The University of North Texas LGBT archives hosts its first event this evening with an opening reception at 5 p.m.
The Dallas Way will present an edition of Outrageous Oral at 7 p.m. at the Willis Library.
An exhibit drawn from the former Phil Johnson Library that was housed at Resource Center and are now archived at UNT will be on display. The collection includes about 100,000 items.
As part of the archiving project, copies of Dallas Voice from issue No. 1 published in 1983 have been transferred to UNT along with other Dallas Voice publications including Q Texas, TXT and Texas Triangle. The school applied for a grant to digitize the entire run.
Already online in searchable PDF format are 388 issues of Dallas Voice from 2004 through 2013.
The speakers for Outrageous Oral are trans activist Nell Gaither, UNT Vice President for Equity and Diversity Gilda Garcia, UNT Regents Professor-Kinesiology, Health Promotion & Recreational Studies Chwee-Lye Chng and The Dallas Way co-founder Bruce Monroe. Chng also served on the board of Resource Center in the 1990s.
Willis Library is at 1506 Highland Ave., Denton. The exhibit will remain on display through January.
