Last week we met up with our friend Karen to hear a lecture on Queer Exclusions: Sexuality and U.S. Citizenship at the Chicago History Museum, given by Siobhan Sommerville of English Department at the University of Illinois. Sommerville wrote a great book called Queering the Color Line a few years back, and is now at work on queering citizenship. We were expected a small crowd of maybe 50 or so people, so you can imagine how surprised we were to walk into a sold out room of 450! Her talk was part of the "Out at CHM" series. Famed transgender activist Susan Stryker is the next speaker in the series so stay tuned. She has a new film out that will be shown the Sunday before her talk.
After the talk we went out to eat at Adesso, an Italian place on Broadway in Boystown, and then to The Closet, a gay bar across the street for nightcap. A DJ in there was trying to get people to do Karioke, but we escaped unscathed!
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