Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle

Detailed, informative, and engaging, “Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle” explores the history of LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights movements in a respectful approach that is factual and autobiographical. Complex human rights issues are broached carefully, and historical and contemporary concerns are highlighted in a way that offers insight into the journey and battle for civil liberties and human rights in an easy-to-understand way. Suitable for students from Grade 6–12, the resource lends itself well as part of a unit on the discrimination of LGBTQ+ people or to inform students on the history of activism, and is appropriate to use as a whole class, in small groups, or for individual reading.