LGBTQ+ History
Explore the diverse pasts that weave our multicultural nation together
Every June in cities across the country, revelers parade through the streets bearing rainbow banners in celebration of LGBTQ+ pride. The conversation that sometimes gets lost amid the festivities, however, is the true reason behind Pride: the commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City's Greenwich Village, a major moment in the gay civil rights movement.
LGBTQ+ (which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) history has many places, events, and people connected to it, yet these sites and voices are not always recognized or preserved. We are striving to weave more of these important threads into our cultural narrative, starting with the stories below.
“All of us who are openly gay are living and writing the history of our movement. We are no more - and no less - heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century.”
Senator Tammy Baldwin
LGBTQ+ Heritage Stories
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Telling the Full American Story Expanding Collective History with the LGBTQ+ Heritage Alliance -
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Refusing Despair: Angela Thorpe Mason on Channeling Pauli Murray -
Historic Sites 5 Things You Might Not Know about the Shadows-on-the-Teche -
Backing Historic Small Restaurants A Couple, A Grant, A Staircase, A Dream -
Telling the Full History Preservation Fund Red Ribbons of Love, 30 Years Later -
National Preservation Awards Reflections on A Legacy of Preservation in North Carolina -
Telling the Full History Preservation Fund Denver's Center on Colfax Boosts the Preservation of Colorado's LGBTQ+ History -
LGBTQ+ History Take a Tour of the Historic Homes of 5 LGBTQ+ Artists
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Places of LGBTQ+ Heritage
We believe all Americans deserve to see their history in the places that surround us. As a nation, we have work to do to fill in the gaps of our cultural heritage.
Let's Get to Work