How to Talk to Kids about Pride Month

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How to Talk to Kids about Pride Month

How schools teach sexuality has changed a lot since I was a kid; today, More Than Sex-Ed helps schools make sure that when students learn about bodies, about puberty, about healthy relationships, about love—we make sure that those lessons include and respect everybody. How cities celebrate pride has changed; how people understand what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer has changed. But let’s be clear, that’s not because being LGBTQ is a new thing: gay and trans people have existed for as long as humans have existed.

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Black Lives Matter. Here’s What We’re Doing to Make our Classes and our Organization Actively Antiracist

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Black Lives Matter. Here’s What We’re Doing to Make our Classes and our Organization Actively Antiracist

Wow. What times we are living in. Our hearts are with you, whatever you are grieving or fearing; whatever you are celebrating, if not the way you had hoped. We’re wishing you all a happy pride month; rest assured it doesn’t take a big glittery rainbow parade for us to be proud of all our beautiful LGBTQ siblings and all of their courage, resilience, and joy. We are especially proud of all those activists and organizers centering the movement for Black lives in this year’s pride celebrations: none of us are free until all of us are free.

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