Coming Out! A Documentary Play About Gay and Lesbian Life and Liberation

Name: Coming Out! A Documentary Play About Gay and Lesbian Life and Liberation
Start: 2025-03-06T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-06T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Rotunda

Schedule

Thu Mar 06 2025 at 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Rotunda | Philadelphia, PA

A dramatic read of queer/trans history, romp through oppression/rebellion. Hear/say tales of desire. Balm for our current crises. Come Out!
About this Event

Please join in reading, Coming Out! A documentary play on gay and lesbian life and liberation by the historian Jonathan Ned Katz. All present will participate in the reading of the play, which was done on campus by the Gay Activist Alliance in 1974, in what is now known as ARCH. Characters include Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, Gertude Stein, Alice B. Toklas , Kate Millett, Judy Grahn, Allen Ginsberg and a chorus of saucy trans women who narrate the Stonewall Rebellion. Thursday, March 6th from 4-6 pm in The Rotunda.