Wdy Cy Tim News - WASHINGTON In March 2019, the Newsm will open Rise Up: Stonewall and the Gay Rights Movement, an exhib that explor the morn gay rights movement the Uned Stat. The exhib marks the 50th anniversary
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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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On 8 March, Newsm will open “Rise Up: Stonewall & the LGBTQ Rights Movement, ” an exhib that will explore the morn gay rights movement the US.
's speech and drilled police officers on techniqu of nonvlent crowd was also gay. 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. 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.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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.… * newseum lgbt *
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.