Posted on 09/19/2014 7:23:47 PM PDT by massmike
The push to require that “gay history” be taught in the nation’s is already in place in California and is now making headway in Massachusetts. The LGBT teachers conference brought in techniques that activists can use to expedite that process around the country.
This is the sixth part in our series on this year's annual GLSEN (Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network) Conference held in Boston in April 2014 which brought together LGBT teachers, school officials, and education activists (and their "allies") -- along with children as young as fifth grade -- where they outlined their latest tactics for the schools.
“Gay history” is an important psychological tool that homosexual movement uses to convince schoolchildren that homosexual behavior is a normal and positive influence in society. By making it part of the school curriculum -- with lectures, exams, term papers, etc. – it becomes ingrained in kids’ minds. Thus, students would never question its legitimacy -- and legitimacy is an obsessive goal of the homosexual movement.
Perhaps more disturbing, “gay history” introduces deviant figures such as Harvey Milk (a sexual predator of teenage boys), pro-NAMBLA activist Harry Hay, and other “gay pioneers” (some of whom were pornographers) as legitimate historical figures worthy of admiration. Plus it often teaches kids the unproven political “quackery” that famous people such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Julius Caesar, and even Abraham Lincoln were homosexual.
For example, soon after the California law was passed, one LGBT social studies teacher in San Francisco in an interview with a high school newspaper gave a taste of what what “gay history” should include:
In considering the possibilities, [the teacher] described potential lesson plans featuring rumored gay authors such as William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman and famous court cases involving gay defendants like that of Lawrence v. Texas, a 2003 court case that ended Texas’ sodomy law.
hat “gay history” push has been slowly but steadily progressing. Since the 1990s individual “gay activist” teachers have woven homosexual themes into their classes, including history lessons. Over a decade ago “gay history month” displays began to appear in “progressive” school districts, and that has spread across the country. For over a decade, national LGBT groups have trained teachers how to incorporate “gay rights” into history classes.
In 2011, California passed Senate Bill 48, the Orwellian-labeled “FAIR Education Act.” It requires that the “historical contributions” of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans” be included in courses, instructional material, and textbooks in California Public Schools. Furthermore, the law includes prohibition of any “materials that reflect adversely” on LGBT persons or the movement. This onerous law was the result of a well-crafted campaign by the homosexual lobby, spearheaded by a homosexual activist state legislator, and actively supported by the liberal press.
This was such an abrupt change that Grades K-8 have been given until July 1, 2015 to comply, but high schools are required to move as fast as possible. Many California high schools are rolling out their new “gay” curricula this month – September 2014.
This year the conference had a special workshop to show teachers and activists how a “gay history” mandate was successfully effected in one school district in Massachusetts. Here’s how the conference program listed it:
2.5 Reversing the Erasure of LGBT History Using Los Angeles Unified School District and Lowell School District as case studies, this workshop examines strategies for introducing vital LGBT inclusive history curriculum into schools.
Presenter(s): Debra Fowler, Debbie Costello & Erin Kehoe, Lowell High School
This was one of the best-attended workshops of the conference. The room was full. The main presenter was Debra Fowler, who teaches English as a second language at Lowell High School.
The workshop was largely a how-to description of how Fowler and others were able to pressure Lowell High School in Lowell, MA to make “LGBT history” mandatory in the 11th grade. She is also the producer of a very slick and emotional video, “Through Gay Eyes”, which is also now a required part of the Lowell High School curriculum and was shown at the workshop. And they are taking steps to push this statewide (and eventually nationwide).
Fowler showed her video “Through Gay Eyes” to the workshop. Some of the messages in the video, which Fowler also talked about) are:
Kids need to know they have a gay teacher. The teacher was uneasy about coming out to students, but did anyway. Boston TV News Anchor Randy Price "married" his boyfriend on the State House steps. The world is evolving and changing. It’s wrong to oppose people’s beliefs when they don’t affect you. Children shouldn't have to worry about growing up with a gay parent. Fowler described her successful strategy for getting the politicians, school administrators, and faculty all to sign on to requiring “gay history” (and more) at Lowell High School. She said her emotional video “Through Gay Eyes” was used as a “catalyst.”
Starting in August, 2013, she made sure that as many students as possible -- and also the key politicians, administrators, and faculty –attended a screening of the video. Although the messages from the video do not have a direct relationship to “gay history” it gave them an emotional attachment to the cause, which was even more important. Then she had hundreds of students and faculty sign two petitions demanding that the video and “LGBT history” be included in the curriculum.
