What is it about?
I look look at how trade books intended for middle and high school students represent or characterize LGBTQ people, themes, and topics.
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Why is it important?
This is important for lots of reasons. Trade books have always been popular with English, language arts, and reading teachers, but new education initiatives make them likely resources in social studies, history, civics, and current events now, too. Trade books are at times inaccurate and misrepresentative, especially history-based trade books. LGBTQ issues are common in court cases, state legislation, Supreme Court decisions, and social media.
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LGBTQ rights are human rights. LGBTQ issues should matter for all citizens. It is important for teachers - and parents - to know what is included, excluded, and minimized in the trade books that kids and teens read.
John Bickford
Eastern Illinois University
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This page is a summary of: The representations of LGBTQ themes and individuals in non-fiction young adult literature, Social Studies Research and Practice, September 2017, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ssrp-05-2017-0021.
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