Tuesday, March 11, 2025 4pm to 5:30pm
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Mitchell Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
Brandon Wolf’s life changed forever on June 12, 2016 when a gunman opened fire in Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Wolf narrowly escaped, but two of his best friends were among the 49 victims of America’s second deadliest mass shooting. The attack has been called an act of terrorism against the LGBTQ community.
After channeling his life into fighting for a safer world, Wolf is now a nationally recognized LGBTQ civil rights advocate and leader in the movement to end gun violence. He will share his story at the 2025 Ida B. Wells lecture, Violence: An American Tradition? on Tuesday, March 11 at 4 p.m. in Mitchell Hall.
Wolf is a frequent face on MSNBC and CNN, and an opinion contributor in Oprah Daily, Newsweek, USA Today and others. He has graced the cover of Dazed Magazine and LGBTQ publications nationwide, and was named one of Logo TV’s 30 LGBTQ Changemakers, Huffington Post’s 30 LGBTQ Influencers under 30 and Out Magazine’s 100 Most Influential LGBTQ People.
Wolf’s work has made him a respected thought leader on the political intersections of LGBTQ civil rights, racial justice, and gun violence. He was a national surrogate for Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Presidential Campaign and an advisory committee member for President Biden’s General Election bid. In 2019, he became the first survivor of the Pulse tragedy to testify before Congress and returned in 2022 to testify on the rise of anti-LGBTQ hate violence before the House Oversight Committee. Wolf is a co-founder of The Dru Project, a nonprofit organization that empowers safe spaces in schools for LGBTQ youth, and recently served as the Press Secretary for Equality Florida, the state’s LGBTQ civil rights organization. He is currently National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
His memoir, A Place for Us, was released to great acclaim and became an instant bestseller in July 2023.
RELATED EVENT - the Delaware premiere of Surviving Pulse: Life After A Mass Shooting will be held Monday, March 10 at 7 p.m. in Trabant Theater. The award-winning documentary provides additional context about America’s second deadliest mass shooting.
The Ida B. Wells lecture is hosted by the Department of Women and Gender Studies and supported by the College of Arts and Sciences, UD’s Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events (CAPE) and a grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Affirming Multivocal Humanities program.
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