Join Professor Lear for an in depth talk on LGBTQIA history and the people who were out and proud in history!

Through the centuries, there have always been people whose sexuality and/or gender identity did not conform with the rules of their cultures—people who owned their identity and spoke out. This talk is a celebration of some amazing ones, such as:

• LiEve Adams, a Polish Jewish anarchist who opened a famous lesbian bar in 1920s New York

• Lord Alfred Douglas, who has a terrible reputation from his relationship with Oscar Wilde--but also wrote the line, "I am the love that dares not speak its name"

• Gad Beck, a gay Jewish teen-age resistance leader in Nazi Berlin,

• Colette, author, stripper, and lover of the aristocratic trans man Max de Morny

• And the hijras of India, a traditional third sex numbering in the millions in today's India

Professor Andrew Lear is a renowned expert on gender and sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome. During his academic career, he taught at Harvard (where he won the Harvard Certificate for Excellence in Teaching four times), Pomona College, and NYU. In recent years, he has founded Oscar Wilde Tours, the LGBTQ+ history and culture tour company and Shady Ladies Tours, a women's history and culture tour company. He is also working with Stephen Fry and Tan France on an LGBTQ+ history TV series called "Straightwashed" and a movie about a gay Jewish hero of the anti-Nazi resistance called "Boy from Berlin."