Stonewall Museum
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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…
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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…
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Poetry Is For Queers
The Stonewall National Museum in Wilton Manors, Florida is playing host this coming Sunday March 5th 2017 to a reading by exceptional queer writers. Literary lineup curated by poet Cathleen Chambless, will be showing some of the best of who is living and writing in Miami’s outstanding queer literary scene including Autumn Barksdale, Houston Cypress, May Reign,…
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The Lure of Provincetown : a new Exhibit
South Florida has always been a home from home for many LGBT residents of Provincetown who like to swap the sometimes brutal winters for the sunshine state. Now The Stonewall National Museum & Archives in Wilton Manors has a new exhibition called The Lure of Provincetown that takes a look at the history of why people…
