Podcast episodes
Season 1
S01 E08 - QUEERS READ THIS: 90s Queer Activism and Exhibits at Gerber/Hart
Every year, groups of volunteers at Gerber/Hart work for months researching for two large yearly exhibits. In 2019, five volunteers, Whit Sadusky, Veronica Rodriguez, Chase Ollis, Kurt Conley, and James Conley worked to create an ...
S01 E07 - Bill Kelley: A Lifetime of Chicago Activism
Episode 7 of Unboxing Queer History is all about William B Kelley - a lifelong Chicago LGBTQ activist. The William B. Kelley and Chen K. Ooi collection is the cornerstone collection of Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, taking up m...
S01 E06 - GALS Just Want to Have Fun: A Lesbian Fishing Group for Chicago
“It was just an idea and we just went for it, and it turned out to be a heck of a lot of fun.” GALS (the Great Angling Lesbian Society) was founded in 1994 by Sherry Pethers and Susan McCann. Sherry and Susan met in the late 1980s...
S01 E05 - Lorrainne Sade Baskerville: Joy, Survival, Legacy
“I did not come out of the closet. I stepped out on the scene.”Lorrainne Sade Baskerville is a Black trans woman who founded Chicago’s first trans-run, trans-serving social agency called transGenesis. Between 1995-2003, its servic...
S01 E04 - People Like Us: So Much More than a Bookstore
"An Exclusively Gay and Lesbian Bookstore for Chicago"Time travel with us to a very special place in episode four of Unboxing Queer History!Between 1988 and 1997, Carrie Barnett and Brett Shingledecker founded and ran People Like ...