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Illegal To Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall
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On Thursday, June 11, 2020, the Senator John Heinz History Center, in collaboration with Smithsonian Affiliations and the Smithsonian’s National Museum American History presented a special online lecture- "Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall." The event was a simultaneous broadcast to Smithsonian Affiliate partners across the U.S. In celebration of Pride month, Katherine Ott, curator and historian at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, discussed her work curating "Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall." The exhibition at the National Museum of American History commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising and other pivotal moments in the modern LGBTQ+ civil rights movement. Note: Smithsonian museums in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and in New York City, including the National Zoo are temporarily closed at this time. View the exhibition online- https://americanhistory.si.edu/illegal-to-be-you Smithsonian Pride Alliance: https://www.si.edu/events/pride Links to the Featured Collections of the Senator John Heinz History Center’s Detre Library & Archives: “Troubled with Desire” in 19th Century Pittsburgh: The Journals of Wilson Howell Carpenter https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/view/60500/60401 Guide to the Bet Tikvah Congregation Papers https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-QQS-mss1155 Guide to the Pollock Family Papers https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-QQS-mss1031/viewer Guide to the Mark Pollock Papers https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-QQS-mss526/viewer Links to Additional Archival Collections: One Archives Foundation https://www.onearchives.org Library of Congress LGBTQ Collections https://www.loc.gov/lgbt-pride-month/ Cornell University Human Sexuality Collection https://rare.library.cornell.edu/human-sexuality-collection/ New York Public Library LGBTQ Collections https://www.nypl.org/lgbtq Lavender Legacies Guide: Society of American Archivists, Diverse Sexuality and Gender Section https://www2.archivists.org/groups/diverse-sexuality-and-gender-section/lavender-legacies-guide
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1 hr 17 min 49 sec
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