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LGBTQIA+ RESOURCES
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Curated by Dr. Carolina Castro. Founder of Pegasus Teacher Academy
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Feel free to add more resources you find in your exploration journey here, but please do not change the ones put by others.
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CLASSROOM
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LESSON PLANSWEBSITELesson Plans to Create Gender Expansive Classrooms and Support Transgender and Non-Binary Studentshttps://welcomingschools.org/resources/lesson-plans-gender-identity-transgender-non-binary
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LESSON PLANSDOCUMENTINCLUSIVE CLASSROOMS LESSON PLANShttps://welcomingschools.org/resources/lesson-plans-lgbtq-inclusive
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LESSON PLANSDOCUMENTDefining LGBTQ+ Words for Elementary School Studentshttps://welcomingschools.org/resources/definitions-lgbtq-elementary-school
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LESSON PLANSWEBSITELesson Plans to Create Gender Expansive Classrooms and Support Transgender and Non-Binary Studentshttps://welcomingschools.org/resources/lesson-plans-gender-identity-transgender-non-binary
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LESSON PLANSDOCUMENTIdentity Flower Lesson Planhttps://www.glsen.org/activity/identity-lesson-grades-3-5
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SUGGESTIONSWEBSITE10 Tips for Building a More LGBTQ-Inclusive Classroomhttps://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-10-tips-for-building-a-more-lgbtq-inclusive-classroom/2019/10
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CURRICULUMDOCUMENTSIMPLE WAYS TO INCORPORATE LGBTQ AND
GENDER INCLUSIVE MATERIAL ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
https://hrc-prod-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/welcoming-schools/documents/WS_Simple_Ways_to_Include_LGBTQ_Material.pdf?mtime=20200713132045&focal=none
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TIPS FOR INCLUSIVITYBLOG10 Tips for Building a More LGBTQ-Inclusive Classroomhttps://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-10-tips-for-building-a-more-lgbtq-inclusive-classroom/2019/10
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POLICIESDOCUMENTChecklist for Preventing Bias-Based Bullyinghttps://hrc-prod-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/welcoming-schools/documents/WS-Checklist-for-Preventing-Bias-Based-Bullying.pdf
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POLICIESDOCUMENTSecondary LGBTQ+ and Gender Inclusive Schools Checklisthttps://hrc-prod-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/welcoming-schools/documents/WS-Secondary-LGBTQ-and-Gender-Inclusive-Schools-Checklist.pdf
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STUDENT CLUBVIDEOStudents find community in Gay Straight Alliance clubhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU1eANnj5qA&ab_channel=PBSNewsHourStudentReportingLabs
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TRIANING RESOURCEDOCUMENTSfoundational curriculum is recommended for all groups to introduce them to core concepts of marginalized genders and sexualitieshttps://thesafezoneproject.com/curriculum/
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TRAINING ACTIVITIESWEBSITETHE SAFE ZONE PROJECThttps://thesafezoneproject.com/resources/
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TRAINING ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCESWEBSITEGLSEN: GLSEN Chapters create LGBTQ-inclusive schools. Community-led chapters offer teacher trainings, student support, community outreach, and more.https://www.glsen.org/
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WEBSITEQUEER COMICS DATABASEA good place to find comics by representation and age.http://queercomicsdatabase.com/
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Gay boys and other LGBT+SHORT FILMIn a Heartbeat - Animated Short FilmCute love story of 2 boys, one of them is very shy and struggles with his gay identity.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2REkk9SCRn0&ab_channel=InaHeartbeatAnimatedShortFilm
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LGBT and Gender rolesANIMATED SERIESShe-Ra And The Princesses Of PowerA show where the main characters are LGBT+ and the secondary characters are too mainly. In this universe being LGBT+ is just the new normal. It showcases values of friendship, the healing power of acceptance and dealing with challenging negative emotions.https://www.npr.org/2020/05/15/854610573/in-she-ra-and-the-princesses-of-power-true-strength-is-in-being-yourself#:~:text=She%2DRa%20and%20the%20Princesses%20of%20Power%20is%20far%20from,growing%20up%2C%22%20Tobia%20says.
