GLSEN: Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network: News

GLSEN is proud to be a part of LGBT History Month. We invite you to participate in your own locale, with the resources and the creativity that you can bring to this work. October is a month of pride and a month of remembrance. It is about visibility and acknowledgment. It is about you. Join the celebration!

GLSEN Provides Educator Resources for LGBT History Month
The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, or GLSEN, celebrates Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month by providing new resources for educators. October is a month of pride, remembrance, visibility and acknowledgement. GLSEN encourages the education community to include the accomplishments and history of LGBT people in America’s schools this month and all year round.

Why We Need A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) History Month
Provides a rationale for including LGBT History Month in school programming as well as concrete ideas for incorporating activities into school life.

Celebrate LGBT History Month in Your School
Use this short guide to plan a powerful Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) History Month in your school

Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) History Month
This resource provides ideas, bibliographic information and web links for teachers planning to incorporate LGBT History Month into their curriculum.

Tips for Teaching with Gay Pioneers
Gay Pioneers is a half-hour documentary produced by Equality Forum in conjunction with WHYY, Philadelphia’s public television station. It focuses on the first public protests for equal rights for gay and lesbian people, staged at governmental offices and historic landmarks in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. between 1965 and 1969, through archival footage and interviews with the participants who are still living.

LGBT History Month Resources
This page provides links to a variety of resources for integrating LGBT History Month into school curricula and programming.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) History Month Resources
Includes 20 ideas for incorporating LGBT History Month (October) into both school and community programming, as well as a bibliography of resources, a timeline of LGBT history, and a LGBT history quiz.

History Match-Up
History Match-Up game with cards for 17 historical figures and corresponding bios.

Breaking the Code on LGBT History
Explores the life Alan Turing, one of this century's greatest mathematicians and war heroes, and offers concrete suggestions for teaching about his life in class.

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