California may be slow getting gay history in textbooks | news10.net

California may be slow getting gay history in textbooks | news10.net

California may be slow getting gay history in textbooks

7:23 PM, Jul 15, 2011 | comments

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Karen Massie

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SACRAMENTO, CA - California's new gay history requirement goes into effect in January, but state money woes may slow down printing updated school textbooks.

"History should be honest," Gov. Jerry Brown said as he signed the controversial law on Thursday.

The law states public school social studies lessons should include the contributions of lesbian, gay,