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Thursday, April 18
The 6th annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival continues tonight at sunset with a screening of the Paul Newman film The Hustler. The screening will be at Butler Field in Grant Park (Lake Shore Drive & Monroe), and admission is free. See the City of Chicago Website for a complete schedule of the festival, which runs every Tuesday night through August 23.
Tonight marks the kick-off of a series of talks by local graduate and post-doc students of queer history and culture at the Gerber/Hart Library. The event will be introduced by John D'Emilio of the University of Illinois at Chicago and will feature a discussion by Margo Miller of her paper "Identity and Community in Travel Magazines: What Makes Tourism Gay?." The program starts at 7pm and is free; the library is located at 1127 W. Granville. More information available at the G/H website.