THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Drawing on the rich holdings of the University of Chicago Library—including the papers of Marion Talbot and Ernest Burgess—and other major archives, the exhibition traces this complex history with letters, academic papers, student newspaper articles, posters, ephemera and photographs. It also introduces new materials and oral histories from alumni such as James Hormel, JD'58, former dean of students of the Law School and the first openly gay U.S. ambassador; cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, AM'66, PhD'68, who wrote the first major anthropological study of a homosexual community in the U.S. while a graduate student at UChicago; and Deborah Gould, AM'90, PhD'00, activist, scholar, and author of the first book to analyze the emergence, development and decline of the direct-action AIDS movement, ACT UP. As the campus newspaper, the Chicago Maroon declared in 1980, "The University of Chicago may be gayer than you think."

Runs March 30 — June 12, 2015. Opening Gala: April 1, 6—8 p.m.

Presented by the University of Chicago Library and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago at the Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Gallery, The University of Chicago Library

1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637

Exhibition hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.