Fun Places to Gay
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| | | | Spyners Pub
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| | | | Collaboraction Room 300 at The Flat Iron Building
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| | | | Citadel Theatre Company
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| | | | Apollo Theater
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| | | | DanceWorks Chicago at Harris Theater for Music and Dance
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| | | | The Second City etc Stage
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| | | | First Folio Theatre at Mayslake Peabody Estate
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| | | | MCA Stage at the Edlis Neeson Theatre
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| | | | Victory Gardens Theater
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| | | | Chicago Dramatists
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| | | | American Theatre Company
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| | | | The Station House
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| | | | UP Comedy Club
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| | | | The House Theatre of Chicago at the Chopin Theatre
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| | | | Writers Theatre
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| | | | The Courtyard Theater at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
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| | | | Theatre and Interpretation Center of Northwestern University
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| | | | Steep Theatre Company
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| | | | A Red Orchid Theatre
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| Thursday August 2nd
Queers Homophile Documentary Film Screening 6:30pm - 9:30pm
=In conjunction with the "Gay is Good" exhibition, two documentaries covering the homophile era of LGBTQ political activism.
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (2005, 57 min) is a documentary about transgender women and drag queens who fought police harassment at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin in 1966.
Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago (2009, 109 min) is a documentary on LGBTQ life in Chicago from 1934 to 1974. Moving from the speakeasys and Henry Gerber's founding of the Society for Human Rights in the 1930s, to the underground social structure of the 1940s and 1950s, to the dawn of consciousness-raising entities such as the Daughters of Bilitus and Mattachine Midwest in the 1960's, and concluding with the emergence of the gay liberation movement with the first Pride March and opening of the first community center in the early 1970s.
The screening will be held at the library in the Atrium on Thursday, Aug 2, 6:30-9:30 pm. The screening is free, but due to limited seating reservations are required. Link to reserve seating. The exhibit will be open for viewing before and after the screening.
Gerber Hart Library and Archives 6500 N Clark St Chicago, IL 60626 (773) 381-8030
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