CA schools already teaching gay history

Dan82 · Apr 25, 2011

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=5645

As anti-gay groups lash out against a move to require California schools to teach students about LGBT history, school districts around the state are already adding gay-related lessons to the curriculum.

And the push to see the accomplishments of LGBT people be discussed in the classroom isn't happening solely in gay-friendly urban districts such as in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Educators in more suburban areas such as Sacramento are also following suit.

The Sacramento City Unified School District is encouraging its teachers to talk to their pupils about the late gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, the state's first out elected politician who was killed in office in 1978. The move follows the creation by state lawmakers of an unofficial state holiday each year on Milk's birthday, May 22.

"This is new for this year," said Lawrence Shweky, a straight man who co-chairs the district's LGBT Task Force...

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=5645
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Neoh · Apr 25, 2011

:eusa_clap

It's good to see this, regardless of people's positions on LGBT issues, Harvey Milk was a large step forward in the LGBT movement and in society. Whether or not opponents like it, these issues helped shape where we are today and it's important that kids learn why things are the way they are.

(and here I've always hated history lessons in school)

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