Email Mo.phillips@sonoma.edu for the Zoom link.

For the first time, WGS Professor Don Romesburg shares research from his book-in-progress about the history of K-12 LGBTQ history education in the U.S. He reveals how this struggle began in the 1970s, had a burst of unrealized promise and frustration in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and is finally being realized in the 21st century. He will also discuss the current backlash to the progress that's been made, and the road ahead. Email mo.phillips@sonoma.edu with any questions

Presenter Bio:

Don Romesburg is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University. He is editor of the Routledge History of Queer America (2018) and was the lead scholar working to bring LGBT content into California's 2016 K-12 History-Social Science Framework and subsequent textbooks. He now trains educators on implementation. His related forthcoming book is tentatively entitled Fierce and FAIR: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Q+Public Series, Rutgers University Press). For these efforts, he is the namesake of the Committee on LGBT History’s Don Romesburg Prize for K-12 Curriculum. Dr. Romesburg is also a co-founder of the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco.