I’m thrilled to return to the University of Chicago on Wednesday, April 1, for the Gala Opening of Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles: A History of LGBTQ Life at the University of Chicago, curated by Lauren Stokes, and based on the oral history project I coordinated from 2011-2014. If you’re in Chicago, please join us at the opening event, visit the exhibit during its run at Regenstein Library, and save the date for our Alumni Weekend curators panel in June. Details below:
- April 1 Gala Opening invitation and RSVP
- UChicago News story, “Exhibition Documents History of LGBTQ Life at UChicago” (March 25, 2015)
- Alumni Weekend invitation and curators panel details
It’s gratifying to see this research come to life, and I look forward to celebrating the generosity of our 95 oral history narrators, the many undergraduate students who worked as research assistants and oral history interviewers on the project, and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, which trusted us to make history.
Monica L. Mercado, Ph.D. 