An introduction to high school teachers about teaching LGBT history in California. http://queerhistory.pbworks.com/

1. Welcome!
Santa Cruz County LGBTQ
History Professional Learning
Program Participants (PLP)
December 2016

2.  Be Yourself
 Your strengths
 We are your
support team
A Safe Space Here !

3.  Group of teachers in the state to work together to
understand and teach LGBT History
 To impact your students in the coming months so that
curriculum and teaching is both a mirror and a window
 Because:
 When students see themselves in the curriculum
they are more engaged in learning
 One aspect that leads to more safe and inclusive
school climate
You are among
the first !

4.  District and School Policies
 Leadership
 Curriculum and Teaching (LGBT History /
Inclusive Sex Ed)
 Ongoing professional learning
 Yearly Events in support of LGBTQ Youth
 Ongoing school climate plan and evaluation
 Health Services (AIDS Education / Safe Sex, etc.)
 Mental Health Services (Coming Out / Bullying)
Safe and Inclusive Schools include:

5.  Share what you do in this grant with your
principal and colleagues (to increase their
knowledge and understanding)
 Integrate LGBT history in the context of what
you already teach in history (not a stand alone
lesson)
 More teachers who teach LGBT history lessons
= more students benefit
= safer and inclusive schools
Our Hopes

6.  Thanks to the Diversity Fund of the Community
Foundation for Santa Cruz County for Grant
 Pre-Test of Your Knowledge
(there will be a Post-Test in May)
 Expectations Document to Sign
 Parking Lot
 Questions / Clarifications?
A Little Housekeeping

7.  Find a partner
 Name, school, position
 What you are most looking forward to as
part of this PLP cohort of teachers
 What was your outcome from the Implicit
Associate Test: Sexuality IAT?
 Introduce your partner to the group
Introductions

8.  What day/time for our monthly check-in
coffee meetings in January, February, March
and April? (4:00 on which day?)
 Date for final day long meeting (paid by
grant)
 Day / Week of: May 1, 8 or 15 ?
Logistics

9.  A series of causes and effects
 Made up of events and people
 To help form a more perfect union
 Early American history classrooms and textbooks
 LGBT history is American history
(and now the law in the State of California –
FAIR Act passed in 2011)
 A few people for you to meet:
Teaching
History:
What We Know

10.  African American male born in Pennsylvania
 Organizer of the Civil Rights march on Washington
in 1963 (when Martin Luther King delivered the “I
Have a Dream Speech”)
 Close associate of Martin Luther King
 Openly gay man
Bayard Rustin (1912-
1987)

11.  White male born in Chicago
 Decorated Army Colonel
 Coordinated a 120 person classified defense department
group following 911 attacks / $8 mil budget
 2004: Began transition from male to female
 2004: Offered a job at Library Congress but it was
rescinded after Schroer shared she was transgender
 2008: Sued the Library of Congress and won
(Schroer v. Billington, Library of Congress Director)
Diane Schroer
(1946 - )

12.  Latino male born in New York
 1969: Part of the Stonewall Riots in New York
 1970: Co-founded the Street Transvestite Action
Revolutionaries (STAR), a group dedicated to
helping homeless young drag queens and trans
women of color
 Identified as female and lived most of her life as a
drag queen in New York
Sylvia Rivera (1951-
2002)

13.  Born white females in California and Oklahoma
 Del: Writer, Journalist and Community Organizer
 Phyllis: College Professor
 1955: Founded Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) in San
Francisco
 Partners for 56 years living in San Francisco
 2004 and 2008: Married twice in California
 Open lesbians
Del Martin (1921-2008)
and Phyllis Lyon (1924- )

14.  White male born in New York
 Served in Army during World War II
 1956: PhD from Harvard In Astronomy
 1957: Hired by federal government
 1959: Released from government service
because of Executive Order 10450 signed
by President Eisenhower that
considered homosexuals as “sexual
deviants” and unfit for government
service
 Lived to see the reversal of “Don’t Ask
Don’t Tell” and the ban on LGBT people
from serving in government and military
 Created slogan, “Gay is Good”
 Openly gay man following government
dismissal
Frank Kameny (1925-2011)

15.  Five themes in history
from the new
California History-
Social Science
Framework adopted in
July 2016.
The Curriculum
Guide

16.  Romantic Friendships Increase Women’s Rights
(1890-1930)
 Gays in the Military from the Civil War to Don’t Ask
Don’t Tell (1860-2010)
 Harlem Renaissance: As Gay as it was Black (1917-
1935)
 The Lavender Scare and the 1950s (1918-2011)
 Amendments, Laws and Court Decisions Expand
Equality (1868-2015)
The Curriculum Themes

17.  Alignment to history standards
 Integration tips
 Background history of theme
 Suggested lesson
 Online website with documents to download
and print (as needed)
 http://queerhistory.pbworks.com/
Organization

18.  Learning about LGBTQ Vocabulary
Jamie Cutter

19.  On your phone or computer:
 Website: Kahoot.it
 Enter Game PIN.
Kahoot

20.  Tuesdays, 4:00-5:30 (some coffee shop TBA)
 Jan. 24; Feb. 28; March 28; April 25
 Full Day: Friday. May 12 – 8:45-3:00.
Future Meetings