educators. There's also biographical information about the interview subject and historical background on the era. Several lesson plans are included that explore broad themes such as silence and invisibility, inclusion and exclusion, and name-calling, as well as specific topics related to the interviews, such as marriage equality and gender identity. The curriculum coincides with Bullying Prevention Awareness Month and addresses the need for more representation of LGBT people in school curricula. "Increasing the visibility of LGBT people and issues in school curricula will help to reduce persistent According to GLSEN's 2009 National School Climate Survey of more than 7,000 LGBT students, less than a fifth (17.9 percent) reported that LGBT-related topics were included in their textbooks or other assigned readings. When asked whether they had been taught about LGBT people, history or events in school, a vast majority (86.6 percent) of students reported that these topics weren't taught in any of their classes, and only 11.7 percent of students were exposed to positive representations of LGBT people, history, or events. The survey also found that 84.6 percent of LGBT students were verbally harassed and 40 percent were physically harassed at school in the past year, three-fifths (61.1 percent) felt unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation, and about a third skipped a day of school in the past month because of feeling unsafe. The study, however, indicates that in schools with positive representations of LGBT topics in the curriculum, LGBT students were less likely to report hearing homophobic remarks or experiencing victimization at school, and were more likely to report that school personnel and their peers intervened when homophobic remarks occurred. Less than half (42.1 percent) of LGBT students in schools with inclusive curricula felt unsafe because of their sexual orientation, compared to almost two-thirds (63.6 percent) of students in schools without this resource. Meanwhile, less than a fifth (17.1 percent) of LGBT students with inclusive curricula reported missing school in the past month, compared to almost a third of other students. This article originally appeared in the newsletter Extra Helping. Go here to subscribe. In honor of Gay History Month, InGroup Press and Lyn LeJeune present Elijah Rising, the story of the Ishmael-like friendship between two young men: a wealthy white New Yorker, Michael Cooke Holt, and a black tent-fundamentalist preacher, Elijah Broom, set in that period of turmoil and crisis in American history in which scientific marvels, social unrest, economic disasters, and the First World War, created new vistas about the individual and the nation. What then was it like to be gay in America in the 1920’s?
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September 28. 2011
here's a new middle and high school resource just in time for LGBT History Month that's designed to help educators integrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, people, and issues into their instructional programs. Unheard Voices, created in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, the Anti-Defamation League, and StoryCorps, includes five lesson plans built around brief audio interviews with nine people who witnessed or helped shape LGBT history in some way.
stereotypes and prejudice, and create safer schools for all," says Scott Hirschfeld, the curriculum director at the Anti-Defamation League.
GLSEN's Executive Director Eliza Byard says this resource will give a "voice to a part of American history that is often silenced in middle and high school curricula." GLSEN research clearly shows that the positive portrayal of LGBT people, history, and events in curricula has a positive impact on the entire school community and helps teach students respect for differences.
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