The Denison University Lecture Series will host journalist Neil Miller to discuss "Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life from the Global Perspective." Miller uses extensive knowledge of history and his personal traveling experiences to explore the changing lives of gays and lesbians in the United States and abroad. This convocation, set for 7:30 p.m. on Monday (April 12) in Burton Morgan Lecture Hall, is free and open to the public.

Miller is the author of four books including the award-winning bookIn Search of Gay America, which examines the lives of gays and lesbians in small towns and rural areas. InOut in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok, Miller provides a large-scale look at gay and lesbian life around the globe whileOut of Pastlooks at over 100 years of gay and lesbian life around the world. His most recent book,Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s, details the destruction of the life of gay men in the American heartland during the McCarthy era.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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