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Re: LGBT In Textbooks - June 22nd 2012, 07:56 PM

A teacher in a movie I once saw said "If you're not in the history book you don't exist." And I think there's some truth to that. Many people that have influenced history were queer, but their achievements are often erased. Same goes for members of other minority groups that have made an impact. It's ridiculous. Until schools wise up and start placing greater emphasis on the history of people other than heterosexual white men, we'll have to carry it on ourselves. f we don't seek to learn about history outside of the standard history books, then it's like these people never existed at all.