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LGBT History Introduction to LGBT History Packet This packet is not all-inclusive of the wide array of people and events making up the rich LGBT histories in the geographies we cover, nor does it address LGBT world history beyond the United States, Germany and the early cultures that influenced what later became Germany. Here, we provide basic information about the following:
In whatever teaching opportunities you find to use this packet, we hope it will assist you in making LGBT history more visible. In so doing we believe that one outcome will be for all students’ understanding of history to be enriched. We are also confident that another outcome will be for sexual minority students and children of same-sex parents to gain historical perspectives on discrimination they may experience, diminishing any sense of invisibility they have so that they may thrive more academically. On behalf of the staff and board of Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools, thank you to the volunteers who used their expertise to help the staff create this history packet:
We also thank the Public Broadcasting System and Eliza Byard, acting executive director of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, for the use of the U.S. LGBT history timeline developed by Eliza Byard and to which GSAFE staff made additions. Finally, thank you for your interest in LGBT history and dedicated work as school professionals and as students of history.
Cindy Crane Brian Juchems Tim Michael Note about the period of Nazi Persecutions and the Holocaust: The word “Holocaust” is used to refer to the murder of Jews for whom the Nazis planned a systematic genocide in Europe (the word genocide itself developed after the Holocaust). “The Nazis frequently used euphemistic language to disguise the true nature of their crimes. They used the term “Final Solution” to refer to their plan to annihilate the Jewish people.” (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Website). Sybil Milton, who was a leading scholar of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and a senior historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum until her death in 2000, maintained that Roma (formerly known as gypsies) were part of the Holocaust. Including Roma in the Holocaust is widely accepted today though still controversial in some circles. Other groups not included in what the Nazis called the “Final Solution” in their systemic plan to rid all of Europe of Jews and Roma, but who were placed in prisons and concentration camps and murdered by Nazi soldiers are referred to as “persecuted.” Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools Introduction to History Packet
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