In 1995, controversy arose over the exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum with the display of the "Enola Gay", the Superfortress used by the United States to drop the first atomic bomb used in World War II. The American Legion and Air Force Association believed the exhibit put forward only one side of the debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that it emphasized the effect on victims without discussing its use within the overall context of the war. The Smithsonian changed the exhibit, displaying the aircraft only with associated technical data and without discussion of its historic role in the war.
"Enola Gay" display
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution | "Enola Gay" display
The magazine changed the exhibit, displaying the aircraft only with associated technical data. The display of the "Enola Gay", the Superfortress used by the United States to drop the first atomic bomb used in World War II. The American Legion and Air Force Association believed the exhibit put forward only one side of the debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that it emphasized the effect on victims without discussing its use within the overall context of the war. The American Legion and Air Force Association believed the exhibit put forward only one side of the debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that it emphasized the effect on victims without discussing its use within the overall context of the war.
who was adam eckfeldt?
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John Adam Eckfeldt was a worker and official of the United States Mint.
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when did he start designing coins?
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1793
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1792 half disme
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He put aside interesting foreign coins sent to the mint as bullion. These pieces became the Mint's Cabinet, or coin collection.
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Smithsonian Institution
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August 10, 1846
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how many of these museums are there?
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Nineteen
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"Smithsonian" magazine.
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S. Dillon Ripley
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In 1995, controversy arose over the exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum with the display of the "Enola Gay", the Superfortress used by the United States to drop the first atomic bomb used in World War II. The American Legion and Air Force Association believed the exhibit put forward only one side of the debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that it emphasized the effect on victims without discussing its use within the overall context of the war. The Smithsonian changed the exhibit, displaying the aircraft only with associated technical data and without discussion of its historic role in the war.
Smithsonian Institution | "Enola Gay" display
"Enola Gay" became the center of a controversy at the Smithsonian Institution when the museum planned to put its fuselage on public display in 1995 as part of an exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The exhibit, "The Crossroads: The End of World War II, the Atomic Bomb and the Cold War," was drafted by the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum staff, and arranged around the restored "Enola Gay". Critics of the planned exhibit, especially those of the American Legion and the Air Force Association, charged that the exhibit focused too much attention on the Japanese casualties inflicted by the nuclear bomb, rather than on the motives for the bombing or the discussion of the bomb's role in ending the conflict with Japan.
Enola Gay | Exhibition controversy
It was hoped that the Air Force would guard the plane, but, lacking hangar space, it was left outdoors on a remote part of the air base, exposed to the elements. Souvenir hunters broke in and removed parts. Insects and birds then gained access to the aircraft. Paul E. Garber of the Smithsonian Institution, became concerned about the "Enola Gay"s condition, and on 10 August 1960, Smithsonian staff began dismantling the aircraft. The components were transported to the Smithsonian storage facility at Suitland, Maryland, on 21 July 1961.
Enola Gay | Subsequent history
In June 2004, the crew of the Enola Gay, including Paul Tibbets, Morris Jeppson, and Theodore Van Kirk, visited the museum and donated objects to it.
NMI Museum of History and Culture | History
After the war, the "Enola Gay" returned to the United States, where it was operated from Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico. In May 1946, it was flown to Kwajalein for the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in the Pacific, but was not chosen to make the test drop at Bikini Atoll. Later that year it was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, and spent many years parked at air bases exposed to the weather and souvenir hunters, before being disassembled and transported to the Smithsonian's storage facility at Suitland, Maryland, in 1961. In the 1980s, veterans groups engaged in a call for the Smithsonian to put the aircraft on display, leading to an acrimonious debate about exhibiting the aircraft without a proper historical context.
Enola Gay | Introduction
The exhibition closed on 18 May 1998 and the fuselage was returned to the Garber Facility for final restoration.
Enola Gay | Exhibition controversy
It read: The display of the "Enola Gay" without reference to the historical context of World War II, the Cold War, or the development and deployment of nuclear weapons aroused controversy. A petition from a group calling themselves the Committee for a National Discussion of Nuclear History and Current Policy bemoaned the display of "Enola Gay" as a technological achievement, which it described as an "extraordinary callousness toward the victims, indifference to the deep divisions among American citizens about the propriety of these actions, and disregard for the feelings of most of the world's peoples". It attracted signatures from notable figures including historian Gar Alperovitz, social critic Noam Chomsky, whistle blower Daniel Ellsberg, physicist Joseph Rotblat, writer Kurt Vonnegut, producer Norman Lear, actor Martin Sheen and filmmaker Oliver Stone.
