Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall - The Washgton Post

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• ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL
• ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL
• ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL
• ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL
• ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL
• YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO SEE WHAT’S THE SMHSONIAN’S NEW GAY HISTORY DISPLAY
• ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL
• ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALLILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL
• ‘ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL’ EXHIB LOOKS AT THE LGBT STGGLE, AND THE BLSGS AND CURS OF BEG DIFFERENT
• SMHSONIAN'S "ILLEGAL TO BE YOU" EXHIB REVISS 150 YEARS OF QUEER HISTORYTHE SHOW, FEATURED THE NEW DOCUMENTARY "BEYOND STONEWALL," CLUS MEMENTOS OM THE FIRST-EVER PRI {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY CARLA HAYJUNE 24, 2019/7:08 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:2736PX;WIDTH:3648PX;}HIGHLAND PICTURMARK SEGAL "SMHSONIAN TIME CAPSULE: BEYOND STONEWALL."BY CARLA HAYJUNE 24, 2019 / 7:08 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"SMHSONIAN'S \"ILLEGAL TO BE YOU\" EXHIB REVISS 150 YEARS OF QUEER HISTORY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-06-24T23:08:40.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-06-24T23:08:40.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"CARLA HAY","KEYWORDS":"PRI, ART","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON JUNE 21, THE SMHSONIAN INSTUTE’S NATNAL MM OF AMERIN HISTORY WASHGTON, D.C., BUTED S YEARLONG EXHIB "ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL." THE SHOW, WHICH IS PROFILED THE NEW SMHSONIAN CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY SMHSONIAN TIME CAPSULE: BEYOND STONEWALL (PREMIERG JUNE 24 AT 8 P.M. ET), SPANS MORE THAN 150 YEARS OF LGBTQ AMERIN HISTORY, THE EMS ON DISPLAY HOLDG SPECIAL SIGNIFINCE SCE MANY ARTIFACTS OM THAT HISTORY HAVE BEEN LOST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS IS PARTLY BEE LGBTQ PEOPLE “DIDN’T WANT TO BE KNOWN BACK THEN,” SAYS CURATOR KATHERE OTT THE DOCUMENTARY. “PEOPLE OFTEN STROYED RERDS, BURNED PAPERS, LETTERS—ANYTHG THAT REFERENCED A GENR-FLUID INTY. HISTORY AND OBJECTS ARE LIKE UMBILIL RDS. THEY’RE LIKE A SUPERHIGHWAY TO THE PAST… THAT’S WHY YOU NEED TO HAVE PEOPLE SAVE STORI—SO YOU N FD YOURSELF.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GUTS N VIEW RCUED ARTIFACTS LIKE A FIRST EDN OF WALT WHMAN’S LEAV OF GRASS; GAY ACTIVIST JASON COLLS’ BROOKLYN NETS JERSEY TOGRAPHED BY HIS TEAMMAT AFTER HE RETIRED OM BASKETBALL; THE ORIGAL SCRIPT OF THE WILL & GRACE PILOT EPISO; AND PERSONAL EMS OF GENE ROBSON, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP OF THE U.S. EPISPALIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT THERE ARE ALSO TRAGIC REMRS OF THE SUFFERG ENDURED BY MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY. THEY CLU A 1915 BOOKG RD FOR A MAN ARRTED AND SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS PRISON FOR CISG SCRANTON, PENN., WHERE SODOMY WAS A CRIME; AN ELECTROSHOCK MACHE AND LOBOTOMY TOOLS ED TO CURE PATIENTS OF THEIR HOMOSEXUALY; AND A PANEL OM THE AIDS QUILT FOR THE LATE ACTIVIST ROGER LYON, WHO FAMOLY TTIFIED BEFORE CONGRS 1983, SAYG, "I DON'T WANT MY EPAPH TO READ I DIED OF RED TAPE." (LYON PASSED AWAY OM AIDS PLITNS 1984.