A bill just signed into law in Washington will require all schools to include LGBTQ history in their lessons.
WASHINGTON, USA — “LGBTQ identities were erased in schools and largely in most places they still are,” said Ken Shulman, the executive director for Lambert House in Seattle, an LGBTQ youth center addressing the physical and mental health disparities of young people in Washington. Shulman said it can be hard for young people to accept or understand communities when they are ignored in the classroom.
“It’s considered too controversial to mention to kids that Thoreau was gay, or Walt Whitman was gay,” said Shulman. “Allen Turing who invented
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