lowing wrote:
I guess you can not make the distinction that rosa parks was black in public, and so was riding in the front of the bus as a black person. Your sex life, be it straight or gay, IS NOT historically significant.
If they want to talk about various forms of discrimination and what it takes to combat it and stand up to it, and WHO stood up to it, fine I don't give a shit. But as shown, the OP wants to make special footnotes that whatever Joe Blow did, he did so as a gay guy, and that is not historically relevant.
NOOOOOOO
JFK was a significant for the Civil Rights movement. AKA, that's part of the the curriculum too. Repetively you are missing the point.
THEY ARE FOCUSED ON CONTEXT. Not "who's gay".
I'll post the quote from the article YOU linked but didn't bother to read:
"California already requires public schools to teach the contributions made to society by women and by racial and ethnic groups that were historically discriminated against, such as blacks, Latinos and Native Americans.
Supporters of the latest bill said it would simply include gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals in that existing requirement, making it part of the curriculum in history and other social studies classes."
Aka, it's being taught THE SAME WAY.
And secondly, "your sex life, be it straight or gay, IS NOT historically significant"?
So gay discrimination doesn't exist?
Like when they talk about gay marriage bills, etc, or make it a political discussion point when running for president...ITS NOT HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT?