" In this interactive workshop, the presenters (Michals and Marine) will provide exemplars of applied learning that center on creating greater awareness of LGBTQ+ people and communities. Michals will present the class project developed (during the COVID-19 pandemic) in her US LGBTQ+ history class, a virtual LGBTQ+ history museum dedicated to highlighting queer accomplishments, and victories. Michals will explore the ways she designed the project to include students at very different levels of learning and knowledge about LGBGTQ+ people and lives and to build community and a sense of ownership and mission across this diversity. Marine will describe how students in her Gender and Education course (pre-covid) mapped their campus for trans inclusion, actively seeking areas of inclusion and exclusion, and developed remedies and a policy platform for creating change. Both projects integrated multiple strands of thought and action from various disciplines, including history, sociology, and movement studies, and both provided a platform for developing inclusive work that was also rigorous (through readings, reflection and by the very nature of pushing students beyond their previous comfort for knowledge zones). In this way, this presentation reflects Q3 of Strand One: Q1: How can scholars promote interdisciplinary education that is generous and flexible—yet rigorous—to prepare students for success in our complex world? as well as drawing on strand three, ""Strand 3: Promoting best theories and practices in interdisciplinary learning."" "