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Stonewall Library & Archives

Fort Lauderdale, Italy

Stonewall National Museum Archives & Library (SNMAL, officially Stonewall Library & Archives Inc.) is the first national LGBTQ+ Museum in the United States. SNMAL is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that promotes understanding through preserving, interpretin

g and sharing the culture of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their role in society. It owns and manages a library and archival collection and presents a series of public programs. SNMAL has two small exhibition areas (Ross Gallery and Hester Gallery) with changing exhibitions drawn primarily from its collections, with notable exceptions organized with partner organizations such as their program presented in partnership with the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, amplifying the oft-erased intersectional Black Queer Civil & LGBTQIA+ Rights Pioneer Bayard Rustin that spotlights the importance of intersectionality intertwined with stories of the civil rights movement in their “Bayard Rustin at the Crossroads” exhibit. Additionally, SNMAL hosts a web-based LGBTQ timeline of American LGBTQ history, launched in 2021 and known as In Plain Sight. Although Stonewall's name...

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