#closetedout

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Thanks for the Closeted/Out mention!

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Today is the last day to visit Closeted/Out in Regenstein Library. Missed the exhibition? Check out the online catalog, here.

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Visitors at Regenstein Library view the exhibition “Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles.” Molly Liu, AB’13, left, served as an undergraduate intern who collected oral histories for the project. (Photo courtesy of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.) Closeted/Out closes on June 12.

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With the Closeted/Out exhibition’s final days in the gallery approaching, curator Lauren Stokes answers questions about her research process, and described the connections and tensions between the LGBTQ experience on campus and the life of the mind. Closeted/Out closes Jun 12.

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View the UChicago square of the AIDS Quilt, Block #753, on loan from the NAMES Project Foundation. The NAMES Project AIDS quilt square lists some of the students and faculty lost to the epidemic. (Image courtesy of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.) Closeted/Out closes on Friday, June 12.

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6:00PM - 9:30PM Sat 6 Jun 2015 LGBTQ Event for Alumni Weekend 2015

Want more LGBTQ history? Join us during the closing week of Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles at Regenstein Library during Alumni Weekend 2015! RSVP at the link.

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Next Monday: join Closeted/Out intern Kris Rosentel with oral history narrator and UChicago alum Murray Edelman for lunch and conversation about the modern LGBTQ+ movement.

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Thanks to everyone--including Provost Isaacs and his family, Dean Boyer, and some of our oral history narrators--who packed Special Collections last night for the gala opening of Closeted/Out. Can't make it to Regenstein Library? Read the exhibition catalog here!