The museum is expanding and will incorporate the American LGBTQ+ Museum. Leaders say it is the first in the city dedicated to global, national and local LGBTQ history and culture.
Leaders say it is the first in the city dedicated to global, national and local LGBTQ history and culture. Crystal Cranmore has the story."We had done several exhibitions that really touched on the history of the American LGBTQ+ community," an official said. "But we had never really had the opportunity to delve deeply into that history."The Historical Society is expanding and will incorporate the brand new American LGBTQ+ Museum.
Leaders say it is the first in the city dedicated to global, national and local LGBTQIA+ history and culture."One of the things about LGBTQ history that has made it secondary in the broader scope of history interpretation is that so many people at the end of their lives had the records of their queerness destroyed my family members, my loved ones sometimes by themselves, because of the stigma and the shame," and official said.
Stories like that of Edie Windsor, an activist whose landmark case led the Supreme Court to grant same-sex married couples federal recognition for the first time - along with access to many federal benefits.For the first time, it will have its own home on what had been a vacant lot at 77th Street and Central Park West on Manhattan's Upper West Side."We were always looking for the right idea," and official said.
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