The final step was the Lowell School Committee. At the November 20, 2013 meeting she arranged to have the necessary items on the agenda, and she packed the room with supporters. The two petitions were presented to the Mayor, superintendent, and members of the School Committee to sign themselves, which they all did. All their agenda items were passed unanimously. Thus, the following was accomplished by Fowler and her activists:
Lowell High School would require “gay history” in the 11th grade, starting in September 2014. The video “Through Gay Eyes” would be required in the middle and high school health curriculum. The School Committee officially endorsed proposed changes to the Massachusetts Common Core curriculum to include LGBT individuals and events in 11th-grade U.S. History courses statewide. That is the next big push for the LGBT lobby in Massachusetts, they’ve said.
At the workshop, Fowler acknowledged that she got a help from “gay” educators and activists in California. One important thing she told the group: “The lessons are not ‘stand-alone’ lessons,” she said. “The lessons are seamlessly woven into history.”
In closing, Fowler told the workshop, “Reach out to people who can make changes in curriculum. You have the power!”
The homosexual movement is not leaving anything to chance. They are already preparing course material for “gay history” mandates, as well as supplying it to individual activist teachers. GLSEN, the well-funded national organization that organized this LGBT teachers conference, is at the forefront of creating LGBT curriculum for all grades.
Kevin Jennings, former Obama "Safe Schools Czar" and founder of GLSEN, edited a gay and lesbian history source book for high school and college classes, Becoming Visible. Included is a chapter praising NAMBLA supporter Harry Hay, along with a portrayal of "gay cruising" (anonymous homosexual sex acts in public places) as a "civil rights" issue!
Another recommended book is Transgender Warrior by Leslie Feinberg. Massachusetts Youth Pride honored Feinberg in 2005, inviting her to lead the youth parade. Besides being a radical transgender activist, she is openly communist and was then editor of Workers World.
It can certainly be daunting that major US corporations like Google, Wells Fargo, McDonalds, Target, CitiBank, Disney, Mattel, IBM, and others are funding the homosexual agenda in the schools. But nevertheless, parents and citizens can do amazing things to stop this.
It’s entirely possible keep this from happening. The biggest problem on our side (besides funding) has been that parents have been unaware of what’s happening, are not armed with good information to counter the activists, and have no effective strategies for counteracting their slick lobbying effort.
We at MassResistance are working to help with that. Exposing this is the start.
meanwhile a recent survey showed most Americans are clueless about their Constitution.
Leftists want Americans dumb and high on pot.
In the beginning God made man. God saw that man was lonely so He made him a companion, Evan.
The End.
But the American people don't know this.
Queericulum....
Bet ya a $100 God is not happy about this. He says clearly that homosexuality is an abomination.
Question for the teacher:
How did homosexuality contribute to their achievements?
Yep, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah comes to mind if they really want to teach “gay” history. And, oh yeah - what happened to those cities for their “gay” activities. Should be a whole new twist on their teaching.
Get your children out of the public schools (government indoctrination centers) - NOW!
Yep. All of the shows aren’t queer-oriented though. “Roseanne” and “The Golden Girls” are part of their line up. We get that channel but I don’t watch it. I want nothing to do with this incessant LBGT crap.
How can anyone think this deviancy is normal?
Are they going to include a chapter on Sodom And Gomorrah?
Start with the one in the white hut...
...”How can anyone think this deviancy is normal?”....
Everybody knows it’s not....equal rights because a pervert wants to park his frontage where the sun doesn’t shine as reason for his cause?
What’s at issue are those who are buying the “political power” this group of perverts welds now....and keeping it alive while they manipulate the stage.
Start with the one in the white hut...
Well he’s just using them for political leverage when useful. But who is ‘actually’ orchestrating the layout of the land for them to go out and “strike” the areas they pop up in....
They will teach the first instance of sodomy and it’s importance to the development of Western Civ?
This is silly. They “the homosexuals” will never allow the real history of homosexuals to be taught. They are speaking about the new PC definition of their perversion and they will apply it to the real history, which includes the fact is was a crime for centuries and a mental illness for centuries.
Oh, probably Lincoln was gay in textbooks. Poor children who have to suck up this drivel.
I guess I missed the gays claiming Isadora. I read her book as a kid and other books on her but never came across her being gay!
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