Difference between revisions of "Sue Sanders"

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==Description==
 
==Description==
  
Founder of LGBT History Month.  Activist for LGBTQ rights for over 30 years.  Co-chair of Schools Out, a group working for the equality of LGBT people in the education system, which she co-founded in 1974 as The Gay Teachers Association. Poet and short story writer and theatre director.
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Founder of LGBT History Month.  Professor Emeritus, Harvey Milk Institute.  Activist for LGBTQ rights since the late 1960s.  Co-chair of Schools Out, a group working for the equality of LGBT people in the education system, which was originally founded in 1974 as The Gay Teachers Association. Founded 'the classroom' website (2012) which has over 80 lesson plans which usualise LGBT people, history, experience across the curriculum and for all ages.  Cofounded OUTing the Past (with Dr Jeff Evans) in 2014, the biggest LGBT history festival in the UK which will be international in 2019.  Poet and short story writer and theatre director.
  
 
==Further Reading/Research==
 
==Further Reading/Research==
  
 
* http://www.schools-out.org.uk/?resources=the-story-of-schools-out-sue-sanders
 
* http://www.schools-out.org.uk/?resources=the-story-of-schools-out-sue-sanders
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* www.the-classroom.org.uk
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* www.outingthepast.org
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* http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/sue-sanders-describes-a-lifetime-of-campaigning-at-the-rsa/
 
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRU1WX9_R6s
 
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRU1WX9_R6s
  

Revision as of 00:28, 19 July 2018

Sue Sanders

Country

United Kingdom

Birth - Death

1947 -

Occupation

Activist

Description

Founder of LGBT History Month. Professor Emeritus, Harvey Milk Institute. Activist for LGBTQ rights since the late 1960s. Co-chair of Schools Out, a group working for the equality of LGBT people in the education system, which was originally founded in 1974 as The Gay Teachers Association. Founded 'the classroom' website (2012) which has over 80 lesson plans which usualise LGBT people, history, experience across the curriculum and for all ages. Cofounded OUTing the Past (with Dr Jeff Evans) in 2014, the biggest LGBT history festival in the UK which will be international in 2019. Poet and short story writer and theatre director.

Further Reading/Research


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