Tuesday, October 11, 2016

“Recovering and Preserving Our LGBTQ Past” with Historians Richard Godbeer and Marc Stein: Diversity Richmond

Thursday, October 13th 2016, at 7pm, at the Iridian Gallery at Diversity Richmond (1407 Sherwood Avenue, Richmond VA), there will be an event titled “Recovering and Preserving Our LGBTQ Past.”

Two acclaimed historians of US LGBTQ history, Richard Godbeer (director of the Humanities Research Center and professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University) and Marc Stein (Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University) will speak on the importance of recovering and preserving local and institutional histories relating to the LGBTQ experience. In particular, they will speak on the 40th anniversary of the successful lawsuit to compel VCU to officially recognize its first LGBTQ student group.

Free, open to the public. Email RSVP@diversityrichmond.org to RSVP.

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