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE, A LOOK AT SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FEATURED SMHSONIAN TIME CAPSULE: BEYOND STONEWALL:HIGHLAND PICTURA DONATN N AND STICKERED FLYER OM THE FIRST GAY PRI EVENT NEW YORK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE FIRST GAY PRI EVENT NEW YORK CY—LLED THE CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY LIBERATN PRI DAY MARCH AND GAY-IN—TOOK PLACE ON JUNE 28, 1970, WHEN PROTTERS MARCHED UPTOWN OM CHRISTOPHER STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE AND THEN UP SIXTH AVENUE TO CENTRAL PARK. SAYS MARK SEGAL, ONE OF THE EVENT’S ANIZERS WHO DONATED THE EMS, “THAT LTLE STICKER, WHICH WAS THE MOST WE ULD AFFORD TO PROMOTE THAT FIRST GAY PRI 1970, ONE YEAR AFTER STONEWALL, WAS A STATEMENT UNTO SELF.”HIGHLAND PICTURA 1950S PICKET POSTER OM GAY RIGHTS PNEER FRANK KAMENY ED TO ANIZE PROTTS AGAST THE U.S. ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GAY RIGHTS PNEER FRANK KAMENY WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE THE 1950S TO ANIZE PROTTS AGAST THE U.S. ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY LAWS. THIS IS A PICKET POSTER HE ED.HIGHLAND PICTURA MARRIAGE EQUALY POSTER ED BY A PICKETER AT THE U.S. SUPREME {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS MARRIAGE EQUALY POSTER WAS ED BY A PICKETER AT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT.HIGHLAND PICTURBELONGGS OF MATTHEW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BELONGGS OF HATE CRIME VICTIM MATTHEW SHEPARD (WHO WAS KILLED 1998 AT THE AGE OF 21), DONATED BY HIS PARENTS, DENNIS AND JUDY SHEPARD.HIGHLAND PICTURLOBOTOMY ICE PICKS ED BY LOBOTOMY SPECIALIST DR. WALTER FREEMAN II TO PERFORM LOBOTOMI ON HOMOSEXUALS THE MID-20TH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LOBOTOMY ICE PICKS WERE ED BY LOBOTOMY SPECIALIST DR. WALTER FREEMAN II TO PERFORM LOBOTOMI ON HOMOSEXUALS THE MID-20TH CENTURY. OTT SAYS OF THIS BARBARIC TORTURE: “FREEMAN’S TECHNIQUE WAS TO GO BEHD THE EYE THROUGH THE EYE SOCKET AND WIGGLE TO DISNNECT THE ONTAL LOBE OM THE RT OF THE BRA.” THE DOCUMENTARY NOT THAT ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF THE LOBOTOMI FREEMAN PERFORMED WERE ON HOMOSEXUALS.HIGHLAND PICTURAN ELECTROSHOCK MACHE ED NVERSN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS ELECTROSHOCK MACHE WAS ED NVERSN THERAPY AT A TIME WHEN THERE WERE “ENOUGH MEDIL PHYSICIANS WHO THOUGHT THAT BEG GAY WAS A MEDIL NDN THAT ULD BE CURED,” SAYS OTT. “THEY ED ELECTRO-NVULSIVE SHOCK TREATMENT TO REWIRE THE BRA OR SHORT-CIRCU THE BRA.”HIGHLAND PICTUR“PHILIP ST. GEE LETTERS” WERE LOVE LETTERS WRTEN BETWEEN MEN DURG WORLD WAR II. