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For the past two decades, Don Romesburg has been at the forefront of LGBTQ-inclusive education. As the former chair of the women’s and gender studies department and developer of the queer studies minor at Sonoma State University, Romesburg—a historian of sexuality and gender—was instrumental in providing students with knowledge about the history and struggles of the queer and trans community and what he describes as a “safe haven” within the larger collegiate experience. Additionally, Romesburg has been a key architect of and advocate for getting age-appropriate LGBTQ+ history into K–12 curricula in California, a model that a number of states have followed and that

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