Out + Proud Around the World and Through the Centuries

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Meet LGBTQ+ people who have stood up and stood out proudly throughout history.

Join us for a fascinating journey through queer history as we celebrate the lives and achievements of pioneers who defied social convention to live authentically—often at great personal cost.

In this eye-opening talk, you’ll meet trailblazers who helped shape LGBTQ visibility across time and cultures, including:

• Alexander the Great, whose love life was as legendary as his conquests
• The first male nude in art after a millennium of censorship
• The bisexual Hollywood star who quipped she was “pure as the driven slush”
• The actor who walked away from fame rather than marry a “beard”
• America’s first openly gay artist
• The activist who founded both the first gay bookstore and the first Pride march
• The poet who took the U.S. Post Office to court for banning his work—and won
• The cross-dressing, bisexual novelist who inspired Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
• The French poet-provocateur who fled to Capri with an early gay erotic muse

…and many more who changed the world simply by being themselves.

Celebrate the courage, creativity, and resilience of LGBTQ people through the ages—and discover how their stories continue to inspire pride today.

About Our Presenter: Art Historian Professor Andrew Lear

A four-time winner of the Harvard Certificate for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Andrew Lear has taught art history and Classics at Harvard, Columbia, and NYU. Lear is the founder of Oscar Wilde Tours, the first company to offer tours focused on LGBT history, and the winner of the Travel Industry’s 2016 Travvy Award for best-escorted tour operator, LGBT; and the Luxury Travel Guide’s 2016 LGBT Tour Operator of the Year. in 2021, Lear founded WeWereThere.org, an educational nonprofit dedicated to raising public awareness of LGBTQ histories and stories.

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“It was one of the best trips we have ever taken. Professor Lear is knowledgeable, personable, and funny, and his explanations cover a wide range of topics, including things that get left out in most tours.” — Bennet Marks

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