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE LETTERS WERE LOVE LETTERS WRTEN BY CLOSETED MALE SERVICE MEMBERS DURG WORLD WAR II. “THEY TALK ABOUT HOW THEY’RE FEELG WHEN MEN AT THAT TIME WERE NOT ALLOWED TO DO OPENLY, AND CERTALY [NOT] IF YOU WERE THE ARY,” SAYS NATNAL MM OF AMERIN HISTORY SENR ARCHIVIST FRANK ROBSON. DPE THE OPPRSIVE ERA, THE ARY DURG WORLD WAR II WAS MORE LIBERATG FOR GAY PEOPLE THAN PREV ERAS BEE “ SOWED THE SEEDS OF HOW WE N GET TOGETHER AND… SEE HOW WE N ACTUALLY CHANGE SOCIETY,” ROBSON SAYS THE DOCUMENTARY.HIGHLAND PICTURTHIS NAZI ARM BAND ED TO TEGORIZE A HOMOSEXUAL JEW DURG WORLD WAR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS NAZI ARM BAND WAS ED TO TEGORIZE A HOMOSEXUAL JEW DURG WORLD WAR II.HIGHLAND PICTURA BT STATUE OF 19TH-CENTURY LBIAN ACTRS CHARLOTTE CHMAN CREATED BY HER PARTNER EMMA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS BT STATUE OF 19TH-CENTURY LBIAN ACTRS CHARLOTTE CHMAN WAS CREATED BY HER PARTNER EMMA STEBBS. CHMAN PLAYED MALE AND FEMALE ROL THROUGHOUT HER REER.HIGHLAND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE OF CHMAN’S MALE ROL THAT HELPED MAKE HER A STAR WAS AS ROMEO SHAKPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET. HER YOUNGER SISTER SAN HAD THE ROLE OF JULIET. THIS STATUETTE MEMORAT THEIR ROL THE PLAY.HIGHLAND PICTURCHARLOTTE CHMAN'S GENR-BENDG STUME WHEN SHE PLAYED CARDAL WOLSEY SHAKPEARE’S "HENRY VIII."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1857, CHMAN WORE THIS GENR-BENDG STUME WHEN SHE PLAYED CARDAL WOLSEY SHAKPEARE’S HENRY VIII. WHEN FEMALE ACTORS PLAYED MEN THOSE DAYS, THEY OFTEN WORE STUM THAT EXPOSED THEIR LEGS, WHICH WAS NSIRED RISQUé FOR WOMEN AT THE TIME, BUT LET THE DIENCE KNOW THAT THE ACTOR WAS A FEMALE. WH THE CARDAL WOLSEY STUME, CHMAN BUCKED TRADN, WEARG WHAT A MALE ACTOR WOULD WEAR. AS NATNAL MM OF AMERIN HISTORY CURATOR KENH COHEN SAYS THE DOCUMENTARY, “CHMAN HAD THE STUME SIGNED TO -EMPHASIZE HER BODY. SHE ALSO HAD THE ROBE CUT VERY LOOSELY, SO -ACCENTUAT HER BT.”HIGHLAND PICTURZUNI INDIAN GUTS OCTAVI SEOWTEWA AND CURTIS QUAM STAND NEXT TO A LOOM DONATED TO THE SMHSONIAN 1886 BY ZUNI ARTIST WE’WHA, A TRANSGENR WOMAN KNOWN FOR HER WEAVG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ZUNI INDIAN GUTS OCTAVI SEOWTEWA AND CURTIS QUAM STAND NEXT TO A LOOM DONATED TO THE SMHSONIAN 1886 BY ZUNI ARTIST WE’WHA, A TRANSGENR WOMAN KNOWN FOR HER WEAVG SKILLS. WE’WHA WAS VED TO WASHGTON, D.C., BY SMHSONIAN ETHNOLOGIST MATILDA STEVENSON. NATNAL MM OF AMERIN HISTORY CURATOR GWYNEIRA ISAAC SAYS THE DOCUMENTARY THAT STEVENSON, WHO WAS IALLY UNAWARE THAT WE’WHA WAS TRANSGENR, TRODUCED HER AS A PRITS WHO ULD PERFORM NATIVE AMERIN CEREMONI. “WASHGTON SOCIETY ACCEPTED [WE’WHA] AS A WOMAN,” ISSAC SAYS. “THERE WAS NO NCEPT OF ‘TRANSGENR.’” A BLOGIL MALE WH FEMALE CHARACTERISTICS IS NSIRED NATURAL ZUNI CULTURE, SAYS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL
• ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL
• ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL

ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL

ViosThe followg clips are om the Smhsonian Channel program Smhsonian Time Capsule: Beyond Stonewall:“The Day the Stonewall Rts Shook Ameri”Watch on YouTube“This Man Beme the First Openly Gay Bishop Ameri”Watch on YouTube.

ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL

Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall.

Illegal to Be You on display at the mmThere is no unified gay history Ameri and no one way to be gay. The only thg that all gay people have shared across time are the risks and rewards beg themselv.

Gay history is faiar, surprisg, heartbreakg, empowerg, and fabulo—all at the same time. Collectn n om Christopher Street Liberatn Day march, the first pri para, 1970Mark Segal ma this DIY llectn n as a of Mark SegalButtons, 1970 Christopher Street MarchChristopher Street, the lotn of The Stonewall Inn, ran through the heart of New York Cy’s gay of Mark Segal.

ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL

The mm marks this 50th anniversary wh a display featurg objects om s llectns that put the history of that memorable event wh a larger and longer experience of beg gay.

Ott will discs her work curatg Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall, an exhibn currently on view at the Natnal Mm of Amerin History that memorat the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg and other pivotal moments the morn LGBTQ+ civil rights movement. Illegal To Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall.

On Thursday, June 11, 2020, the Senator John Hez History Center, llaboratn wh Smhsonian Affiliatns and the Smhsonian’s Natnal Mm Amerin History prented a special onle lecture- "Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall. In celebratn of Pri month, Kathere Ott, curator and historian at the Smhsonian’s Natnal Mm of Amerin History, discsed her work curatg "Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall. The mm is ntually addg to and mg our existg rourc orr to better unrstand evolvg and overlappg inti such as lbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgenr, queer, transsexual, transvte, mahu, homosexual, fluid, vert, urng, third sex, two sex, genr-benr, sapphist, hijra, iend of Dorothy, drag queen/kg, and many other rourc gathered on this page offer a path to the mm’s efforts fdg that past and makg sense of .

ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL

Openly gay characters mastream ics began to appear the late 1980s. The Gay Comics are om the early 1990s.

This Smhsonian Channel productn reviss the historic moment that began a movement and explor objects om the Smhsonian that tell stori of the gay experience Ameri. (March 13, 2018)Natnal Mm of Amerin History Acquir Archival Collectn Related to LGBT Conversn Therapy (October 16, 2017)Natnal Mm of Amerin History Collects History Related to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr History (Augt 19, 2014).

ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL

By the dialogue I enuntered a December 1960 issue of ONE: The Homosexual Viewpot, tled “Homosexual, Servant of God, ” which actively and openly discsed rencilg sexualy and Christian relig inty ne years before the famo Stonewall uprisg New York Cy.

In a mm known for displayg the mure drs of first ladi, there’s a provotive new outf on view: a skimpy chrome and bber S&M harns that was worn by a gay activist at several recent San Francis Pri march.

YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO SEE WHAT’S THE SMHSONIAN’S NEW GAY HISTORY DISPLAY

You n fd a display se on the send floor of the Natnal Mm of Amerin History as part of a new mi-exhib, “Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall, ” that opens Friday and will be on view for about a year. “The only thg gay people, queer people share throughout history is the risk they take beg themselv. Perhaps the most movg artifacts the exhib belonged to the late Matthew Shepard, who beme a natnal symbol of vlence agast gays when he was btally beaten and left to die at the age of 21 1998.

ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL

Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall. Ott will discs her work curatg Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall, an exhibn currently at the Natnal Mm of Amerin History that memorat the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg and other pivotal moments the morn LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.

Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall (The J. Rourc:: Illegal To Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall | Smhsonian Learng Lab.

Debug Sre BreakDown for Illegal To Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall. “Illegal To Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall” opens June 21 on the mm’s send floor and will be on view through sprg display will exame the plexi of LGBTQ+ history rooted the Stonewall uprisg that reach beyond that memorable June 1969, members of the LGBTQ+ muny spontaneoly risted a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay club loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village.

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The uprisg lasted six days, makg this moment one of the most famo gay history and sparkg a larger nversatn about the nsequenc, risks and rewards of beg different. “There is no one, unified gay history; what all gay people have shared across time is the stggle for the right to be themselv and the mm has been documentg the stori for s, ” said Kathere Ott, curator at the mm.

