New LGBTQ History Program Coming to Kindergarten Classrooms This Fall

Along with being taught the alphabet and how to use glue sticks, starting this fall, some six-year-old students will also be taught the history of LGBTQ people. The new program, called History Unerased (HUE), includes “age appropriate” material for grades K-12. Second to fifth graders will be shown short animated videos about people such as gay author Warren Blumenfeld. Children in grades six to eight will be taught about a supposed crossdresser, Sara Rosetta Wakeman, a woman who dressed as a man in order to defend the nation’s capital during the Civil War. High schoolers are offered a variety of