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LGBT and Gender rolesANIMATED SERIESThe Owl HouseThis show has a bisexual main character and when she falls in love with a girl, it is just protrayed as normal. Secondary characters are fantastic, as they build an alternative and diverse family of pariahs in an alternative magic universe. Disney shut it down becaus eit became "too gay". It is in Disney +https://www.them.us/story/the-owl-house-season-3-lgbtq-representation-disney
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Transgender and Gender rolesANIMATED SERIESDead End: Paranormal ParkBarney Guttman, voiced by Zach Barack, is the main protagonist of the series. He is a gay transgender teen boy who finds a new job as a security guard of Phoenix Parks. Barney has family problems. His grandmother doesn’t accept the fact that he is trans.NETFLIX
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LGBT and Gender rolesTV SHOWHeartstopperVery sweet and cute series of comics and also TV show on the identity search of 2 teenage boys who fall in love, one gay and the other bisexual. One of the main characters has a group of LGBT+ friends who show the need of community and friendship.NETFLIX
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GAY BOYSMOVIELove, SimonSimon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates: he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.NETFLIX
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GAY BOYSTV SHOWLove, VictorLove, Victor is an American teen comedy drama streaming television series created by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, inspired by and set in the same world as the 2018 film Love, Simon. Disney +
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TWO SPIRITSHORT MOVIEThe Roof (2023)Written by W.A.W. Parker, who identifies as Two-Spirit and is of Northern Cheyenne descent, The Roof contains a genuinely profound moment of understanding for both protagonists.Disney +
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TRANSGENDER GIRLMINI SERIESFirst Day (2020)The series is written and directed by Julie Kalceff and stars Evie Macdonald as twelve year old transgender girl Hannah Bradford, as she adjusts to high school at the start of a new year. She must navigate the social and personal issues of her early teenage years, while also dealing with the pressures of her gender identity, which is largely private at the beginning of the series. Overriding themes include the focus on identity and belonging, and the exploration of transgender rights. ABC Me (Australia)
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LGBTQIA+TV SHOWSense 8One of the best representations of LGBTQIA+ diversity, including a happy couple of a trans woman and a cis woman. The background message is all about tolerance in the world. The Sensates are a cluster of eight people who share a birth date of August 8 (the eighth month), and members of a more highly evolved species known as Homo sensorium. They share a psychic and empathetic connection with each other and appear in each other’s lives when their particular skills are needed.Netflix
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Transgender peopleTV SHOWPoseCompelling and positive representation of transgender people, especially transwomen. Pose (stylized as POSE) is an American drama television series about New York City's ballroom culture, an LGBTQ subculture in the African-American and Latino communities, throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Featured characters are dancers and models, who compete for trophies and recognition in this underground culture and who support one another in a network of chosen families known as Houses.Netflix
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Lesbians and transgender peopleTV SHOW‘The L Word’: Generation Q’Follows the lives of lesbian women in Los Angeles, with some transgender characters. It is sexy and fun.
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Transgender peopleDocumentaryDisclosureDISCLOSURE is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Leading trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, Mj Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton, and Chaz Bono, share their reactions and resistance to some of Hollywood’s most beloved moments. Grappling with films like A Florida Enchantment (1914), Dog Day Afternoon, The Crying Game, and Boys Don’t Cry, and with shows like The Jeffersons, The L-Word, and Pose, they trace a history that is at once dehumanizing, yet also evolving, complex, and sometimes humorous.Netflix
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IDENTITYIllustrated BookJulián Is a MermaidA lovely celebration of the courage to tell the world who you are comes in Julián Is a Mermaid (public library) by Jessica Love — a sweet story of loving acceptance and the jubilant inner transformation that takes place when one is welcomed to be and to dream beyond society's narrow templates of being and dreaming.https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/06/07/julian-is-a-mermaid-jessica-love/#:~:text=A%20lovely%20celebration%20of%20the,templates%20of%20being%20and%20dreaming.
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LESBIAN AND GENDER ROLESCOMICPRINCESS PRINCESS EVER AFTER (2016)
Creators: K. O'Neill
Extremely funny and goofy, as well as challenging gender roles and a teenage romantic relationship between to girls.http://queercomicsdatabase.com/series/princess-princess-ever-after/
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LESBIAN AND GENDER ROLESCOMICTHE TEA DRAGON SOCIETY (2016) Creators: K. O'NeillA charming all-ages book that follows the story of Greta, a blacksmith apprentice, and the people she meets as she becomes entwined in the enchanting world of tea dragons. After discovering a lost tea dragon in the marketplace, Greta learns about the dying art form of tea dragon care-taking from the kind tea shop owners, Hesekiel and Erik. As she befriends them and their shy ward, Minette, Greta sees how the craft enriches their lives—and eventually her own.http://queercomicsdatabase.com/series/the-tea-dragon-society/
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LESBIAN COMICSNAPDRAGON, Novel by Kat Leyh
Snap’s town had a witch.

At least, that’s how the rumor goes. But in reality, Jacks is just a crocks-wearing, internet-savvy old lady who sells roadkill skeletons online—after doing a little ritual to put their spirits to rest. It’s creepy, sure, but Snap thinks it’s kind of cool, too.
http://queercomicsdatabase.com/series/snapdragon/
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GENDER ROLES AND LGBTCOMICTHE WITCH BOY (2017)
Creators: Molly Knox Ostertag
Although Aster is not trans in the text, the book is a powerful trans allegory, with shapeshifting and witchery as stand-ins for male or female gender either assigned at birth or felt. Ostertag has described the book as being more broadly about “the feeling of being young and queer, of knowing certain things about yourself and having other things be mysteries” (Rogues Portal).http://queercomicsdatabase.com/series/the-witch-boy/
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LESBIAN AND TRANSGENDERCOMICLumberjanes (2014)At Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady Types, things are not what they seem. Three-eyed foxes. Secret caves. Anagrams.

Luckily, Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are five rad, butt-kicking best pals determined to have an awesome summer together…and they’re not gonna let a magical quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way! One of the five main girls is transgender and two others are in a relationship. Issue #16 introduces a non-binary character named Barney who joins the Lumberjanes and becomes a series regular. Barney uses they/them pronouns.
http://queercomicsdatabase.com/series/lumberjanes/#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20five%20main,Barney%20uses%20they%2Fthem%20pronouns.
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LGBT+ and Gender rolesCOMICFINE: A COMIC ABOUT GENDER (2022)“Woven around the interviews is Ewing’s own account of coming out as nonbinary, ending with their wedding and how this project was instrumental to discovering how to be comfortable in their own skin. While Ewing’s interviews all took place in the Midwest, interviewees originally hailed from across the country and include teens and seniors, white people and people of color, cisgender and transgender folks, straight people and LGBTQ+ people. … Recommended for everyone who cares about better understanding the complicated, varied, gorgeous mess that is gender.” (Source: Booklist, February 2022, #1)http://queercomicsdatabase.com/series/fine-a-comic-about-gender/
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LGBT+ and Gender rolesCOMICHeartstopper (2019)Very sweet and cute series of comics and also TV show on the identity search of 2 teenage boys who fall in love, one gay and the other bisexual. One of the main characters has a group of LGBT+ friends who show the need of community and friendship.https://collider.com/ways-heartstopper-dismantled-queer-representation-stereotypes/
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LGBT+ and Gender rolesCOMICBE GAY, DO COMICS (2020)Be Gay, Do Comics is filled with dozens of comics about LGBTQIA experiences, ranging from personal stories to queer history to cutting satire about pronoun panic and brands desperate to co-opt pride.

Brimming with resilience, inspiration, and humor, an incredible lineup of top indie cartoonists takes you from the American Revolution through Stonewall to today’s fights for equality and representation.
http://queercomicsdatabase.com/series/be-gay-do-comics/
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LGBT+ and Gender rolesCOMICBEYOND: THE QUEER SCI-FI & FANTASY COMIC ANTHOLOGY (2015)Swashbuckling space pirates, legendary dragon slayers, death-defying astronauts, and monster queen royalty. All this (and more!) in BEYOND, the queer sci-fi and fantasy comic anthology. Featuring 18 stories by 26 incredible contributors, the BEYOND ANTHOLOGY celebrates unquestionably queer characters hailing from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality, front and centre as the heroes of their own stories; exploring the galaxy, mixing magic, having renegade adventures and saving the day!http://queercomicsdatabase.com/series/beyond-the-queer-sci-fi-fantasy-comic-anthology/
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LGBT+ and Gender rolesCOMICQUEER AS ALL GET OUT: 10 PEOPLE WHO’VE INSPIRED ME (2021)Take a walk with one queer artist from Texas and explore the lives of ten LGBTQ+ people from history.

What does it take to live your truth? And how do we each navigate the struggle for personal acceptance within a society that is so often intolerant? In this galvanizing story of resilience, Shelby Criswell takes us by the hand and leads us through the lived experiences of ten inspiring people. Each an example of how to find your way as your own authentic self. Featuring illustrated biographies of Mary Jones, We’wha, Magnus Hirschfeld, Dr. Pauli Murray, Wilmer “Little Ax” Broadnax, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Carlette Brown, Nancy Cárdenas, Ifti Nasim, and Simon Nkoli.
http://queercomicsdatabase.com/series/queer-as-all-get-out-10-people-whove-inspired-me/
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SEL ResourcesResource websiteCASELhttps://casel.org/
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SEL BasicsVideoRedes 157: El aprendizaje social y emocional, las habilidades para la vida - educación emocionalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Hg6NxqB3g&ab_channel=Atr%C3%A9veteasaber
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SEL BasicsVideo¿QUÉ ES LA EDUCACIÓN EMOCIONAL? POR RAFAEL BISQUERRAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZPFndN7ijE&ab_channel=EducaSwitch
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SEL examplesVideoEDUCACIÓN EMOCIONAL en la ESCUELA - Programa para alumnos de INFANTIL y PRIMARIAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mNP1NrjQEQ&ab_channel=cerebrity
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Student identitiesBlogSection 2: Exploring Identity and Getting to Know Each Otherhttps://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/activities-first-days-school
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Sense of belongingDocumentShifting the Current School Climate: Sense OF Belonginghttps://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/northwest/pdf/social-emotional-learning.pdf
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Community circleDocumentCommunity circle protocolhttps://schoolguide.casel.org/resource/community-building-circles/
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SEL activitiesDocumentSEL 3 Signature Practiceshttps://casel.org/casel_sel-3-signature-practices-playbook-v3/
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