Last week, the six openly gay U.S. ambassadors posed together before a panel at the Newsm Washgton, D.C. Media outlets proclaimed that there's "no clearer sign of our progrs" rponse, while diplomats like U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.…
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- GAY UPLE TIM AND MCHELL GOLD BEHD EFFORT TO OPEN LGBT MM D.C.
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
GAY UPLE TIM AND MCHELL GOLD BEHD EFFORT TO OPEN LGBT MM D.C.
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And his story is among those that have spired an effort to build a natnal mm Washgton to the history of gay, lbian and transgenr people.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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Organizers, led by former Smhsonian rearcher Tim Gold and his hband, North Carola furnure magnate Mchell Gold, are raisg money and llectg artifacts to open a natnal history mm to tell the stori of LGBT Amerins at a time when gay rights were equently a matter of polil and cultural Gold said he began thkg about the ia while workg as a mm specialist at the Natnal Postal Mm and readg about Jam Smhson, who created the Smhsonian Instutn when he passed his herance to the Uned Stat the 1830s. Gold said he disvered through rearch that Smhson was possibly gay, but his sexualy has rarely been found a charable group, the Velvet Foundatn, 2008 to gather donatns.
He and Mchell, who do philanthropic work on behalf of gay youth and eded a book of g-out stori, have enlisted a lawyer to arrange their fundraisg, a mm sign expert to plan exhibs, and a real tate broker to lote and acquire property need for a 100, 000-square-foot Gold said the ia was for a place that would teach the often-ignored rol that LGBT Amerins have played the untry’s history a way that would reverberate wh visors of all kds. “This isn’t a mm jt for gay people or jt for lbian people or jt for transgenr people, ” he said.
Contributors provid $300, 000 to get the mpaign started and Tim Gold needs $50 ln to $100 ln to open and operate the 40-page strategic plan, tled "Here I Am, " explor stori of gay men and lbians and their search for inty, among them lbian performers at Harlem blu clubs the 1920s, young monstrators om the 1969 Stonewall rts New York and John Fryer, a gay psychiatrist who advoted for homosexualy to be -listed as a mental illns the backg of his wealthy hband, who -found the $100 ln home furnishg pany Mchell Gold + Bob Williams, Tim Gold has been travelg the untry acquirg artifacts om gay rights activists and their fai, often explag his project their livg rooms, then followg them to pick through box their are prott signs om monstratns natnwi. There is a filmstrip of a 1970 gay pri para New York, which Gold serendipoly found buried a se of gay porn ntributed by the Mm of Sex. He said there would be many more if beg gay weren’t nsired taboo by the fai of early activists; once they passed away, many of their fai tossed the artifacts.