On Monday, February 20, at 6:00 p.m. in the Handwerker Gallery, Paisley Currah, executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; John Hanson, assistant professor and director of Hope College's DePree Art Center and Gallery; a Hope College student; and several Ithaca College faculty members will hold a roundtable discussion, "The State of the Closet in Academia."
This event is being held in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's traveling exhibition "The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945" on exhibit in the Handwerker Gallery through February 26. The exhibit is sponsored at Ithaca College by the Handwerker Gallery, Hillel, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Education, Outreach, and Services.