Since I teach language arts, I can use almost any book to teach to those standards, however. Like in all states, I am required to provide instruction based on state-approved standards. Unfortunately, I don’t live in one of the handful of states that have mandated that LGBTQ+ topics be part of school curriculum. As a teacher, how do you incorporate LGBTQ themes into your classroom? Now I hope to see more nonfiction books about LGBTQ+ history being published for kids. I hoped that families would read the book together, that children would be able to check the book out of their class, school, and public libraries, that teachers would use the book in class, and more. (There were one or two about Harvey, however.) Random House was excited to take on the project and decided it would be released in time for the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Pride Flag. At that time, no other picture book had been published about the Pride Flag. My first hope was that I could find a publisher interested in taking a risk on a book like this-a picture book for young readers. What were your hopes for the way this story would be shared? Were you envisioning that it would be read at home with families or in classrooms? I had the first draft written before the sun came up. I decided then and there to write that story. At that moment, I realized that while most of my students had probably seen a Pride Flag, none knew what it represented, who inspired it, or who designed it. and dusk settled in, the White House suddenly was washed in the colors of the Rainbow Flag. Then, as cameras rolled in Washington, D.C. I sat at home watching the news coverage, awestruck by the events of the day. The SCOTUS marriage equality decision had been announced earlier that day. I remember the exact moment the inspiration struck. With most of my books, I’m hard pressed to remember when the inspiration hit, but with PRIDE: THE STORY OF HARVEY MILK AND THE RAINBOW FLAG my experience was totally different. What made you choose to tell the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag?
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