Enola Gay | Complete restoration and display
On 30 August 1946, the title to the aircraft was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution and the "Enola Gay" was removed from the USAAF inventory. From 1946 to 1961, the "Enola Gay" was put into temporary storage at a number of locations. It was at Davis-Monthan from 1 September 1946 until 3 July 1949, when it was flown to Orchard Place Air Field, Park Ridge, Illinois, by Tibbets for acceptance by the Smithsonian. It was moved to Pyote Air Force Base, Texas, on 12 January 1952, and then to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on 2 December 1953, because the Smithsonian had no storage space for the aircraft.
Enola Gay | Subsequent history
The exhibit brought to national attention many long-standing academic and political issues related to retrospective views of the bombings. After attempts to revise the exhibit to meet the satisfaction of competing interest groups, the exhibit was canceled on 30 January 1995. Martin O. Harwit, Director of the National Air and Space Museum, was compelled to resign over the controversy. He later reflected that The forward fuselage went on display on 28 June 1995. On 2 July 1995, three people were arrested for throwing ash and human blood on the aircraft's fuselage, following an earlier incident in which a protester had thrown red paint over the gallery's carpeting.
Enola Gay | Exhibition controversy
The cockpit and nose section of the aircraft were exhibited at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) on the National Mall, for the bombing's 50th anniversary in 1995, amid controversy. Since 2003, the entire restored B-29 has been on display at NASM's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The last survivor of its crew, Theodore Van Kirk, died on 28 July 2014 at the age of 93.
Enola Gay | Introduction
Restoration work began in 1984, and would eventually require 300,000 staff hours. While the fuselage was on display, from 1995 to 1998, work continued on the remaining unrestored components. The aircraft was shipped in pieces to the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia from March–June 2003, with the fuselage and wings reunited for the first time since 1960 on 10 April 2003 and assembly completed on 8 August 2003. The aircraft has been on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center since the museum annex opened on 15 December 2003. As a result of the earlier controversy, the signage around the aircraft provided only the same succinct technical data as is provided for other aircraft in the museum, without discussion of the controversial issues.
Enola Gay | Complete restoration and display
(now Horton Gallery) in New York City in 2007, and "Cousins, Quarries and a Nickelodeon" at the Luise Ross Gallery, New York in 2013.
Gayleen Aiken | Collections and exhibits
"The camera is my weapon against the things I dislike about the universe and how I show the beautiful things about the universe," Parks recalled in 2000. "I didn't care about Life magazine. I cared about the people," he said. The June 1964 Paul Welch "Life" article entitled "Homosexuality In America" was the first time a national publication reported on gay issues. "Life" 's photographer was referred to the gay leather bar in San Francisco called the Tool Box for the article by Hal Call, who had long worked to dispel the myth that all homosexual men were effeminate. The article opened with a two-page spread of the mural of life size leathermen in the bar, which had been painted by Chuck Arnett in 1962.
Life (magazine) | 1960s and the end of an era
Adams formed the Smithsonian Cultural Education Committee to promote diversity across all aspects of Smithsonian operations. He also encouraged digitization projects, such as the National Air and Space Museum's videodisc technology for storage and retrieval of documents, photos, and other information. The "culture wars" arrived at the Smithsonian in 1991, with criticisms of The West as America, an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 1994, Science in American Life, at the National Museum of American History, provoked outcries from the scientific community for its critical look at American science. And the first script for the Enola Gay exhibit in the National Air and Space Museum was completed shortly before Adams' departure.
Robert McCormick Adams Jr. | Secretary of the Smithsonian
The LLGAF also publishes "The Archive" made available to its membership that includes information on the Leslie-Lohman collection, new acquisitions, events, and articles on artists and exhibitions. The Museum has a library with more than 2,500 volumes on gay art and maintains files on more than 2,000 individual artists. The Museum has begun to travel its exhibitions as its 2013 "Sascha Schneider" exhibition traveled to the Schwules Museum in Berlin. The Museum's "Classical Nude: The Making of Queer History" was on preview at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives gallery in West Hollywood in the summer of 2014. The Museum makes objects in its collection available for loan to qualified organizations and in recent years has borrowed works from other institutions, including the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art | Programs
The Museum is a member of the American Alliance of Museums and operates pursuant to their guidelines. As of 2019, the LLM was the only museum in the world dedicated to artwork documenting the LGBTQ experience. The Museum maintains a Permanent Collection into which more than 1,300 objects have been accessioned. The Permanent Collection contains works by a number of well-known gay artists such as Berenice Abbott, Abel Azcona, David Hockney, Ingo Swann, Catherine Opie, Andy Warhol, Tom of Finland, Delmas Howe, Jean Cocteau, David Wojnarowicz, Robert Mapplethorpe, George Platt Lynes, Horst, Duncan Grant, James Bidgood, Duane Michals, Charles Demuth, Don Bachardy, Attila Richard Lukacs, Jim French, Del LaGrace Volcano, Paul Thek, Peter Hujar, Arthur Tress and many others.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art | Introduction
In July 1987, William Olander (1950 - 1989), an ACTUP member and curator of the New Museum in New York City, invited ACTUP to make an installation in "...the window by the museum entrance on Broadway". A neon SILENCE=DEATH symbol crowned the display, with a pink triangle below. The pink triangle was appropriated from the Nazi marker for gay men imprisoned at death camps furthering the analogy between the AIDS crisis and the Holocaust. The neon piece became part of the New Museum's permanent collection, and the SILENCE = DEATH graphic was widely disseminated through T-shirts, wheatpastes, and other printed ephemera.