“Today, gay Amerins have achieved so much, yet many people are unaware of how happened. Objects the llectns clu a selectn of prott signs om gay civil rights activist Frank Kameny, Billie Jean Kg’s tennis drs, the first transgenr pri flag and HIV and AIDS-related lab equipment and meditns.

‘ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL’ EXHIB LOOKS AT THE LGBT STGGLE, AND THE BLSGS AND CURS OF BEG DIFFERENT

RAGE Night Club - Wt HollywoodBy the 1950s an anized, dispersed gay rights movement existed.

Gay people were harassed, arrted, or beaten, so they gathered hom, bathho, and bars, or met each other mastream social groups, church, and classrooms.

SMHSONIAN'S "ILLEGAL TO BE YOU" EXHIB REVISS 150 YEARS OF QUEER HISTORYTHE SHOW, FEATURED THE NEW DOCUMENTARY "BEYOND STONEWALL," CLUS MEMENTOS OM THE FIRST-EVER PRI {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY CARLA HAYJUNE 24, 2019/7:08 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:2736PX;WIDTH:3648PX;}HIGHLAND PICTURMARK SEGAL "SMHSONIAN TIME CAPSULE: BEYOND STONEWALL."BY CARLA HAYJUNE 24, 2019 / 7:08 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"SMHSONIAN'S \"ILLEGAL TO BE YOU\" EXHIB REVISS 150 YEARS OF QUEER HISTORY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-06-24T23:08:40.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-06-24T23:08:40.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"CARLA HAY","KEYWORDS":"PRI, ART","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON JUNE 21, THE SMHSONIAN INSTUTE’S NATNAL MM OF AMERIN HISTORY WASHGTON, D.C., BUTED S YEARLONG EXHIB "ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL." THE SHOW, WHICH IS PROFILED THE NEW SMHSONIAN CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY SMHSONIAN TIME CAPSULE: BEYOND STONEWALL (PREMIERG JUNE 24 AT 8 P.M. ET), SPANS MORE THAN 150 YEARS OF LGBTQ AMERIN HISTORY, THE EMS ON DISPLAY HOLDG SPECIAL SIGNIFINCE SCE MANY ARTIFACTS OM THAT HISTORY HAVE BEEN LOST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS IS PARTLY BEE LGBTQ PEOPLE “DIDN’T WANT TO BE KNOWN BACK THEN,” SAYS CURATOR KATHERE OTT THE DOCUMENTARY. “PEOPLE OFTEN STROYED RERDS, BURNED PAPERS, LETTERS—ANYTHG THAT REFERENCED A GENR-FLUID INTY. HISTORY AND OBJECTS ARE LIKE UMBILIL RDS. THEY’RE LIKE A SUPERHIGHWAY TO THE PAST… THAT’S WHY YOU NEED TO HAVE PEOPLE SAVE STORI—SO YOU N FD YOURSELF.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GUTS N VIEW RCUED ARTIFACTS LIKE A FIRST EDN OF WALT WHMAN’S LEAV OF GRASS; GAY ACTIVIST JASON COLLS’ BROOKLYN NETS JERSEY TOGRAPHED BY HIS TEAMMAT AFTER HE RETIRED OM BASKETBALL; THE ORIGAL SCRIPT OF THE WILL & GRACE PILOT EPISO; AND PERSONAL EMS OF GENE ROBSON, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP OF THE U.S. EPISPALIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT THERE ARE ALSO TRAGIC REMRS OF THE SUFFERG ENDURED BY MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY. THEY CLU A 1915 BOOKG RD FOR A MAN ARRTED AND SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS PRISON FOR CISG SCRANTON, PENN., WHERE SODOMY WAS A CRIME; AN ELECTROSHOCK MACHE AND LOBOTOMY TOOLS ED TO CURE PATIENTS OF THEIR HOMOSEXUALY; AND A PANEL OM THE AIDS QUILT FOR THE LATE ACTIVIST ROGER LYON, WHO FAMOLY TTIFIED BEFORE CONGRS 1983, SAYG, "I DON'T WANT MY EPAPH TO READ I DIED OF RED TAPE." (LYON PASSED AWAY OM AIDS PLITNS 1984.