{"id":2070,"date":"2015-08-11T21:06:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T02:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2015-08-11T21:06:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T02:06:35","slug":"public-arts-high-school-in-san-francisco-to-begin-offering-class-in-lgbt-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2070","title":{"rendered":"Public arts high school in San Francisco to begin offering class in LGBT history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The?Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco is adding a college preparatory course about LGBT history to its curriculum. Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/nation\/2015\/08\/07\/california-high-school-creates-gay-history-class\/TUFxWmoSuNWbFgD9vIkmCP\/story.html\">The Washington Post:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The class, LGBT Studies, will look at the legalization of same-sex marriage, the US military?s ??don?t ask, don?t tell?? policy, and major gay-rights events such as the Stonewall riots in 1969 in New York.<\/p>\n<p>??This is history. This is an experience that happened,?? Schlax told the San Francisco Chronicle in an interview. ??How can we not teach history? That?s what we do.??<\/p>\n<p>The course will be coupled with a class on ethnic studies, which will explore the history of minority groups in the United States, Schlax said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Advocate noted that this may be the first class of its kind in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The?Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco is adding a college preparatory course about LGBT history to its curriculum. Via The Washington Post: The class, LGBT Studies, will look at the legalization of same-sex marriage, the US military?s ??don?t ask, don?t tell?? policy, and major gay-rights events such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[265,264,266,263],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-high-school","tag-lgbt-class","tag-lgbt-history","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}