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Queer legislators introduce bill to create national LGBTQ+ history museum
“As our community faces unprecedented attacks and attempts to erase our history, we must preserve and protect our stories for future generations.”
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LGBTQ+ museum attacked, damaged by gunfire
The overnight strike on the collection coincides with a rise of anti-LGBTQ+ violence and hate speech.
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Children’s museum receives death threats because drag queens were planning to read there
The event was private and after hours but “overwhelming” threats of violence to the museum forced the event to be postponed anyway.
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London is planning the world’s largest LGBTQ museum
A huge museum dedicated to our history could open its door as soon as 2021.
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German museum launches exhibit documenting 150 years of gay history
The exhibit traces 150 years of gay history in the country, including the first uses of the term “homosexual,” the brutal Nazi-era repression of gays and gradual moves toward legal equality starting in the 1960s.
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Laverne Cox cast as wax museum’s first transgender figure
Merlin Entertainment spokeswoman Kari Martin says a life-sized likeness of the “Orange is the New Black” co-star is scheduled to be unveiled at the Madame Tussauds’ in San Francisco on June 26.
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Gay artifacts subject of new museum collection in Missouri
ST. LOUIS — The Missouri History Museum is on the verge of the St. Louis region’s first mainstream collection of gay artifacts.
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San Francisco’s Castro district home to nation’s first LGBT history museum
The nation’s first ever museum devoted to LGBT history, opened in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood today, showcasing archives that reflect nearly a century of gay culture and LGBT life.