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<blockquote data-quote="Snattlerake" data-source="post: 3791914" data-attributes="member: 44288"><p>The programs are being assigned as curriculum in schools.</p><p></p><p></p><p>More disgusting stuff.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://time.com/" target="_blank"><img src="https://time.com/img/time-logo-red.svg" alt="Time logo" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><h3>As More States Require Schools to Teach LGBTQ History, Resources for Teachers Expand</h3><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://time.com/5747670/lgbtq-history-resources/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>BY <a href="https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/" target="_blank">OLIVIA B. WAXMAN </a></p><p> </p><p>DECEMBER 13, 2019 10:20 AM EST</p><p>Larah Helayne of Mount Sterling, Ky., <strong><span style="color: rgb(209, 72, 65)">always knew she was attracted to women</span>,</strong> but she<strong> <span style="color: rgb(209, 72, 65)">planned to become a nun</span></strong> until about a year ago. Falling in love changed her plans. She didn’t know much about LGBTQ history — mostly just what she’d learned about the <a href="https://time.com/5440824/freddie-mercury-celebrity-aids-awareness/" target="_blank">HIV/AIDS crisis</a> from <em>Rent</em> and <em>The Normal Heart </em>— but it didn’t take long to realize that the past could help her understand her own experiences.</p><p>While driving to see her then-girlfriend, she heard an episode of the podcast <em><a href="https://makinggayhistory.com/about/" target="_blank">Making Gay History</a></em> about <a href="https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/episode-14-jean-oleary-part-1/" target="_blank">Jean O’Leary</a>, a former nun who organized the first meeting of lesbian and gay-rights activists at the White House on March 26, 1977, and co-founded <a href="http://www.hrc.org/resources/national-coming-out-day" target="_blank">National Coming Out Day</a>, first marked in 1988.</p><p>After listening to that episode, Helayne, 18, began to come out to friends, family and classmates. As she opened up, others opened up to her in turn, sharing their own stories of their genders and sexualities — and she saw that her own realization about history could help them too. Soon, Helayne started an LGBTQ affinity group at Montgomery County High School.</p><p>“I just realized that all of these people who came before me didn’t fight so I could hate myself and so I could just hide,” she says. “It helped give me the courage to come out publicly. I realized how much history there was that was being kept from me and from everyone.”</p><p>Helayne is one of countless American students and teachers searching for material on the historical roles of people with diverse gender and sexual identities. And increasingly, that material is moving into the classroom, with five states having announced in 2019 that LGBTQ history must be taught in public schools. California became <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/us/15gay.html" target="_blank">the first state to require schools to teach LGBTQ history</a> in 2011, with <a href="https://time.com/5022698/california-history-lgbt-textbooks-curriculum/" target="_blank">the first K-8 textbooks</a> approved to meet new state standards emerging six years later. Even so, mechanisms for enforcement, funding and teacher training are often unclear.</p><p>On Friday, the news aggregator Newsela, which brings together news articles and primary sources for classroom use, announced the launch of the Newsela LGBTQIA+ Studies Collection. Newsela is used by more than 25 million students and 2 million teachers in 90% U.S. school districts, and this collection is the first time the company has assembled a collection of articles on a single topic, with material at various grade levels and accompanying lesson plans. The collection comes after a successful pilot program in 12 school districts in New Jersey, one of the five states — along with <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/08/16/maryland-schools-aim-include-lgbt-disability-rights-history-curriculum/" target="_blank">Maryland</a>, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/11/us/illinois-lgbtq-history-curriculum-trnd/index.html" target="_blank">Illinois</a>, <a href="https://coloradosun.com/2019/05/31/colorado-judes-law-gay-conversion-therapy/" target="_blank">Colorado</a> and <a href="https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2017/07/01/oregon-is-now-the-only-state-to-have-required-ethnic-studies-curriculum-for-k-12-students/" target="_blank">Oregon</a> — that have added LGBTQ history requirements in the last year.