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE, A LOOK AT SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FEATURED SMHSONIAN TIME CAPSULE: BEYOND STONEWALL:HIGHLAND PICTURA DONATN N AND STICKERED FLYER OM THE FIRST GAY PRI EVENT NEW YORK {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE FIRST GAY PRI EVENT NEW YORK CY—LLED THE CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY LIBERATN PRI DAY MARCH AND GAY-IN—TOOK PLACE ON JUNE 28, 1970, WHEN PROTTERS MARCHED UPTOWN OM CHRISTOPHER STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE AND THEN UP SIXTH AVENUE TO CENTRAL PARK. SAYS MARK SEGAL, ONE OF THE EVENT’S ANIZERS WHO DONATED THE EMS, “THAT LTLE STICKER, WHICH WAS THE MOST WE ULD AFFORD TO PROMOTE THAT FIRST GAY PRI 1970, ONE YEAR AFTER STONEWALL, WAS A STATEMENT UNTO SELF.”HIGHLAND PICTURA 1950S PICKET POSTER OM GAY RIGHTS PNEER FRANK KAMENY ED TO ANIZE PROTTS AGAST THE U.S. ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GAY RIGHTS PNEER FRANK KAMENY WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE THE 1950S TO ANIZE PROTTS AGAST THE U.S. ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY LAWS. THIS IS A PICKET POSTER HE ED.HIGHLAND PICTURA MARRIAGE EQUALY POSTER ED BY A PICKETER AT THE U.S. SUPREME {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS MARRIAGE EQUALY POSTER WAS ED BY A PICKETER AT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT.HIGHLAND PICTURBELONGGS OF MATTHEW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BELONGGS OF HATE CRIME VICTIM MATTHEW SHEPARD (WHO WAS KILLED 1998 AT THE AGE OF 21), DONATED BY HIS PARENTS, DENNIS AND JUDY SHEPARD.HIGHLAND PICTURLOBOTOMY ICE PICKS ED BY LOBOTOMY SPECIALIST DR. WALTER FREEMAN II TO PERFORM LOBOTOMI ON HOMOSEXUALS THE MID-20TH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LOBOTOMY ICE PICKS WERE ED BY LOBOTOMY SPECIALIST DR. WALTER FREEMAN II TO PERFORM LOBOTOMI ON HOMOSEXUALS THE MID-20TH CENTURY. OTT SAYS OF THIS BARBARIC TORTURE: “FREEMAN’S TECHNIQUE WAS TO GO BEHD THE EYE THROUGH THE EYE SOCKET AND WIGGLE TO DISNNECT THE ONTAL LOBE OM THE RT OF THE BRA.” THE DOCUMENTARY NOT THAT ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF THE LOBOTOMI FREEMAN PERFORMED WERE ON HOMOSEXUALS.HIGHLAND PICTURAN ELECTROSHOCK MACHE ED NVERSN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS ELECTROSHOCK MACHE WAS ED NVERSN THERAPY AT A TIME WHEN THERE WERE “ENOUGH MEDIL PHYSICIANS WHO THOUGHT THAT BEG GAY WAS A MEDIL NDN THAT ULD BE CURED,” SAYS OTT. “THEY ED ELECTRO-NVULSIVE SHOCK TREATMENT TO REWIRE THE BRA OR SHORT-CIRCU THE BRA.”HIGHLAND PICTUR“PHILIP ST. GEE LETTERS” WERE LOVE LETTERS WRTEN BETWEEN MEN DURG WORLD WAR II. