PRESS RELEASE: Learn.UnErased.org digital platform is providing K-12 schools with LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum and supports both traditional and online teaching and learning.

PRESS RELEASE: History UnErased will continue into its fourth year of providing the New York City Department of Education with LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum and virtual Professional Development Institutes.

The first three words of the United States Constitution — “We the People” — proclaim who is enacting the nation’s most important document. Yet as I progressed through my education, the “people” read about, the “people” who belonged in society, were lectured upon, revered, and who shaped the nation as I knew it, did not include people like me or Mr. Buttigeig, members of the LGBT+ community.

LOWELL, Mass. (Reuters) For generations, young Americans could go all the way through high school without learning that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have long been part of their country's history. Spurred by gay rights victories at the Supreme Court and elsewhere in recent years, a Lowell, Massachusetts-based organization called History Unerased is trying to change that by training teachers to bring that knowledge to U.S. classrooms. "People who we label and understand as LGBTQ today have always existed in every nation, in every belief system, in every ethnicity," said co-founder Debra Fowler, using a version of the acronym that can mean "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning."