A Place at the Table: A Gathering of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Text, Image, and Voice

Exhibit - Multimedia | April 5 – July 9, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Bancroft Library, Gallery

Sponsor: Bancroft Library

You are invited to a grand party. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are your hosts. Gathered in one room there are over 150 years of Americans who embody a rainbow of diversity, but have one thing in common—a non-normative sexual orientation.

Here are the old and the young of many races and ethnicities. In text, image, and voice these individuals have taken their unique and often difficult life experiences and transmuted them into beautiful and fierce art.

In 1919 a Crow Indian named Woman Jim explained life as a berdache in four words: "That is my road." For the LGBT guests at this party—the poets and the novelists, the cartoonists and the classical composers, the drag queens and the blues singers, the starving artists and the superstars—this is their road.

For more information, see this news release.

Event Contact: bancroft@library.berkeley.edu, 510-642-3782

(No event on these dates: May 28; July 4, 2012)