The Gerber/Hart Spring Booksale will take place on Saturday, February 11th, from 10 AM – 3:30 PM at 6500 N Clark Street! Will you be our bookish valentine? Join us for some steamy sales and support Chicago LGBTQ history! We’re…
***Edited to include: due to the bad storm predicted, for the safety of our volunteers and staff Gerber/Hart will also be closed on Thursday December 22nd and Friday December 23rd*** Gerber/Hart will be closed on certain days in observance of…
Your Year-End Giving is Matched 2022 has been a year of renewal at Gerber/Hart, and one of our most dedicated supporters has not only renewed but increased their commitment with an extraordinary $10,000 matching challenge. That means that now through Dec…
Observe AIDS Awareness month by joining guest speakers from the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) and the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives for a panel discussion about AIDS activism and organizing! This talk will feature archival material such as zines and…
November 29, 2022 is Giving Tuesday! The Archives of Gerber/Hart are so much more than stacks of boxes in climate-controlled rooms. Every box—and there over a thousand—contains the stories, ideas, quirks, research, and ephemera that encapsulate the lives and works…
Gerber/Hart will have slightly different hours the week of 11/21 on Thursday and Saturday. Wednesday 11/23 – open 6:00 – 9:00 PM Thursday 11/24 – CLOSED Friday 11/25 – open 12:00 – 4:00 PM Saturday 11/26 – open 10:00 AM…
John D’Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing. How does a boy from an Italian…
Learn about queer women in the 1950s Chicago and all about one of the 20th century’s most important lesbian pulp fiction authors Valerie Taylor on this 3-mile running tour in the Loop! Guide Quinn Sluzenski will stop at real-life queer…
Sink your teeth into the throbbing vein of queer vampire films! Friday, October 28, 2022, FACETS explores the queerest of all horror subgenres, the vampire film, with DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (1971) and THE HUNGER (1983), while also spotlighting two luminous…
Join us for a very special exhibit opening of Gerber/Hart’s newest exhibit! De-Coded: Surviving the Law as a Sexual Deviant opens on Saturday, July 23rd, at 6 PM! Join curators Anna Mason, Whit Sadusky, and Jess Smoot along with historian…