This is a hybrid event featuring a webinar lecture and discussion with Dr. Marc Stein, President of the Organization of American Historians, on Queer Public History Today. To join the lecture virtually please click the registration link.
Marc Stein is the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of U.S. History and Constitutional Law at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s (2026); Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism (2022); The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (2019); Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (2012, 2023); Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (2010); and City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-72 (2000). Stein is the director of the OutHistory website and the 2026-27 president of the Organization of American Historians. He previously served as editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of LGBT History in America (2003); founding director of the York University Sexuality Studies Program (2006-2009); first chair of the OAH Committee on the Status of LGBTQ Historians and Histories (2013-15); and founding coeditor of Queer Pasts (2020-25).
Those joining in person at RIT's Alumni House will enjoy lunch with the lecture, which will be followed by a presentation by Dr. Tamar Carroll of the RIT Department of History about the forthcoming exhibition, "Picturing Equality: The Lambda Network at Kodak," on view at George Eastman Museum (GEM) June 27-Nov. 8, 2026, and related public programming that will take place this summer and fall at GEM.
Please submit interpreting requests to myAccess.rit.edu.
The event is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Mellon Foundation.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required and those attending in person must register by May 7, 2026.
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