CA Legislator Wants Sexual Orientation in Textbooks...

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Former Sitcom Star Turns Gay Activist
California Legislator Wants Sexual Orientation in Textbooks

By JESSE McKINLEY, The New York Times


APCalifornia state Sen. Sheila Kuehl said there was nothing but white men depicted in her school textbooks as a child.

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 13 — Sheila Kuehl has done a few things that someday may merit mention in the history books: more than a decade in the California Legislature, a public crusade against domestic violence and a stint as the tenacious busybody Zelda on the classic sitcom "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis."

But if such immortality were to happen, Ms. Kuehl says, she would want one fact listed with the rest of her accomplishments: she is gay.

So this year, Ms. Kuehl, a state senator representing western Los Angeles, introduced a bill to assure that lesbians and gay men get what she feels is their due in California textbooks. The bill, which passed the Senate on Thursday and is now headed to the Assembly, would forbid the teaching of any material that "reflects adversely on persons due to sexual orientation," and add the "age appropriate study of the role and contributions of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender."

For Ms. Kuehl, 65, the bill seems to have as much to do with school security as it does with the A B C's.


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[brook]

1. She's also

the driving force behind getting single payer, affordable healthcare for all Californians.
She's a great example of what you'd wish your Representative to be.

[bliss_eternal]

2. I did not know this--

thank you for sharing this! :hi: She does sound like a great rep. I hope she is successful with both of her projects, I'll support her efforts any way that I can.

[brook]

4. Glad I could share...

"a good thing". The healthcare bill is SB840. More info Here

:hi: to you, too.

[Kerrytravelers]

3. As a teacher I say...

... can't happen soon enough!