1973-11-23 First National Conference of Gay Academic Union

The inaugural conference of the Gay Academic Union opens at John Jay College in New York City. It was the first national gathering in the U.S. of a broad range of LGBT professors, graduate students, writers, and independent researchers, with over 300 people attending. Speakers included Martin Duberman, Barbara Gittings, and Howard Brown, and the proceedings were later published as The Universities and the Gay Experience.