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE LETTERS WERE LOVE LETTERS WRTEN BY CLOSETED MALE SERVICE MEMBERS DURG WORLD WAR II. “THEY TALK ABOUT HOW THEY’RE FEELG WHEN MEN AT THAT TIME WERE NOT ALLOWED TO DO OPENLY, AND CERTALY [NOT] IF YOU WERE THE ARY,” SAYS NATNAL MM OF AMERIN HISTORY SENR ARCHIVIST FRANK ROBSON. DPE THE OPPRSIVE ERA, THE ARY DURG WORLD WAR II WAS MORE LIBERATG FOR GAY PEOPLE THAN PREV ERAS BEE “ SOWED THE SEEDS OF HOW WE N GET TOGETHER AND… SEE HOW WE N ACTUALLY CHANGE SOCIETY,” ROBSON SAYS THE DOCUMENTARY.HIGHLAND PICTURTHIS NAZI ARM BAND ED TO TEGORIZE A HOMOSEXUAL JEW DURG WORLD WAR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS NAZI ARM BAND WAS ED TO TEGORIZE A HOMOSEXUAL JEW DURG WORLD WAR II.HIGHLAND PICTURA BT STATUE OF 19TH-CENTURY LBIAN ACTRS CHARLOTTE CHMAN CREATED BY HER PARTNER EMMA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS BT STATUE OF 19TH-CENTURY LBIAN ACTRS CHARLOTTE CHMAN WAS CREATED BY HER PARTNER EMMA STEBBS. CHMAN PLAYED MALE AND FEMALE ROL THROUGHOUT HER REER.HIGHLAND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE OF CHMAN’S MALE ROL THAT HELPED MAKE HER A STAR WAS AS ROMEO SHAKPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET. HER YOUNGER SISTER SAN HAD THE ROLE OF JULIET. THIS STATUETTE MEMORAT THEIR ROL THE PLAY.HIGHLAND PICTURCHARLOTTE CHMAN'S GENR-BENDG STUME WHEN SHE PLAYED CARDAL WOLSEY SHAKPEARE’S "HENRY VIII."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1857, CHMAN WORE THIS GENR-BENDG STUME WHEN SHE PLAYED CARDAL WOLSEY SHAKPEARE’S HENRY VIII. WHEN FEMALE ACTORS PLAYED MEN THOSE DAYS, THEY OFTEN WORE STUM THAT EXPOSED THEIR LEGS, WHICH WAS NSIRED RISQUé FOR WOMEN AT THE TIME, BUT LET THE DIENCE KNOW THAT THE ACTOR WAS A FEMALE. WH THE CARDAL WOLSEY STUME, CHMAN BUCKED TRADN, WEARG WHAT A MALE ACTOR WOULD WEAR. AS NATNAL MM OF AMERIN HISTORY CURATOR KENH COHEN SAYS THE DOCUMENTARY, “CHMAN HAD THE STUME SIGNED TO -EMPHASIZE HER BODY. SHE ALSO HAD THE ROBE CUT VERY LOOSELY, SO -ACCENTUAT HER BT.”HIGHLAND PICTURZUNI INDIAN GUTS OCTAVI SEOWTEWA AND CURTIS QUAM STAND NEXT TO A LOOM DONATED TO THE SMHSONIAN 1886 BY ZUNI ARTIST WE’WHA, A TRANSGENR WOMAN KNOWN FOR HER WEAVG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ZUNI INDIAN GUTS OCTAVI SEOWTEWA AND CURTIS QUAM STAND NEXT TO A LOOM DONATED TO THE SMHSONIAN 1886 BY ZUNI ARTIST WE’WHA, A TRANSGENR WOMAN KNOWN FOR HER WEAVG SKILLS. WE’WHA WAS VED TO WASHGTON, D.C., BY SMHSONIAN ETHNOLOGIST MATILDA STEVENSON. NATNAL MM OF AMERIN HISTORY CURATOR GWYNEIRA ISAAC SAYS THE DOCUMENTARY THAT STEVENSON, WHO WAS IALLY UNAWARE THAT WE’WHA WAS TRANSGENR, TRODUCED HER AS A PRITS WHO ULD PERFORM NATIVE AMERIN CEREMONI. “WASHGTON SOCIETY ACCEPTED [WE’WHA] AS A WOMAN,” ISSAC SAYS. “THERE WAS NO NCEPT OF ‘TRANSGENR.’” A BLOGIL MALE WH FEMALE CHARACTERISTICS IS NSIRED NATURAL ZUNI CULTURE, SAYS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Matchbook vers om Los Angel gay bars Blanche’s, Boots, The Flame, Gold Coast, and Woody’s, 1990s–2010 In LA, Heart, a new gay club, will replace Rage. “Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall, ” a miexhib that opened at the mm Washgton on Friday, tak a wir view of the stggle for LGBT rights, gog beyond the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village.

