Unit 4: Civil Rights and the LGBTQIA community

Questions:

What are some ways that LGBTQIA communities have participated in the struggle for civil rights? What are several important civil rights issues for LGBTQIA communities?

Materials:

“Queer America” (podcast for teachers, Teaching Tolerance)
Episodes 9 (40 minutes) and 10 (46 minutes) examine LGBTQ history within a context of the 1960s and other civil rights movements

“Stonewall Uprising” (PBS documentary)
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/stonewall/

A Queer History of the United States For Young People (2019, book) Michael Bronski. Excerpts TBD.

Begin reading Juliet Takes A Breath (novel)

Stonewall Forever: 50 years of LGBTQ history (documentary, 35 mins)
https://stonewallforever.org/documentary

Transgender

Trans Awareness Project (website, “Trans Discrimination,” FAQ, Resources sections especially)

https://www.transawareness.org/

9 Strategies For Dealing With Body Dysphoria This Trans Awareness Week (The Body Is Not An Apology, website)

https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/9-strategies-for-dealing-with-body-dysphoria-for-gender-queer-and-trans-folks/

Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey

https://www.thetaskforce.org/injustice-every-turn-report-national-transgender-discrimination-survey/

Glossary of Terms-Transgender (GLAAD, website)

https://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender

Books:

She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders (memoir), Jennifer Finney Boylan
Stone Butch Blues and Drag King Dreams (novels), Leslie Feinberg
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde
Loving in the War Years, Cherríe Morgan
The Necessary Hunger, Nina Revoyr