{"id":16139,"date":"2024-10-02T15:39:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/?p=16139"},"modified":"2024-10-02T18:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:20:21","slug":"coming-out-day-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/coming-out-day-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot to Go (to the Library): Coming Out Day 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/10\/Playing-With-Queer-Futures-Final-Main-Green-2-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/10\/Playing-With-Queer-Futures-Final-Main-Green-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/10\/Playing-With-Queer-Futures-Final-Main-Green-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/10\/Playing-With-Queer-Futures-Final-Main-Green-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/10\/Playing-With-Queer-Futures-Final-Main-Green-2.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday, October 11, 2024 is National Coming Out Day! Celebrate and explore the joys and pleasures of queerness with a day of crafting, food, community, and history at the Brown University Library!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s theme, <strong>Playing with Queer Futures,<\/strong> invites you on a pride-filled and playful journey across four Brown Library stations plus the Main Green to connect, celebrate, and create our visions for queer futures!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visit each of the following Library sites, collect a limited-edition sticker at each Coming Out Day station, and enter to win a raffle at our table on the Main Green, where you\u2019ll find us hanging out with our friends from <a href=\"https:\/\/lgbtq.brown.edu\/about\/stonewall-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stonewall House<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>THE ROCK: Cruising Crafts from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m<\/strong>.: Cruise by the crafting table in the <strong>Lobby of the Rock<\/strong> where you can play with collage, button-making, t-shirt transfers, and more!&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>ORWIG: Queer Joy Vinyl Listening Party<\/strong> f<strong>rom 1:30 to 2:30 p.m<\/strong>. Come to <strong>Orwig 109<\/strong> for an hour-long listening party featuring queer deep cuts from Orwig\u2019s vinyl record collection. Come for ABBA, stay for Bikini Kill. Refreshments provided!&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>SCI-LI \/ SCI-FI from 1 to 3:30 p.m<\/strong>. Beam yourself up at the SciLi\u2019s queer playscape. Contribute to the collective scroll and \u201cpicture\u201d your queer future at our color-filled selfie space.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>THE HAY<\/strong>:<strong> Time Traveling with Queer Collections Open House<\/strong> <strong>from<\/strong> <strong>noon to 4 p.m. in Hay 321<\/strong>: Time travel through queer history with a hands-on open house featuring materials from the Hay\u2019s collections. Refreshments in the Lobby!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>THE HAY: Queer Community Reception from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Hay Lobby<\/strong>: Join us for a community gathering at 4 p.m. to enjoy snacks (and each other!) as we listen to the <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/1EwBTjznvFkaDFcLaS0r7L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Coming Out Day 2024 Spotify<\/strong> <strong>Queer Play-List<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MAIN GREEN from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. <\/strong>Stop by our table at the Main Green to explore Library materials related to queer life and say hello to our friends and collaborators @ Stonewall House and the Sarah Doyle Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, October 11, 2024 is National Coming Out Day! Celebrate and explore the joys and pleasures of queerness with a day of crafting, food, community, and history at the Brown University Library!&nbsp; This year\u2019s theme, Playing with Queer Futures, invites you on a pride-filled and playful journey across four Brown Library stations plus the Main <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/coming-out-day-2024\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Hot to Go (to the Library): Coming Out Day 2024<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34,35,8,155,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-general-interest","category-hay","category-home-page","category-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16146,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions\/16146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}