Tag: Stonewall Museum
Beau McCall and his Curator Souleo talk about REWIND: MEMORIES ON REPEAT a new Exhibit at Stonewall National Museum & Library
\The artist Beau McCall and his Curator Souleo (also his life partner) have a timely and heartfelt exhibition spotlighting the Black LGBTQ+ experience in America and featuring collages by McCall and archival material from the Stonewall National Museum, Library, & Archives (SNMAL). The collages are drawn from McCall’s debut artists’ book, REWIND: MEMORIES ON…
LESBIAN LAND PHOTOGRAPHY Exhibition @ Stonewall National Museum & Archives
THE WOMEN’S FUND PRESENTS IN CELEBRATION OF WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH How Women Shaped a Movement through Photography, Art, Music, and Conversation This exhibition series draws its title from Lesbian Land, a collection of writings by lesbians who founded lands in the 1970s and 1980s’ in an effort to drop out of society and form…
Queer Museums with very Queer Exhibits
Now we can stop pretending…….it really is COLD then this is the perfect time to stick to indoor activities. No better place to start than two Museums that couldn’t be gayer if they tried. First, the long-awaited and highly anticipated brand-new Museum of Broadway which is an interactive and immersive experience that…
SAFE/HAVEN: Gay Life in the 1950’s Cherry Grove
Since the 1940’s Cherry Grove, New York a small village on FIRE ISLAND has been a vacation paradise for the LGBTQ Community. The Cherry Grove Archives Collection a non-profit organisation was established to record the community’s history and is currently presenting an Exhibit SAFE/HAVEN; GAY LIFE IN THE 1950’s at Stonewall National Museum & Archives in Wilton Manors. Queerguru…
Safe/Haven: Gay Life in 1950s Cherry Grove
Thanks to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s ‘Lavender Scare’ culture, the 1950s’ became one of the most homophobic times in American history. McCarthy and his people created a world in which gay people were persecuted and ostracized both at work and at home. After President Eisenhower’ issued an Executive ORder “sexual perversion” it became grounds for the investigation…
