ABSTRACT
Good curriculum gives gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students the deep satisfaction of seeing something of themselves in the lessons of the school. Curriculum writers are surely tempted to present only the positive features of a minority community, assuming other information to be defamatory. The social studies—history, political science, sociology, anthropology, and psychology—are fertile ground for gay and lesbian curricula. Teaching about homosexuality is more than informing students about a particular kind of person. It can also challenge them to think about how same-gender attraction became a marker of a type of person in the first place. The subject of homosexuality, if it arises at all in schools, is most often referred to in health and HIV curricula, perhaps in some of the thirty-six states with recommended or mandatory sex education.
