Topic: LGBTQ+ History

Student Edition:
The Origins of Disco

Grades: High
Subjects: ELA, Social Studies/History

lesson:
The Origins of Disco

Grades: High
Subjects: ELA, Ethnic Studies, General Music, Social Studies/History

What are the cultural, economic, and geographic origins of Disco and how has the genre been presented, remembered, and represented in popular culture?

lesson:
Intersectionality and Punk Music in the 2020s

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: General Music, Social Emotional Learning

What is intersectionality, and how do musicians in the Punk music scene navigate life at different intersections?

lesson:
Writing Personal Narratives and The Harlem Renaissance

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: ELA, Social Studies/History

How do Langston Hughes, Gladys Bentley, and Louis Armstrong effectively write personal narratives about living during the Harlem Renaissance?

Student Edition:
Art, Music, and the AIDS Epidemic

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High
Subjects: Art/Design, Social Studies/History

Trace It Back:
Big Freedia

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High, Middle

lesson:
“Y’all Better Quiet Down”: Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ Pioneers

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High
Subjects: Social Studies/History

How did Black and Latinx people in the LGBTQ+ community take initiative in the Stonewall Inn rebellions, Gay Liberation Movement, and in the preservation of LGBTQ+ history?

lesson:
The Journey to Marriage Equality in the United States

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: Civics, Social Studies/History

How did same-sex marriage become legal in the United States?

lesson:
Art, Music, and the AIDS Epidemic

Grades: AP/Honors/101, High
Subjects: Art/Design, Social Emotional Learning, Social Studies/History

How did the LGTBQ+ community creatively respond to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, and protest government inaction in addressing the epidemic?

lesson:
“Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall”: The Stonewall Riots in the Fight for Equality

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: Civics, Social Studies/History

What were the Stonewall Riots, and what role did they play in ongoing struggles for LGBTQ+ equality in the United States?