Acclaimed historian Marc Stein, Ph.D., the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University, comes to campus for a talk as part of VCU's celebtration of 40 years of LGBTQ activisim.

The event is free and open to the public. Forty years ago VCU's first LGBTQ student group, the Gay Alliance of Students, secured official recognition as a student organization following a two year legal struggle. This year we celebrate that victory, which coincided with the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence, as an important milestone on the path toward inclusion and acceptance for LGBTQ students, staff, and faculty at VCU. This Humanities Research Center speaker series examines the 1974-76 struggle at VCU and puts that local history into a broader national context.