Pride Month Reading List: 10 LGBTQ+ Books for Students
Celebrate the history and contributions of the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month by sharing these books with students.
Celebrate the history and contributions of the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month by sharing these books with students.
I started my teaching career at a public middle school in Toronto about two decades ago. At that time, I was not comfortable being personally out to my students.
There is a world out there for which we are preparing our children, and that world includes people who identify as LGBTQ+.
It isn’t easy to teach the history of homosexuality in Canada. We interviewed three gay men who were there and remember what it was like growing up before Decriminalization.
By removing the phrase “male person” from the crime of gross indecency in 1954, the Canadian government declared sex between women a crime.
Gender fluid. Two-spirit. Trans. Cisgender. These are some of the terms students can use to describe where they are on the spectrum of sexual orientation and gender identity.
In my Grade 10 Canadian History course, students explore LGBTQ+ history the same way they explore the stories of many different Canadians in the context of our history.
The persistence of violence against LGBTQ+ people in countries where homosexuality is legal remains worrisome and creates a refugee situation that is not that easy to prove.