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Holiday Closures – Week of 11/21

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…

New Exhibit Opening at Gerber/Hart!

Pink box with black censor lines at top and bottom, reading De-Coded, July 23rd, at 6 PM.

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…

Help LGBTQ History Continue

40 years ago, Gerber/Hart Library and Archives was founded. Since then, many things have changed, but the mission of Gerber/Hart has remained the same: to collect and preserve LGBTQ history in Chicago and the Midwest, and to make it accessible…

Help Make LGBTQ History Visible

For 40 years, Gerber/Hart has been the place to bring together, preserve, and make accessible the pieces of history for enabling research, presentation, and discovery of LGBTQ history in the Midwest. As Gerber/Hart continues to grow in its collections, services,…

The Word is Out about Unboxing Queer History (Updates)

Gerber/Hart’s podcast, Unboxing Queer History, has been notice by various news outlets. Please check out the following for additional information and interesting background about the podcast.  Interviews include Unboxing Queer History co-creators and producers Ari Mejia, Erin Bell, Jen Dentel,…

Unboxing Queer History

Gerber/Hart is releasing Unboxing Queer History, an eight episode podcast. The episodes will be released throughout the spring on the first and fourth Tuesdays of the month. Episodes will be available on Spotify and wherever you listen to podcasts in…

Chicago Pride Parade Pins

Earlier this month, over 50 boxes containing the 52 year history of the Chicago Pride Parade were received into Gerber/Hart’s collection. From this collection a set of Chicago Pride Parade pins have been assembled.