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Revision as of 13:38, 28 November 2020
The world's youth represent the opportunity for our future. As the next generation, they offer change to a more diverse, tolerant and peaceful world. The education system is an important component to shaping our youth and presenting the values that they will adopt throughout their life. It is relevant, then, that there are LGBTQ leaders within the education system at this level who actively participate in the education process of our youth.
This was not lost on the earliest societies in history. The Greeks, for example, accepted this tenet of inter-generational knowledge and skills transfer. LGBTQ individuals such as Aristotle, Plato and Socrates placed great emphasis on their schooling efforts and methods of teaching. Our indigenous communities in settled countries also placed great value in the transfer of knowledge from generation to generation as a means of impacting human activity.
Brazil
Canada
Finland
Greece
Great Britain
- Robert Baden-Powell
- Barbara Baier
- Elly Barnes
- Rikki Beadle-Blair
- Shaun Dellenty
- Nia Griffith
- John Yates Harold
- Natacha Kennedy
- Andrew Moffat
- Sirina-Monique]
- Mitch Price
- AJ Selfridge
- Matthew Sephton
- Christian Webb
- William Wragg
India
Italy
Japan
Puerto Rico
Sweden
United States
- Eric Anderson
- Daniel Dromm
- Sean Elias
- T'ai freedom ford
- Jackie Goldberg
- Christine Hallquist
- Bahiyyah Maroon
- Anayvette Martinez
- Margaret McIntosh
- Bao Nguyen
- Oli Rodriguez
- Hudson Taylor
- Virginia Uribe
- Lawrence Webb
- Randi Weingarten
- Rodney Wilson
See Also
- LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education
- Academics Specializing in the History of the LGBTQ Community
- LGBTQ Librarians and Archivists
- Queer Theorists
- Transgender Academics
- LGBTQ Academics in Sexuality Studies