Last week at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference, human rights and labor justice activist Dolores Huerta provided the opening keynote address to the thunderous applause of thousands of LGBT activists and allies from all over the nation. It was Dolores Huerta who coined the term, Si Se Puede! (Yes, it can be done!). These words rang especially relevant to my colleagues and I from NSRC who were there at the conference to reinforce national dialogue and new committed action connecting lifelong sexuality education with LGBT activism.

It has often seemed like a major oversight to me that sexuality education is not more central to the LGBT movement’s mission of achieving equality. It is true that the movement has an enormous array of issues to tackle—from racial and economic injustice to employment, housing, marriage and relationship/family discrimination to hate crime to religious oppression to HIV to racism, sexism and religio-phobia within the movement itself and the list seemingly never ends. But here’s the thing….at the end of the day, when all is said and done, LGBT people...