The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Gender and Sexual Identity will host the dedication of the Louis Crompton Historical Marker.

Speakers for the event will include Chancellor Ronnie Green, Corrie Svehla, chair of the Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Gender and Sexual Identity, Timothy Schaffert, professor and director of the Creative Writing Program, Autumn Langemeier, historical marker program coordinator for History Nebraska, and Pat Tetreault, director of the LGBTQA+ Resource Center and Women’s Center.

Crompton joined the English department at the University of Nebraska in 1955, retiring in 1989. During his career, he gained an international reputation as a scholar of the works of George Bernard Shaw. In 1970, Crompton taught a gay studies class at the university, the Proseminar in Homophile Studies, the first fully approved course offered in the United States, an action that raised LGBT awareness in academia, Nebraska, and the nation.