Thursday, May 21, 2009

Another new exhibit

We've been busy...here's the announcement of another exhibit now appearing from Special Collections & Rare Books

Forty Years After Stonewall: The Gay Movement in America

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What: Exhibit: Forty Years After Stonewall: The Gay Movement in America
When: Through July 11, 2009
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public.

On the early morning of June 28, 1969, a riot broke out at Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn, the patrons fighting back after years of harassment and police raids on Gay establishments. Images from the Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies celebrate the launching of the modern Gay rights movement in the United States.

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