I led a workshop for students to highlight moments from the (US) LGBT Movement (since 1950). Students had a chance to look at protest buttons, signs, and logos as well as read a few sentences about each. We then arranged them on a timeline and discussed them — I was fortunate to be joined by several adults & students with significant experiences with the timeline. The workshop closed with students making their own modern-day-old-fashioned-protest buttons.
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We had amazing questions from curious kids:
- How did it happen that lesbians, gays, and bisexuals came to work with transgender people? The first category is about sexuality and the other is about gender.
- What does pansexual mean?
- What happened to you if you told during Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
- If gays are men and lesbians are women, how come this Ellen picture says “Yep, I’m gay”?
The LGBT kids who attended told me they appreciated the chance to learn their history (my main goal). The non-LGBT kids, that they had a chance to ask some questions and generally learn something new. I’m eternally grateful for the opportunity to teach those 40 students about LGBT history.
Megan Hayes-Golding 
Wish there was a love button next to the post, not just a like button! They are so lucky to have you, Megan.
Aww, thanks Wendy! I can’t believe people let me talk about this stuff with students. Sometimes I’m my head’s still back in the 90s when it wasn’t something teachers talked about with students.