From Netflix’s ‘A Secret Love’ and ‘The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson’ to the seminal portrait ‘Regarding Susan Sontag,’ these 11 documentaries celebrate lesbian, bisexual, and trans women. Add them to your Pride Month watchlist.
LGBTQ One Pager
Infographic, Resource Guide, AASL Standards Framework applied to LGBQT+ materials.
Authors:
Jasmine Costello, Rahel Fesseha, Astrid Fossum, Bex Mui, Adrienne Williams
LGBQT+ Youth & Schols Resource Library
How do I make sure I use the right pronouns for someone? And what if I mess up? Language can change quickly. Here's a guide to talking gender in its beautiful complexity.
is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. This first-of-its-kind collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights,
Online resource hosting the key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day. The collection contains 150,000 pages of rare archival content, including seminal texts, letters, periodicals, speeches, interviews, and ephemera.
A new military sourcebook, archiving LGBTQI history one story at a time.
An oral history of the New York City-based LGBTQ activist group the Lesbian Avengers, recounted those who founded it in the 1990s, from organizing the Dyke March to the “lavendar menace” and theatrical protest tactics like fire-eating and stilts.
For educators
On this episode of BackStory, Brian, Nathan and Joanne explore the history of the LGBTQ community in the U.S.
Book & detailed curriculum
If you’ve been following our blog for a while, you might be aware that I (Anna) tend to read YA literature. Well, not exclusively, but I sure enjoy it a lot. So for me to make a post solely a…
Wakelet with Resources
This inquiry leads students through an investigation of the LGBTQ+ movement, primarily driven by the history of the movement through various accounts and perspectives. The compelling question—What makes a movement successful?—does not address whether or not the movement was successful, but instead assesses the components of a movement and whether the movement is in a …
The CGAC collects scans and shares this history through the protection and storage of its historic artifacts, including documents, photographs and film.
Whether celebrating Pride Month in June or recognizing accomplishments during October’s LGBTQ history month, these resources make learning more inclusive.
In the 1950s, 'coming out' meant quietly acknowledging one's sexual orientation. Today, the term is used by a broad array of social movements.
Sexuality (or sexual orientation) refers broadly to an individual’s physical and/or emotional attraction to a person of the same or opposite sex. LGBTQ, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), has become the common shorthand to inclusively reference this diverse set of sexuality and gender-based identities. Historically, many have been intolerant of homosexual, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Media has played a role in both perpetuating and resisting this state of affairs. While there has been an increase in LGBTQ representation in the media since the late 1990s, there are still very few prominent LGBT characters in the mainstream media. See topic overview PDF for more. Topic Overview Lesson & Worksheet Playlist
Explore the importance of teaching and learning LGBTQ history to create a more inclusive and equitable picture of US History, reflect student identities in the history we teach, and inspire future Upstanders.
Picture books for children about the experience of knowing or having a gay parent, family member, or friend, as well as books for gender nonconforming kids.
