LGBTQ+ History for Healthcare Organizations
Research-driven exhibits and educational programs that bring LGBTQ+ history into healthcare, medical education, and public health.
Healthcare professionals encounter LGBTQ+ patients, colleagues, students, and communities every day. Expanding Horizons helps hospitals, health systems, medical schools, health sciences libraries, and public health organizations bring historical context into those environments through traveling exhibits, presentations, workshops, and custom projects.
Why Healthcare Organizations Choose Expanding Horizons
Healthcare institutions have many opportunities to educate their communities, but developing historically rigorous LGBTQ+ programming from scratch takes research, preparation, and staff time.
Expanding Horizons provides ready-to-host exhibits and educational programs grounded in primary-source research and historical scholarship. Programs can support existing educational priorities while giving learners and professionals a deeper understanding of LGBTQ+ history.
What We Offer
Traveling LGBTq+ History Exhibits
Professionally designed, museum-quality banner exhibits bring LGBTQ+ history into hospitals, medical schools, libraries, conference spaces, and other healthcare environments. Exhibits ship nationwide and install with minimal staff support
Speaking & Educational Programs
Bring curator Vince Tripi to your institution for a presentation, guest lecture, workshop, professional-development session, grand rounds, or medical-student program.
Programs can explore LGBTQ+ history through medicine, public health, science, HIV/AIDS, civil rights, professional culture, or another topic relevant to your audience.
Custom History Projects
Looking to document or interpret your institution's own history?
Expanding Horizons can research and develop original exhibits and other history projects using institutional archives, oral histories, primary sources, and historical scholarship.
Bring LGBTQ+ history into healthcare learning
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Medical education
Bring historical perspective to lectures, seminars, grand rounds, orientation, or student programming.
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Professional development
Give clinicians and staff a substantive way to engage with LGBTQ+ history and healthcare.
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Health sciences libraries
Use a traveling exhibit to complement collections, displays, research guides, or public programming.
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Public health education
Explore the history behind HIV/AIDS, health activism, prevention, community health, and institutional responses.
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LGBTQ+ health programming
Provide historical context for conversations about LGBTQ+ patients and healthcare.
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Pride Month & LGBT History Month
Add a substantial educational experience to institutional observances.
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Medical school & residency programming
Introduce students and trainees to the history of LGBTQ+ people in medicine and science.
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Employee and affinity-group programming
Give LGBTQ+ employee groups and their colleagues something to learn and discuss together.
Ideal ForThis programming is especially well suited for:
Hospitals & Health Systems 🏥
Medical Schools 🎓
Residency & Fellowship Programs 🥼
Schools of Public Health 😷
Academic Health Sciences Libraries 📚
Medical Libraries 🔎
Public Health Organizations 🌍
Healthcare Professional Associations ⚕️
LGBTQ+ Employee & Affinity Groups 🏳️⚧️
Community Health Organizations 💉
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Hospitals & Health Systems 🏥 Medical Schools 🎓 Residency & Fellowship Programs 🥼 Schools of Public Health 😷 Academic Health Sciences Libraries 📚 Medical Libraries 🔎 Public Health Organizations 🌍 Healthcare Professional Associations ⚕️ LGBTQ+ Employee & Affinity Groups 🏳️⚧️ Community Health Organizations 💉 First-Year Experience Programs 1️⃣
History that belongs in healthcare
The Power Here Is You
A case study in the history of HIV/AIDS, community health, public-health education, and medical response.
The Power Here Is You follows Milwaukee's response to AIDS from the early 1980s through the arrival of effective antiretroviral therapy. The exhibit examines the people and organizations that built local systems of testing, treatment, prevention, education, and support.
Through Science to Justice
Scientists and mathematicians have always been part of LGBTQ+ history.
Through Science to Justice introduces audiences to LGBTQ+ figures whose work changed their fields, while placing their achievements within the larger history of LGBTQ+ life.
Blossom & Wilt
Queer lives have always been part of the history of modern medicine and sexology.
Blossom & Wilt profiles Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, his Institute for Sexual Science, and his ethnographic research into sexuality and gender. The exhibit examines the people, ideas, and evidence that shaped his work, and the destruction of his Institute under Nazi rule.
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How Engagements Work
1. Choose Your Experience
Select a traveling exhibit, presentation, workshop, or custom project.
2. Define the Audience
Tell us who you're serving and what you want the program to accomplish.
3. Build the Engagement
We collaborate on the right format, timing, logistics, and any appropriate customization.
4. Bring It to Your Institution
Your exhibit or program arrives ready for your audience, with support from Expanding Horizons throughout the engagement.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Most exhibits consist of seven to eleven retractable banners. Plan approximately three linear feet per banner for comfortable viewing.
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Most libraries host exhibits for approximately three weeks, although longer engagements can often be accommodated.
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Yes. Our exhibits are designed for professional and educational environments, including hospitals, lobbies, cafeterias, and health sciences libraries.
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Absolutely. Many libraries combine an exhibit rental with a keynote presentation, author talk, workshop, or community discussion.
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Yes. Vince offers guest lectures and educational programs for medical students, residents, and other health-professions learners. Tell us about your audience and program.
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Yes. Vince can tailor presentations and workshops for grand rounds, professional development, and other educational programs. Share your goals and audience, and we can discuss an approach.
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Yes. Exhibits are frequently booked for Pride Month, LGBT History Month, Women's History Month, Black History Month, Disability Pride Month, STEM programming, and interdisciplinary educational initiatives.
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Yes. Exhibits are designed specifically for nationwide shipping.
Bringing History Into Your Community
Hospitals, medical schools, libraries, and public-health organizations have a role in preserving and sharing the history of the communities they serve.
Expanding Horizons helps healthcare institutions turn historical research into exhibitions and educational experiences that give audiences new context for LGBTQ+ life, medicine, science, and public health.
Whether you're planning an exhibit, a guest lecture, a grand rounds program, or a larger educational initiative, we'd be glad to help you find the right fit.
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