Look back anger. That’s how many of the queer muny regard the past. We have been margalized, stutnalized and even extermated certa eras and regim simply bee we were born gay. Why the homo hell would we want to romanticize such treatment?But history is a cul--sac. If we try to outn , we will quickly end up right back where we ’s why we want to pave a path to new vistas of cln, and all roads lead to NYC. The New York Historil Society has announced an excg new iative to expand their exhibn space by over 70,000 square feet. Their new attractn will be the Amerin LGBTQ+ Mm, a reposory for queer exprsn and inty om throughout the centuri.
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GAY GOTHAM
Disver the top 10 LGBTQ mms offerg up gay culture and sight to all thgs queer, wherever you are the world. * gay museum nyc *
Amerin gay liberatn activist Marsha P Johnson (1945 ‑ 1992), wearg headband, and an unintified woman facepat, on 7th Avenue South (between Grove and Christopher streets), attend the send annual Stonewall anniversary march (Gay Liberatn Day), later known as Gay Pri, New York, New York, June 21, 1971.
EXHIB GAY: WELE TO THE AMERIN LGBTQ+ MM
20th December 1989: Portra of Amerin thor, AIDS mpaigner and gay rights activist Larry Kramer, founr of ACT‑UP and the Gay Men's Health Crisis group, posg ont of a book shelf his home, New York Cy. While the ia for the mm had already been perlatg among activists for years before those meetgs started, was the slew of urt s seekg relig exemptns for bs and anizatns that did not want to serve LGBTQ people followg the Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark gay marriage cisn that prompted them to move forward about four years ago, Burns said. The mm will be one of many cultural iativ dited to shg a light on LGBTQ history: Burns poted to the Stonewall Natnal Mm and Archiv Fort Lrdale, Florida, San Francis’s GLBT Historil Society and Berl’s Gay Mm as stutns dog siar work, along wh Manhattan’s LGBT Communy Center Natnal History Archive and the Lbian Herstory Archiv Brooklyn.
In Depth: Panel Discsn on Photography and Homoerotic Dire.
BFA Photography and Vio and the Mm of the Cy of New York prent a panel discsn on how homoerotic photography found s way to New York Cy galleri and mms the 1970s. Listeng to Gay Gotham. Gay Gotham curators Stephen Vir and Donald Albrecht found a unique way to do that by workg wh actors to perform readgs of the works of Richard Bce Nugent and Merces Asta, featured on d statns the exhibn.
LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART
1) Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art New York, NY. Photo via Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art Facebook. The Schwul Mm opened 1985, and was origally loted above a gay nightclub.
5) Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv Toronto, ON, CAN. The Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv (CLGA) llects LGBT historil rerds, personal papers, publitns, art, photographs, posters, and artifacts. Photo via Canadian Lbian & Gay Archiv (CLGA) Facebook.