This is the story of how a collection of written material started in a basement – but soon outgrew the space.
After 42 years, it has become the largest collection of LGBTQ+ materials in the Midwest – and it fills a library in Rogers Park.is located on the second floor at 6500 N. Clark St. – above Howard Brown Health Clark. The library grows by the book.The library also grows by the volunteer. CBS 2's Noel Brennan visited as Bell gave a tour to prospective volunteers at Gerber/Hart.
Gerber/Hart holds onto history – and not just in the form of literature. Mounted on the wall is a big mouth with a tongue sticking out – which Bell said used to hang in Carol's Speakeasy – a drag and disco bar formerly located at 1355 N. Wells St. in Old Town."And when it closed, they gave it to us - and it is incredibly heavy," Bell said of the big tongue.
"There's a richness to queer history in Chicago - and there's still so much more to be learned and explored," Bell said,"and we have but a fraction of it here - and we have a lot of that small fraction.""Our library is bursting at the seams," Bell said.
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