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Gay Switchboard general flyer

Evan Wolfson lecture event flyer

Gay Awareness Week calendar of events

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? event flyer

Gay Awareness Week calendar of events

A Night of New Wave

Potluck Dinner

Gay V.D. Discussion flyer

Gay Illini's 3rd Annual Halloween Bar Benefit flyer

Past, Present, and Future flyer

Laverne Cox event

Don Lemon event flyer

  • Gay Switchboard general flyer
    Image | 1976 | LGBT at UIUCFlyer for the Gay Switchboard
  • Evan Wolfson lecture event flyer
    Image | 2015 | LGBT at UIUCEvent flyer for an Evan Wolfson lecture entitled "Marriage as a Human Rights Battlefield." Wolfson was the executive director of The Freedom to Marry Project and an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University.
  • Gay Awareness Week calendar of events
    Image | 1986 | LGBT at UIUCGay Awareness Week was created by the group when it was under the Gay Illini name. These events eventually became LGBT Awareness Days in later years under other group and office names.
  • Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? event flyer
    Image | 1979 | LGBT at UIUCA flyer announcing a movie night event sponsored by the Gay Illini. "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" has long been deemed a classic in the "gay film repetoire," along with "All About Eve," "Valley of the Dolls," "Mommie Dearest," and others.
  • Gay Awareness Week calendar of events
    Image | 1983 | LGBT at UIUCGay Awareness Week was created by the group when it was under the Gay Illini name. These events eventually became LGBT Awareness Days in later years under other group and office names.
  • A Night of New Wave
    Image | 1983 | LGBT at UIUCFundraiser flyer for the Gay Illini. The Gay Illini regularly held benefits and fundraisers to help pay for the robust programming of the organization.
  • Potluck Dinner
    Image | 1976 | LGBT at UIUCFlyer announcing a strictly lesbian event. Presumably the Gay Illini group felt that the term "gay" was encompassing of lesbian women, although the presence of the address for a separate group is shown on the bottom of the flyer. The group went through a myriad of name changes reflective of changes in LGBT culture throughout the years.
  • Gay V.D. Discussion flyer
    Image | 1979 | LGBT at UIUCA flyer announcing an open discussion on "Gay V.D.s". Although the full blown AIDS epidemic in America wouldn't happen for a few years, the community was already concerned about other illnesses or conditions that may be specific to gay or lesbian sex.
  • Gay Illini's 3rd Annual Halloween Bar Benefit flyer
    Image | 1979 | LGBT at UIUCGiovanni's was a haven for LGBT culture in the late seventies.
  • Past, Present, and Future flyer
    Image | 1983 | LGBT at UIUCthe United States government. Her early experiences with trying to learn more about lesbianism fueled her lifetime work with libraries. In the 1970s, Gittings was most involved in the American Library Association, especially its gay caucus, the first such in a professional organization, in order to promote positive literature about homosexuality in libraries. She was a part ...
  • Laverne Cox event
    Image | LGBT at UIUCEvent flyer for Laverne Cox, best known for her role as Sophia Burset on Orange is the New Black.
  • Don Lemon event flyer
    Image | 2012 | LGBT at UIUCEvent flyer for an evening with CNN journalist Don Lemon.
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