Morning Shift host Tony Sarabia discussed the focus and value of the pending legislation with Baim Theresa Volpe, a Windy City Times reporter and a former editor for Pearson Education, a textbook publisher and Victor Salvo, founder and director of The Legacy Project, the organization responsible for the “rainbow pylons” in Boystown that are dedicated to famous LGBTQ people.īelow are highlights from the conversation.
“So there are a whole lot of reasons to have this happen in Illinois.” “There’s so much bullying in schools, there are escalating suicide attempts among the younger population,” said Tracy Baim, publisher of the of the Windy City Times. Bruce Rauner, would make Illinois the second state after California to require LGBTQ-inclusive history textbooks. Senate Bill 3249 recently passed out of committee and, if approved by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. To stay up to date on the stories that matter.Ī potentially historic bill is winding its way through the Illinois Statehouse that would require school textbooks to include “a study of the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the history of this country and this state.” WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.