Unheard Voices: Stories of LGBT History. The History and Impact of Anti-LGBT Slurs In this lesson students listen to the oral history of an advocate for LGBT family rights, and use her personal story as a vehicle for considering how anti-LGBT attitudes are formed. Students explore the derivation of the words “gay,” “faggot” and “dyke” in order to better understand the long history of judgment and hate behind these words. They also reflect on the testimony of LGBT teens about the impact of terms like “that’s so gay.”
Students will reflect on the oral history of an individual involved in the LGBT rights movement. Students will learn about the history of anti-LGBT slurs. Students will analyze media ads about anti-LGBT language. Students will identify ways to reduce their use of hurtful language. download here (.pdf format – requires Acrobat Reader) Time: 55-70 mins. or two class periods Grade Level: Grades 6 & up Key Words and Phrases: advocate (n.), demoralized, heretic, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender), offensive, slur. Download Lesbian Movies. Epic Gallery: 150 Years Of Lesbians And Other Lady-Loving-Ladies. Click here for more posts from “the herstory issue” // “the way we were” I really threw myself into Herstory Month, in June, eating every accessible herstory archive on the internet and spending hours in the library, accumulating massive stacks of borrowed books which I stored at the foot of my bed.
My girlfriend was not a big fan of the stacks of books at the foot of the bed. I was looking for words but eventually, also, for pictures. Honestly before tumblr it was difficult to find very much lesbian imagery at all online — it was always the same ten or twelve stock photos — let alone pictures of lesbians taken prior to 2000. I wanted to see an evolution of our community, how we’d grown and changed over the years — and not just in a montage of famous out actresses and models, but pictures of actual people, pictures of women who were active in the community — regular human beings, writers and social activists. So I started collecting them. 150 Years of Lady-Loving-Ladies In The U.S. 1850s. Secret Lesbians — 19th Century Queer Couples 1. 1891 – Photo by... The Lesbian Handbook.com. The Feminist eZine - 1001 Feminist Links and Other Interesting Topics. Download Lesbian Movies. Epic Gallery: 150 Years Of Lesbians And Other Lady-Loving-Ladies.
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