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Shoulders to Stand On In-Person
Beginning with a small group of students and the formation of the Gay Liberation Front at the University of Rochester, Shoulders to Stand On reveals a largely unknown and undocumented history of Rochester’s LGBTQ+ community and its influences across the nation. Audiences are engaged through very personal stories, a journey that celebrates New York’s oldest gay newspaper, the first openly gay candidate elected to public office in NY, a fight for federal funding, the first city in New York to pass a domestic partnership policy and more recently the passage of
Evelyn Bailey, the executive producer of Shoulders to Stand On, is the Rochester LGBTQ+ Archivist Chair and historian at the Out Alliance.
- Date:
- Wednesday, June 12, 2019
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 8:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Central - Kusler-Cox Auditorium
- Library:
- Central Library
- Audience:
- All Ages
- Categories:
- Department - Local History & Genealogy
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