ABSTRACT Despite many historiographical challenges, in this article I briefly examine two significant school leaders from over a century ago whose lives may seem recognizable to contemporary LGBTQ+ educators in that they both stepped outside traditional gender and sexuality boundaries for their time. They are Ella Flagg Young and George Howland, both of whom served as school superintendent in Chicago. This fast-growing city, much like others of the Progressive Era, opened new social opportunities as well as offered a modestly safe place to navigate shifting gender and sexuality norms. And though these two individuals were greatly admired for their exceptional gifts as educators and leaders, they each represented a demographic in school work that was aggressively marginalized only a few years after their deaths. In the end, their stories tell us much about two remarkable educators. As important, their experiences as recognizably LGBTQ+ educators offer hints of deeper, longer-term efforts by school officials to drive their potential successors away.

中文翻译：

---

在进步时代在芝加哥学校寻找我们的 LGBTQ+ 前辈

摘要 尽管存在许多史学上的挑战，但在本文中，我简要考察了一个多世纪前的两位重要学校领导者，他们的生活似乎对当代 LGBTQ+ 教育者来说是可识别的，因为他们都超越了当时的传统性别和性界限。他们是 Ella Flagg Young 和 George Howland，两人都曾在芝加哥担任学校负责人。这座快速发展的城市，就像进步时代的其他城市一样，开辟了新的社会机会，并提供了一个适度安全的地方来驾驭不断变化的性别和性规范。尽管这两个人因其作为教育家和领导者的非凡天赋而备受钦佩，但他们每个人都代表了学校工作中的一个人群，在他们去世后仅几年就被积极地边缘化。到底，他们的故事告诉我们很多关于两位杰出教育家的故事。同样重要的是，他们作为公认的 LGBTQ+ 教育者的经历暗示了学校官员为驱赶他们潜在的继任者所做的更深入、更长期的努力。