LGBTQ History

UCBHSSP and the FAIR Act

UCBHSSP has worked with teachers and scholars over the last few years to think about how we can support teachers in implementing the FAIR Act(link is external). Above are links to lessons we have developed for classroom use. While the FAIR Act applies explicitly to US History, we have also worked with world history teachers on asking questions of gender and sexuality about the past. Consequently, you can find a link to world history lessons as well. Our work has been informed by this advocacy document(link is external) authored by scholars of the history of gender and sexuality, and particularly the work of Professor Don Romesburg(link is external).

Diversity Practices for Distance Learning(link is external)

Compiled by the Our Family Coalition(link is external) in Summer 2020.

UCBHSSP's LGBTQ Lesson Plans

• Charley Parkhurst and the California Gold Rush(link is external) (4th & 8th grade)

• Charity and Sylvia (link is external)(5th grade)

• Love, War, and Honor in Ancient Greece(link is external) (6th grade)

• Baron von Steuben and the Continental Army(link is external) (8th Grade)

• The Lavender Scare and McCarthyism(link is external) (11th grade)  This lesson was awarded the Committee on LGBTQ History of the American Historical Association's inaugural Don Romesburg Prize for a K-12 lesson plan on LGBT History(link is external).

Recommended LGBTQ History Resources

• FAIR Act FAQs(link is external)
• Making the Framework FAIR(link is external)

• LGBT and Gender History in the H-SS Framework(link is external) (line inclusions)

• Our Family Coalition - FAIR Act Resources(link is external)

• Rob Darrow, Ed.D. Website(link is external)

• "What is Trans History?"(link is external)

• LGBT History Resources(link is external), Library of Congress

• UCLA History Geography Project/ONE Archive(link is external)

• Hidden Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories in US History (NYC DOE)(link is external)

• History UnErased(link is external)

• LGBTQ Heritage Theme Study, National Park Service(link is external)

• Bay Area Lesbian Archive(link is external)

• GLBT Historical Society(link is external)

• Gender, Sexuality, and the Holocaust(link is external), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum(link is external)

Disability Resources

• Teaching the FAIR Act through Disability History(link is external) (CHSSP)

• Overview of the History of People with Disabilities in the US(link is external)

• Resouces for Teaching Disability History(link is external), Emerging America

• Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability(link is external), San Francisco State University