They clu prott signs om gay civil rights activist Frank Kameny, Billie Jean Kg’s tennis drs, the first transgenr pri flag and HIV- and AIDS-related lab equipment and mentary om Matthew Shepard’s childhood Superman pe. Shepard was a gay stunt at the Universy of Wyomg 1998 when he was beaten, tortured and left to die. And there’s a sticker of Ana Bryant’s “Save Our Children Project, ” which is thought to be the first anized opposn to the gay rights ems reflect the humor, mp and gay irony that helped the muny weather hard tim, such as Brian Boano’s Olympic skatg stume, and one that had been on Ott’s curatorial wish list forever.

ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL

C., buted s yearlong exhib "Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall.

”Guts n view rcued artifacts like a first edn of Walt Whman’s Leav of Grass; gay activist Jason Colls’ Brooklyn Nets jersey tographed by his teammat after he retired om basketball; the origal script of the Will & Grace pilot episo; and personal ems of Gene Robson, the first openly gay bishop of the U. They clu a 1915 bookg rd for a man arrted and sentenced to three years prison for cisg Scranton, Penn., where sodomy was a crime; an electroshock mache and lobotomy tools ed to cure patients of their homosexualy; and a panel om the AIDS quilt for the late activist Roger Lyon, who famoly ttified before Congrs 1983, sayg, "I don't want my epaph to read I died of red tape. )Here, a look at some of the highlights featured Smhsonian Time Capsule: Beyond Stonewall:The first Gay Pri event New York Cy—lled the Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Pri Day March and Gay-In—took place on June 28, 1970, when protters marched uptown om Christopher Street Greenwich Village and then up Sixth Avenue to Central Park.

ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL

Says Mark Segal, one of the event’s anizers who donated the ems, “That ltle sticker, which was the most we uld afford to promote that first Gay Pri 1970, one year after Stonewall, was a statement unto self. ”Gay rights pneer Frank Kameny was one of the first people the 1950s to anize protts agast the U. Ernment’s anti-gay laws.

Walter Freeman II to perform lobotomi on homosexuals the mid-20th century. ” The documentary not that about 40 percent of the lobotomi Freeman performed were on electroshock mache was ed nversn therapy at a time when there were “enough medil physicians who thought that beg gay was a medil ndn that uld be cured, ” says Ott.

Dpe the opprsive era, the ary durg World War II was more liberatg for gay people than prev eras bee “ sowed the seeds of how we n get together and… see how we n actually change society, ” Robson says the Nazi arm band was ed to tegorize a homosexual Jew durg World War bt statue of 19th-century lbian actrs Charlotte Chman was created by her partner Emma Stebbs. The mm marked this 50th anniversary wh a display featurg objects om s llectns that put the history of that memorable event wh a larger and longer experience of beg gay. Now that the Stonewall Inn is the Uned Stat' first natnal monument to LGBT rights, we look at how the muny fought agast raids, harassment, and discrimatory June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, attackg s gay and transgenr ctomers (a mon practice at the time).

ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL

A symbol of LGBT ristance to homophobic vlence, Stonewall was one of the plac where people gathered to hold vigils after the Orlando shootg.

”)The bar is an important landmark, but wasn’t the only place where LGBT people fought for equaly, nor the first time homophobia was challenged. S that tell of the stggle for LGBT Henry Gerber HoeIn 1923, German immigrant Henry Gerber found what is nsired the first gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat—the Society for Human Rights.

The small group was loted Chigo, where distributed a publitn for gay people lled Friendship and broke up the society after only eight months.