Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities

PRESS RELEASE: History UnErased's executive leadership contributed policy recommendations to revive and advance LGBTQ rights as part of a major research report published by the Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center this month.

Complete story of 'We the People' requires LGBT+ people in history lessons

The first three words of the United States Constitution — “We the People” — proclaim who is enacting the nation’s most important document. Yet as I progressed through my education, the “people” read about, the “people” who belonged in society, were lectured upon, revered, and who shaped the nation as I knew it, did not include people like me or Mr. Buttigeig, members of the LGBT+ community.

LGBTQ HISTORY UNERASED

In 1986, when Debra Fowler filled out paperwork to join the U.S. Army, she came to a question asking if she was a homosexual. She checked no. I knew it was a lie, she says, but a small lie.