Johnson and Stonewall when we get to our unit on social movements of the 1960s later in the year, and I shared some resources on LGBTQ history (see teaching materials below). I promised him that we will talk about Marsha P. He suggested that we talk about her in class. Johnson on Tik Tok- the Black transgender woman who was a Gay Liberation activist and is most well-known in folk histories for throwing the first brick at police in the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969. Days later, I received another email from him in which he passionately voiced his frustration about not having learned any LGBTQ+ history: “Out of my 11 years in the American Education system, I have never heard of LGBTQ+ activists nor history.” He went on to tell me that he had learned about Marsha P. These are identities that we share and that he is not used to seeing in school. Within my first month of taking on this new role, a student reached out to let me know how excited he was to have a gay male teacher. Upon returning from Winter Break earlier this year, I got a new crop of students having gone from a student teaching position in 8th grade to lead teaching 10th U.S.
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