LGBTQ+ HISTORY LESSON PLANS
One Institute has partnered with the UCLA History-Geography Project to host Professional Learning Symposiums and provide LGBTQ+ history lesson plans for educators at no cost. The lesson plans comply with California’s FAIR Education Act, which requires California K–12 schools to integrate fair, accurate, inclusive and respectful representations of the LGBTQ+ community and people with disabilities into their social studies and history classes.
We invite you to read and download the lesson plans featured below.
For inquiries about the LGBTQ+ Lesson Plans, please email Trevor Ladner, Education Programs Manager, at tladner@oneinstitute.org.
EXPLORE LESSON PLANS
AIDS & HIV Activism
Help students understand why and how activists responded to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
Audre Lorde
Analyze Audre Lorde’s writings to explore intersectionality, power and privilege.
Bayard Rustin
Learn about Bayard Rustin’s identity and how it shaped his beliefs and actions.
Black Cat Riots
Explore the causes of the Black Cat Riots in Los Angeles’ Silverlake neighborhood.
Daughters of Bilitis
Assess how the Daughters of Bilitis’ The Ladder magazine supported lesbians in the 1950s.
FAIR Education Act
Explore students’ rights to LGBTQ+ representation in the classroom as set forth in the FAIR Education Act.
Harvey Milk
Investigate how Harvey Milk’s leadership and the Briggs Initiative united marginalized groups.
Hollywood, 1920s–1930s
Were LGBT Americans welcome in Hollywood during the 1920s and 1930s?
LGBTQ Civil Rights
Examine how the movement for LGBTQ+ rights were part of the broader Civil Rights Movement.
LGBTQ Equality, 1950–1970
Interrogate how the LGBTQ+ movement went from assimilation to coming out from 1950–1970.
Magnus Hirschfeld
Explore how Magnus Hirschfeld advocated for LGBTQ+ people in Germany and abroad.
Urbanization & Gender
Evaluate how urbanization challenged gender role in the late nineteenth century.
Vietnam War
Explore how sexuality and social conditions impacted LGBTQ+ Americans during the Vietnam War.
World War I
Evaluate the role female impersonation played in various WWI soldier camp performances.
LGBTQ Freedom of Speech
Explore how One, Inc. v. Olesen expanded freedom of speech for the LGBTQ+ community.
American Psychiatric Association
Explore how the Biltmore Invasion lead to the de-pathologization of homosexuality.
We want to thank the following teachers for their work in creating these LGBTQ+ History Lesson Plans: Elana Goldbaum, Hala Dillsi, Sasha Guzman, Miguel Covarrubias, Eunice Ho, Chris Lewis, Emily Waldron, Marika Manos, Peta Lindsay, Oliver Treanor Miska, Aditi Doshi and Israel Calderon.