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| |  | | Collaboraction Room 300 at The Flat Iron Building
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| |  | | Spyners Pub
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| |  | | Emerald City Theatre at the Apollo Theater
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| |  | | Dance Chicago at the Athenaeum Theatre
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| |  | | LiveWire Chicago at Tom Robinson Gallery
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| |  | | Writers Theatre at Books On Vernon
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| |  | | Buzz22 Chicago at the Steppenwolf Garage
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| |  | | Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
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| |  | | Victory Gardens Theater
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| |  | | Ethel M. Barber Theater at Northwestern Univiversity
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| |  | | Mary's Attic
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| |  | | MPAACT at the Greenhouse Theater Center
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| |  | | First Folio Theatre at Mayslake Peabody Estate
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| |  | | Red Tape Theatre
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| |  | | Steppenwolf Theatre Company
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| |  | | Innexile
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| |  | | Black Ensemble Theater
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| |  | | Second Story Bar
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| |  | | Goodman Theatre in the Albert 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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