LibGuides: Gender & LGBTQ Resources: Curriculum

GLSEN LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum
Incorporate LGBT history, themes and people into your curriculum! Ensure that your LGBT students see themselves reflected in your lessons. Create opportunities for all of your students to gain a more complex and authentic understanding of the world around them. Encourage respectful behavior, critical thinking and social justice.
Safe Zone Project
The Safe Zone Project is a free online resource for powerful, effective, LGBTQ awareness and ally training workshops. Our foundational curriculum is recommended for all groups to introduce them to core concepts of marginalized genders and sexualities
Teaching Tolerance: LGBT Lessons
These robust, ready-to-use classroom lessons offer breadth and depth, spanning essential social justice topics and reinforcing critical social emotional learning skills. Search LGBT for lessons.

Lessons and Projects

Moonlight Educator Toolking - TFA LGBTQ Community Initiative
All young people deserve the love and support required to feel safe and supported as they learn and develop--making sense of who they are and the world around them. Unfortunately too many young people find themselves engaged in the tough task of coming of age without the support of caring and concerned adults. Barry Jenkins’ groundbreaking film Moonlight, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play “In Moonlight, Black Boys Look Blue,” presents rich opportunities to talk about and foster safer and braver classrooms, particularly for Black LGBTQ students.
LGBTQ History Timeline Lesson
In this lesson, students learn about important leaders and events throughout LGBTQ American history. They hear stories about Francis Bacon, a noted gay man who coined the term “masculine love”(1623), brilliant trans women of color, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, who led the revolution at Stonewall (1969), and when Audre Lorde, a critically acclaimed novelist, poet, and fierce civil rights activist is named as the state poet of New York (1991).
Unheard Voices: Stories and Lessons for Grades 6-12
GLSEN, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and StoryCorps have collaborated to create Unheard Voices, an oral history and curriculum project helping educators integrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history, people and issues into their instructional programs.
Hosting Your Own African American Education Teach-In to Support African American LGBTQ Youth:
A toolkit for individuals and communities to accelerate African American Educational Excellence and otherwise respond to urgent needs of African American LGBTQ students. Created by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African
Americans