| LGBT Rights-- A Human Perspective |
Good ideas, resources and some activities that can be done in the classroom |
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Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center
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"To achieve respect and equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people..."
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Gay Lesbian Straight Educators Network
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"Creating safe schools for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people."
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Guide to Preventing Discrimination
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"A Guide to Effective Statewide Laws/Policies: Preventing Discrimination
Against LGBT Students in K-12 Schools"
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National Youth Advocacy Coalition
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"Improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth"
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| "Two Spirit People: American Indian Lesbian Women and Gay Men" |
International Foundation for Gender Education Describes this Book |
| Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at the City University of New York |
Search for: "Native American," "American Indian," "Youth" and "AIDS" |
| "Native American Societies" in "People with a History" |
Discusses documented accounts of the past lives of LGBT & Two-Spirit persons |
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Online discussion |
For Two Spirit and LGBT Native Americans |
| National Coalition to Support Sexuality Education (NCSSE) |
Links to all participating professional organizations |
| GoQueer.com |
Search for Many Native American Resources |
| HealthyPlace.com |
"A Native American Perspective on the Theory of Gender Continuum" |
| Religious Movements Website of University of Viriginia Library |
Comprehensive web-base & print resources about Native American Spirituality |
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LGBT Yahoo Club |
Yahoo club for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Two-Spirit Native Americans |
| Androphile Gay History Project |
Summary of Two Spirit traditions within Native American experience |
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Overview of Two Spirit Traditions Among Native North Americans |
By Timothy J. Leary, Director of Intergrated Arts Studies in Creativity |
| Review of the film "Honored by the Moon" |
A film about gay and lesbian Native Americans |
| Homepage of Will Roscoe |
cultural historian and leading scholar of Two Spirit practices among Native Americans |
| "How to Become a Berdache" |
Course presentation at the Phenomenology Center |
| "Changing Ones" |
Book Review by religious authority Randy Corner |
| "The Berdache of Early American Conquest" |
Historical exposition of sexual diversity among tribes during the colonial era |
| "Berdache Origin Myth" |
By Richard L. Dieterle, with references and links |
| "The Berdache" |
A drama/comedy in one act by Cheryl Ann Costa |
| The Uses and Abuses of the Two Spirit tradition in Mass Industrialized Culture |
Discussion by Patricia Nell Warren, a "metis" novelist and critic |
| "Alternative Family Magazine" |
A national bimonthly magazine for LGBT parents and their children |
| Statement by the American Psychiatric Association |
Opposes so-called reparative or conversion therapies for individuals with other than exclusively heterosexual sexual orientation identities |
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Annotated Bibliography for People of Color |
Transexuality and transgenderism with references to Native Americans |
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Painting by Robert Lentz of We' Wha |
Brief explanation of the historical role of Two Spirit persons among Native peoples |
| The "Two Spirit E-mail List" |
For LGBT American Indians to share information, ideas, network and just "chat" with one another |
| American Indian Culture and Research Journal |
"--and we are still here" From Berdache to Two-Spirit People is an exposition by Wesley Thomas |
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Annotated Multicultural Bibliography |
Variant Sexuality with Section 8 concerning Native Americans |
| ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools |
Search Engine, enter: "Native American" & "Health" |
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Diverse Identities Bibliography by Charles T. Hill |
Topics include: Native American, Youth, Sexual Orientation, Health, Stigma, etc |
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Two Spirit People: American Indian Lesbian Women and Gay Men |
The first-ever look at social science research into the lives of American Indian lesbians and gay men |
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Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture |
the award-winning historical and anthropological study of how and why Native Americans have respected, and in many tribal nations, venerated homosexuals and transgenders |
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Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America |
More than 150 tribes across America have members who engage in some form of gender identification beyond "male" and "female" |
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Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology |
A compilation of essays, stories, poems, and biographical accounts of persons living as a LGBT Native American |
