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Resources for teaching and learning about LGBTQ History.
Promising Practices and Guides for Inclusive Schools and Teaching LGBTQ History
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- Diversity Practices for Teaching Online (2020)
- Teaching LGBTQ History – Educator’s Guide (2019)
- Textbook Selection Tools for Inclusive Textbooks (2018)
- Teaching Gender in the Classroom K-12 (2020) – Gender Primary Source Activity
LGBT History Lesson Plans
- Our Family Coalition – LGBTQHistory.org
- Our Family Coalition – Gender Primary Source Activity
- ONEArchives LGBTQ History Lesson Plans
- UCB History Social Science Project
- UCLA History-Geography Project
- Constitutional Rights Foundation
LGBT History Curriculum Guides and Workshop Content
- Santa Cruz MAH Queer Santa Cruz Online Exhibit
- Santa Cruz Safe Schools Project – 8th Grade * 11th Grade
- Quick LGBT History Lessons for GSA Clubs
- 11th Grade LGBT History Resources
- 8th Grade LGBT History Resources
- 11th Grade History Teacher Workshop Content
- 8th Grade History Teacher Workshop Content
LGBT History Timelines
- LGBTQHistory.org
- Santa Cruz Safe Schools Project
- CNN
- GLSEN
- NY Times Significant Events in Transgender History
LGBT History Primary Source Locations
- CSU Monterey Bay LGBT Archives
- GLBT Archives (San Francisco)
- LAMBDA Archives (San Diego)
- One Archives (Los Angeles)
- Online Archive of California Search
- Out History (New York)
Literature Lists
- California Department of Education Recommended Books
- Stonewall Book Awards – Added children’s books in 2010
- Welcoming Schools Diverse Books Booklist.
- Lambda Literary Awards – Includes children’s books
- American Library Association – Rainbow Books List
- List of Book Awards that are awarded yearly for children’s books
Media/Podcasts
- Santa Cruz Queer History Webinars
- Video: “Making History: The FAIR Education Act.” Our Family Coalition, San Francisco, 2017. (10 Minutes).
- Video: “Don’t Erase My History”. Frameline, San Francisco, 2015. (30 minutes)
- Video: “Transgender Basics.” – Gender Identity Project New York City, 2009. (20 minutes)
- Webinar: Webinars about LGBT History. Rob Darrow, Santa Cruz, 2017.
- Podcast: Making Gay History Podcast. Eric Marcus, New York, 2016-2019.
- Podcast: History is Gay Podcast. Leigh and Gretchen, 2018-2019.
- Podcast: Queer America from Teaching Tolerance. Guest academics talk about queer history. 2018-2019.
- Podcast: Mattachine Podcast. All about the history of the Mattachine Society. (1950s and 1960s)
- App: QUIST App About Queer History.
Articles/Documents
- California Department of Education. California History Social Science Framework. Adopted July 14, 2016.
- Blair, Karen. Has Gender Always Been Binary? Psychology Today Blogpost, September 16, 2018.
- National Park Service LGBTQ Theme Study (2016). Collection of 32 different historical articles about LGBT history.
- Romesburg, D., Rupp, L.J., Donahue, D.M. (2014). Making the Framework FAIR: California History-Social Science Framework Proposed LGBT Revisions Related to the FAIR Education Act. San Francisco, CA: Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History.
- Styles, Emily. “Curriculum as Window and Mirror.” Listening for All Voices, Oak Knoll School monograph, Summit, NJ, 1988.
Books
- Barker, Meg-John and Scheele, Julia. Queer: A Graphic History. London, Icon Books, 2016
- Bronksi, Michael. Queer History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Books, 2011.
- Bronski, Michael. A Queer History of the United States For Young People. Boston: Beacon Books, 2019.
- Lindsay, Randall et al. A Culturally Proficient Response to LGBT Communities: A Guide for Educators. Corwin, 2013. Amazon
- Meyer, Elizabeth and Sansfacon, Annie Pullen. Supporting Transgender & Gender Creative Youth. Peter Lang, 2014
- Meyer, Elizabeth J. Gender and Sexual Diversity in Schools. New York: Springer, 2010.
- Romesburg, Don, Ed. The Routledge History of Queer America. Routledge, 2018.
- Rupp, Leila J. and Freeman, Susan K. Eds. Understanding and Teaching: U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History. The University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.
- Stryker, Susan. Transgender History, second edition: The Roots of Today’s Revolution. Berkeley: Seal Press, 2017.
District, School and Curriculum Tools for Becoming LGBTQ+ Culturally Proficient (in your school or district or county)
- Guide for Starting the Conversation / LGBTQ Cultural Proficiency
- Guide for Teachers: Supporting LGBTQ+ Students, A Primer
- Teaching LGBT History: An Educator’s Guide
- LGBTQ Cultural Proficiency Assessment
- Inclusive Language to Use
- Policies and Practices for Supporting LGBTQ+ Students
- Laws and Policies in California
- LGBTQ+ School Climate Index for Schools
Curriculum Tools: Sample Curriculum Calendars with LGBT content included
- LGBT History Correlation to Framework – Grades K-5 * Grade 8 * Grade 11
- Textbook Selection Tools Grades K-5, Grade 8 and Grade 11
- Sample Surveys to Use with Staff
- Primary Source Gender Activity (and Documents to Use)