Out + Proud Around the World and Through the Centuries

Can’t Make The Time? Register in advance and receive access to the recording for 14 days after the live Zoom tour. All advance registrants will receive an email after the live event that will include the link for the recording.

Meet LGBTQ+ people who have stood up and stood out proudly throughout history. Celebrate National Coming Out Day with our inspirational, historical talk!

We discuss the lives and achievements of pioneers who defied social conventions and expressed their own sexualities and/or genders, often at great personal cost.

During this talk, you will meet LGBTQ pioneers like the following heroes:

• Ancient Roman poet Catullus, who publicly made fun of Roman strictures against same-gender love

• The Athenian general who shocked ancient society by confessing how he tried to seduce the great Socrates when he was young–and failed
• The Renaissance Florentine painter who was called Mr. Sodom–and didn’t object
• Cyrano de Bergerac and his love life, which did not involve his female cousin
• Magnus Hirschfeld, who publicly demanded an end to sodomy laws in Germany in 1867
• The butch lesbian who argued with Hemingway and Picasso while her wife sewed with the wives
• The Dutch anti-Nazi resistance hero who said just before his execution that his actions showed that homosexuals are not cowards
• Greta Garbo and how she got the first lesbian kiss into a movie in 1933, before the Hays Code stifled sexuality and content in Hollywood

Meet LGBTQ pioneers whose efforts to live authentically have paved the way for our community today!