Sat, Jun 21
|Missoula Public Library (Copper B Room)
The Intermediaries and Their Allies
Learn about LGBTIQ2S+ people and politics in Europe, the US, and Montana from the 1800s to the present in this panel-discussion and pop-up exhibit!
Time & Location
Jun 21, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Missoula Public Library (Copper B Room), 455 E Main St, Missoula, MT 59802, USA
About the Event
This panel-discussion will feature Brandy Schillace, author of THE INTERMEDIARIES, a new book on Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science in Weimar Germany, told from the perspective of transgender patient Dora Richter; UM Regents Professor Anya Jabour, author of a forthcoming book on sex researcher Katharine Bement Davis, whose 1929 book FACTORS IN THE SEX LIFE OF 2200 WOMEN revealed that between one-third and one-half of American women engaged in same-sex relationships, and who also cited Hirschfeld's writings. It will be accompanied by a new pop-up historical exhibit designed by UM alum Caspen Black, tentatively titled "Crossings: Two Centuries of Gender Nonconformity and Gender Diversity in Montana," highlighting Hirschfeld's surprising Montana connections, and by a short film produced by UM alum River Watson about the Queer In and Out of Montana Oral History Project. Dr. Schillace's books will be for sale at the event, courtesy of Fact & Fiction, and attendees are…