“Queering the Classroom”; The Erasure of Queer History

• In Event: Claiming Space: Neurodiversity, Queer Pedagogy, and Intersectional Justice

Abstract

In Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court sided with Obergefell, marking same-sex marriage as a fundamental right in 2015. To be given fundamental rights within the United States is to be protected by the Due Clause clause and the Equal Protections clause from the fourteenth amendment. Despite garnering what should have created equitable opportunities between the intersect of law and civilization, it instead created a mass whitewashing of what it means to be queer within society, cultivating a disconnect between queerness and race. Within higher education, the whitewashing of queer history has locked students into picking one trait of their identity that best suits the palette of the oppressor at that moment.

Author

• Vivian Bo Kyung Lee, University of Utah