Olive Garrison has been teaching high school history in Bakersfield for the past eight years. Born and raised in the Central Valley city, Garrison has incorporated LGBTQ history into lessons, from the Lavender Scare, a moral panic in which thousands of gay workers in the 1940s and ’50s were driven out of government service jobs, to the struggles of queer Americans during the Great Depression.
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If anything I’m afraid of the way they will teach LGBTQ+ history
My fear is that it could be whitewashed history with unapologetic Western favoritism and perspective
Okay what about the times we fought back? Our historic culture? That time we rioted so hard the local prison joined in?
