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2020 is the 100th anniversary of Harvard’s Secret Court—a secret tribunal investigating homosexual life on campus that expelled eight students, forced the resignation of an assistant professor, and led to a suicide. It wasn’t until 2002 that this history was rediscovered by a student journalist. Join The History Project and Kamille Washington and Timothy Patrick McCarthy for a discussion of the uncovering of this suppressed history, its legacy for LGBTQ life in the university, and their own relationship to it, as alum and employees of Harvard.

About the speakers

Kamille Washington is a current student in the Mid-Career MPA Program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She received her Bachelor’s degree in the Comparative Study of Religion from Harvard in 2010. She is a former president of the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus, Harvard’s LGBTQIA+ alumni organization. She is also one half of the Unfriendly Black Hotties, a podcast about the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in higher ed, pop culture, and politics.

Timothy Patrick McCarthy is an award-winning historian, educator, and human rights activist who has taught on the faculty at Harvard University since 2005. He is the author or editor of five books from the New Press, including the forthcoming Stonewall’s Children: Living Queer History in an Age of Liberation, Loss, and Love. He was a founding member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Council and gave expert testimony to the Pentagon Comprehensive Working Group on the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

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This event is free and open to the public, any donations made will support The History Project’s mission to document, preserve, and share LGBTQ history. Thank you for your support!