If “Stonewall” and its many lectures on universal gay rights symptomize a certain narrowing of the political imagination and representation, what are their alternatives? To contextualize this debate, students are encouraged to explore the visual and whitewashing legacies of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion. This includes the Hollywood film, Stonewall, directed by Roland Emmerich in 2015, which will be screened the evening before the lecture, Thursday, April 28th, (7:00 PM, Filene Auditorium). Pushing beyond “Stonewall,” the panelists will tackle a broad range of pressing questions and issues in the field of queer studies with wide implications outside the dominant, liberal landscape of urban, middle-class LGBT identities and individuals.

Sponsored by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Co-sponsored by the Associate Dean for International Studies and Interdisciplinary Programs, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth, the Departments of English and Geography, the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, PRIDE 2016, and OPAL - Sexuality, Women, and Gender.