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4/11/2025 This week is National Library Week. At Gerber/Hart, we’ve been thinking about our role and mission as a LGBTQ+ library & archives. The past few months have brought a flood of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and legislation. With the firing of…

Join Maryam Abidi, Staff Attorney from UIC’s Pro Bono Litigation Clinic, for a conversation about legal name and gender marker changes in Illinois. Professor Abidi will discuss current legal challenges and changes to help you navigate this process in Illinois.…

Join Gerber/Hart’s Play Reading Club on Saturday March 29th at 11 AM as they read along to Jen Silverman’s Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties! We’ll divvy up the roles, read aloud, and have a short discussion after. Come…

Join us on Thursday, March 13th, at 7 PM for a panel discussion with artists Hal Shipman, Amanda Cervantes, Bri Robinson, and James Hosking for a discussion about the role of archival materials in their artistic practices. Before and after…

Saturday 3/15! Join WTNB (Women, Trans, Non-Binary Leather/Kink Social) at Gerber/Hart to learn about the history of local kink for free! This WTNB x Gerber/Hart collaboration will include a tour of Gerber/Hart’s LGBTQ+ archives, one of the largest in the…

Join us at Gerber/Hart on Friday March 28th at 7:30 PM! for a presentation of six short plays about women who refine, define, and redefine the expression “out with the old” by Violet Surprise Theatre! Whether spotlighting women once considered…

Bring your stories and your curiosity to celebrate 30 years of About Face Theatre! Gerber/Hart will be joining About Face Theatre to help activate their archival collections. Gerber/Hart staff will also pop-up with a display of materials from Gerber/Hart’s collections…

Join us for an archive party at Dorothy to help add to the Dorothy Living Archive Collection! Enby Night attendees can bring zines, poems, pictures, or anything else they’d like to contribute to the collection. Gerber/Hart will have a display…

Gerber/Hart will be closed on Wednesday 2/12/25 due to severe weather. We plan to be open for our regular hours on Thursday (6-9 PM), Friday (12-4 PM), and Saturday (10 AM – 4 PM).