“After Stonewall” Exhibitions Remind Us That Queer History Shouldn’t Be Straightforward
Stonewall on show at the NYPL, the New York Historical Society, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum
For visitors to these commemorative exhibitions, the broad similarities largely stop there. While all three institutions have chosen the Stonewall riots as the epicenter of their curatorial narratives, their reasons for doing so differ. At the New York Public Library, the riots serve to anchor a larger narrative arc of ...
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