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Book Talk With With Charles H. Ford | Queer VirginiaTuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Library of Virginia Conference Rooms
This event is free and open to the public. Register at https://lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/15187738
Limited free parking is available underneath the Library at 800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA
Join us for a talk by historian Charles H. Ford on the new work he co-edited with Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, “Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion.”
The book offers a long-needed record of the courageous and creative ways that LGBTQ+ people across the Commonwealth have persevered and fought for their rights. The remarkable and illuminating history recovered here includes the life of Hannah Nokes, a Black transgender woman who overcame severe discrimination in Loudoun County during the 1930s; the story of the Hershee Bar, a historic lesbian bar in Norfolk and longtime community focal point; and efforts to gather oral histories and produce a queer digital archive in the old capital of the Confederacy. Full of poignant and telling glimpses of LGBTQ+ life through the decades, this volume reveals generations of widespread prejudice and oppressive laws and the inspiring resilience that queer Virginians brought to this struggle.��
Ford, a professor of history at Norfolk State University, is also the co-author with Jeffrey L. Littlejohn of “Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk Public Schools.”
For more information, contact [email protected].
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800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23219
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