New York’s oldest museum will soon expand to incorporate a museum dedicated to LGBTQ history.
digital programs — and will be New York City’s first museum dedicated to global, national and local LGBTQ history and culture. Museum leaders hope to begin staging physical exhibitions next year, in partnership with the Historical Society and other cultural institutions throughout the city, according to Richard Burns, The American LGBTQ+ Museum’s board chair.
Burns, a longtime executive in nonprofit groups who led Manhattan’s LGBTQ Community Center for two decades, and a group of fellow queer advocates began meeting “in people’s living rooms” in early 2017, he said, to begin thinking about how to make their dream of an LGBTQ museum a reality.
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