</p><p>“Our priority was to get something into teachers’ hands as fast as possible,” says Walt Peters, Senior Business Manager of Content Solutions at Newsela.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snattlerake, post: 3791914, member: 44288"] The programs are being assigned as curriculum in schools. More disgusting stuff. [URL='https://time.com/'][IMG alt="Time logo"]https://time.com/img/time-logo-red.svg[/IMG][/URL] [HEADING=2]As More States Require Schools to Teach LGBTQ History, Resources for Teachers Expand[/HEADING] [URL unfurl="true"]https://time.com/5747670/lgbtq-history-resources/[/URL] BY [URL='https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/']OLIVIA B. WAXMAN [/URL] DECEMBER 13, 2019 10:20 AM EST Larah Helayne of Mount Sterling, Ky., [B][COLOR=rgb(209, 72, 65)]always knew she was attracted to women[/COLOR],[/B] but she[B] [COLOR=rgb(209, 72, 65)]planned to become a nun[/COLOR][/B] until about a year ago. Falling in love changed her plans. She didn’t know much about LGBTQ history — mostly just what she’d learned about the [URL='https://time.com/5440824/freddie-mercury-celebrity-aids-awareness/']HIV/AIDS crisis[/URL] from [I]Rent[/I] and [I]The Normal Heart [/I]— but it didn’t take long to realize that the past could help her understand her own experiences. While driving to see her then-girlfriend, she heard an episode of the podcast [I][URL='https://makinggayhistory.com/about/']Making Gay History[/URL][/I] about [URL='https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/episode-14-jean-oleary-part-1/']Jean O’Leary[/URL], a former nun who organized the first meeting of lesbian and gay-rights activists at the White House on March 26, 1977, and co-founded [URL='http://www.hrc.org/resources/national-coming-out-day']National Coming Out Day[/URL], first marked in 1988. After listening to that episode, Helayne, 18, began to come out to friends, family and classmates. As she opened up, others opened up to her in turn, sharing their own stories of their genders and sexualities — and she saw that her own realization about history could help them too. Soon, Helayne started an LGBTQ affinity group at Montgomery County High School. “I just realized that all of these people who came before me didn’t fight so I could hate myself and so I could just hide,” she says. “It helped give me the courage to come out publicly. I realized how much history there was that was being kept from me and from everyone.” Helayne is one of countless American students and teachers searching for material on the historical roles of people with diverse gender and sexual identities. And increasingly, that material is moving into the classroom, with five states having announced in 2019 that LGBTQ history must be taught in public schools. California became [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/us/15gay.html']the first state to require schools to teach LGBTQ history[/URL] in 2011, with [URL='https://time.com/5022698/california-history-lgbt-textbooks-curriculum/']the first K-8 textbooks[/URL] approved to meet new state standards emerging six years later. Even so, mechanisms for enforcement, funding and teacher training are often unclear. On Friday, the news aggregator Newsela, which brings together news articles and primary sources for classroom use, announced the launch of the Newsela LGBTQIA+ Studies Collection. Newsela is used by more than 25 million students and 2 million teachers in 90% U.S. school districts, and this collection is the first time the company has assembled a collection of articles on a single topic, with material at various grade levels and accompanying lesson plans. The collection comes after a successful pilot program in 12 school districts in New Jersey, one of the five states — along with [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/08/16/maryland-schools-aim-include-lgbt-disability-rights-history-curriculum/']Maryland[/URL], [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/11/us/illinois-lgbtq-history-curriculum-trnd/index.html']Illinois[/URL], [URL='https://coloradosun.com/2019/05/31/colorado-judes-law-gay-conversion-therapy/']Colorado[/URL] and [URL='https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2017/07/01/oregon-is-now-the-only-state-to-have-required-ethnic-studies-curriculum-for-k-12-students/']Oregon[/URL] — that have added LGBTQ history requirements in the last year. “Our priority was to get something into teachers’ hands as fast as possible,” says Walt Peters, Senior Business Manager of Content Solutions at Newsela. [/QUOTE]
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