Reading: "Queerest Little City in the World: LGBT Reno During the 1960s"

Please join us Wednesday, June 29, at 6:30pm as we celebrate an exciting moment in history: the National Parks' Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Heritage Initiative. Award-winning American history and humanities instructor Jeff Auer will read "Queerest Little City in the World: LGBT Reno During the 1960s," a chapter from the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative Theme Study, a publication commissioned by the National Park Service (NPS). THE LGBTQ HERITAGE INITIATIVE The history of civil rights underscores a large part of American experience. Directed by Americans to steward and teach the nation’s history, the National Park Service connects and amplifies important national stories in cooperation with partner communities across the United States. The NPS LGBTQ Heritage Initiative is the latest effort in this proud NPS tradition of the documentation and interpretation of civil rights history. Recognizing that identities and communities are historically situated, the LGBTQ Initiative acknowledges lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer citizens in the United States, their contributions to American life and culture, and their efforts to create a safe and legitimate social and political place in American society. It explores various ways that this history can be recognized, preserved, and interpreted for future generations.