Joe & Rya TAKE FIVE: Watertown LGBTQ School Board Scandal

About this episode

Joe and Rya discuss the Watertown Wisconsin school board's decision to ban a musical piece related to LGBTQ history and the implications of this action.

Students rehearsed Omar Thomas's "A Mother of a Revolution" for months. Then their school board banned it. Joe and Rya unpack the Watertown Wisconsin controversy that's now national news and ask the real question underneath it: can honoring LGBTQ history be considered indoctrination when the music has no words? Send us Fan Mail Support the show

People in this episode

Hosts: Joe, Rya

Topics covered

• LGBTQ history
• school board controversy
• music censorship
• education
• society

Keywords

• LGBTQ
• school board
• controversy
• music
• education
• censorship

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: A Mother of a Revolution

Places: Watertown, Wisconsin

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