Play It Again, Judy
http://www.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticle/174805/2/2008
"Although I've only been teaching gay and lesbian studies for eight
years, my involvement in writing about it (and participating in it)
stretch back almost four decades. I have learned innumerable things
during that time—and engaging with younger queer people has changed my
mind about a number of issues. One of the most important changes has
come from my realization that teaching "history" is a lot harder than
teaching about social issues. Students have no trouble comprehending
and grappling with complicated legal issues and political theory. They
have no problem figuring out a causal historical timeline, but they
often have no real sense of what this recent history felt like, or the
extraordinarily high level of emotional content that fueled it or the
emotions that emerged from it.
