Okay so at school we have a social studies textbook that mentions Star Trek and The Wizard of Oz (Both which I love.) But doesn't mention Stonewall, The Gay Rights Movement, The LGBT victims of the Holocaust, I'd rather be a foot note than not get mentioned at all. Finally they mention all the president's wives (or in Thomas Jefferson's case since his wife died before he became president his wife's half sister who was a slave and whom he had a long relationship with) but never once mention Buchanan's life partner, Rufus King.
They don't mention any gay people, That will breed more homophobia, if we kids don't see them in history we will think they just came and just started fighting.
And we LGBT kids, If we don't know our past we won't have a future.
Is there anyway to make my school get new textbooks that teach us about not only 'regular' history but LGBT history? And if so do you have any suggestions about how to go about it and a series thats good for it?
2007-02-01
22:44:27
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