On May 15, 2014 CSGS will open a four-week preview to our long-term exhibition project Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles: A History of LGBTQ Life at the University of Chicago. Highlights from our first year of collecting will be on display at CSGS, showcasing the work of the Center's student oral history researchers.
Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles is a project of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality documenting LGBTQ life at the University of Chicago from the early twentieth century through the present day collecting oral history interviews with LGBTQ alumni, faculty, and staff, and mining local and national archives.
Based on previous research into women's experience at the University, CSGS students and faculty identified a pressing need to capture the history and experience of LGBTQ individuals and communities at the University of Chicago. The three-year project will culminate in an exhibit at Special Collections Research Center at Regenstein Library in Spring 2015 and a permanent oral history archive that can be accessed by future generations of researchers and community members. Oral history narrators are also donating personal papers, organizational records, photographs, and digital files as part of the archive.
Date: May 15, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Date: May 15, 2014
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM