LGBTQ Pride Month
This month recognizes the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally.
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Description and History
is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan - the tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally.
Professional Learning Resources
This AASL guide supports school librarians in addressing challenges related to censorship and patron privacy issues, particularly with LGBTQ+ materials. It uses the AASL Standards to help users explore LGBTQ+ materials and needs in their own communities.
AASL Standards Framework Applied to LGBTQ+ Materials
Use this framework application to navigate more quickly to relevant resources, inspiration, statistics, and activities based on your specific questions and needs.
This webinar unpacks the Defending Intellectual Freedom guide. Presenters share Ideas for using the guide as a school or district-wide professional development and how a similar framework could be used to address other key issues for school librarians.
In this Knowledge Quest blog post, Rachel Altobelli shares how used the resource guide as the basis for professional development for her district’s back-to-school in-service for librarians.
This webinar focuses on the importance of inclusion for all students and provided examples of what inclusion looks like in both school libraries and the classroom. Common implicit biases when evaluating LGBTQIA+ literature is also discussed.
In this conversation, panelists share their expertise and provide attendees with best practices and practical strategies to advocate for and support LGBTQ+ content and programming during Pride Month and beyond.
HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is a comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program and provides LGBTQ+ and gender inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklists and resources specifically designed for educators.
The slides from 2023 LibLearnX provides legal knowledge supporting affirming practices and strengthening advocacy, skills to create a supportive LGBTQIA+ culture in and beyond your library, and the terminology that creates safety and a sense of belonging.
Open To All: Serving the LGBTQIA+ Community in Your Library
This toolkit from the 91´«Ã½ Rainbow Round Table is designed to help library staff better understand gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, asexual, aromantic, and other queer (LGBTQIA+) library users and how to best serve their needs.
This article examines school librarians’ perspectives on collecting LGBT materials. It addresses the questions: What are their reasons collecting LGBT resources? What roles can school librarians play to counter bullying of LGBT students? and more.
The Equal Access Act mandates that federally-funded public secondary schools to provide equal access to extracurricular student clubs.
GSAs are student-run organizations that unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities. The national association works with local partners to develop new curriculum, programs, an
This page from the ACLU shares details on the many federal court cases in which schools have unsuccessfully tried to block or limit GSAs.
Title IX states: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
Learner Engagement Resources
This in depth list of resources from the Library of Congress includes research guides, arts and sciences collections, civil rights and government papers and collections, and literature and poetry collections.
Book Lists
The Rainbow Book List is created by the 91´«Ã½ Rainbow Round Table and it presents an annual bibliography of quality books with significant and authentic LGBQTIA+ content, which are recommended for people from birth through eighteen years of age.
Stonewall Book Awards
The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by 91´«Ã½â€™s Rainbow Round Table (formerly the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table).
This book finder from the Anti-Defamation League provides age level recommended books on LGBTQ+ People & Heterosexism.