Gran Fury | "Let the Record Show"
The GLBT History Museum debuted with two multimedia exhibitions. In the larger main gallery, "Our Vast Queer Past: Celebrating San Francisco's GLBT History" traced more than 20 key themes in the past 100 years of the history of LGBT people and communities in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Curated by historians Gerard Koskovich, Don Romesburg and Amy Sueyoshi with help from seven associate curators, the show included more than 450 objects, photographs, documents, costumes, and film and video clips. All the materials were from the society's collections, and most had never before been displayed. Among the items in the exhibition were the 1919 honorable discharge of gay novelist Clarkson Crane, who served in World War I; the only known photograph of gay men held in the camps that the United States created for the Japanese-American internment during World War II; documents reflecting the life of female-to-male transsexual organizer and author Lou Sullivan (1950–1991); an extravagant 1983 gown worn by San Francisco drag personality the Baroness Eugenia von Dieckoff (1920–1988); and photographs, flyers and T-shirts from the lesbian sex wars of the 1980s-1990s.
GLBT Historical Society | Debut exhibitions
The National LGBT Museum is a proposed museum of LGBT history and culture. The museum was proposed by Tim Gold, a former employee of the National Postal Museum and Smithsonian Institution, and his husband Mitchell Gold, a furniture manufacturer. The Golds founded the Velvet Foundation in 2007 to fund and create the new museum. Although originally proposed as a museum in Washington, D.C., in 2015 the Board of Directors decided to seek a location for the museum in New York City. The initial funding goal for the museum is between $50 million and $100 million. The status of the museum is currently uncertain; the official Twitter account of the National LGBT Museum has tweeted once since 2016.
National LGBT Museum | Introduction
Among the 5,000 items are their pulp fiction collection, organizational records of local, national and regional LGBT organizations, personal records of local and national personalities, the Joel Starkey Collection, serials, gay erotica - pictorial works, and LGBT ephemera, film, audio and oral histories. The collection includes the gavel that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" back in 2010. According to the Huffington Post, it was donated to Stonewall by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who had received it from Pelosi. Then Museum president, Bryan Knicely, said "if I didn't work here, I would think it belonged to the Smithsonian." The Stonewall National Museum & Archives is currently run by Executive Director, Chris Rudisill.
Stonewall National Museum &amp; Archives | Items in collection
In 2015, Andrea Jenkins began work at the Tretter Collection as curator of the Transgender Oral History Project (TOHP).
Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies | People
"The Galleria: a Collection of Physique Art." The Studio Bookshop, New York, 1969. See advertisement in "The Silent Men 4" (NY: Times Square Studio) 1969. French's drawings were included with the work of others in this early exhibition of gay erotica. "Jim French: Still Point." Wessel + O’Connor Fine Art, New York, June 2 - July 9, 1994. Black and white photographs of the male figure taken by French between 1968 and 1994. See “Art Exhibitions,” New York Magazine 27:23 (6 June 1994): 80. "Jim French: Masc." Wessel + O’Connor Fine Art, New York, June 26 - August 27, 1999.
Jim French (photographer) | Exhibitions
The blog requested donations to send a "flamboyantly gay" couple to the event. Later one of the men admitted he wasn't gay and said that he was curious to see if the museum would let them in.
Creation Museum | Programs and events
Although books are the core of the collection (including a large holding of gay pulp fiction), substantial sections include textiles, glassware, film, music, art works, and three-dimensional objects such as statuary, event buttons, and furniture. The collection includes unpublished manuscripts, vertical files, and periodicals in approximately 56 languages. Much of the material is from people and organizations in the United States during the last third of the twentieth century. Among the significant archival holdings are: The collection was started by Jean-Nickolaus Tretter, a Minnesota-born archivist in the 1950s, and later donated to the University of Minnesota Libraries.
Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies | Collection
The museum was also involved in the restoration of historic aircraft, including the "Enola Gay", which had dropped an atomic bomb in 1945 on the Japanese town of Hiroshima. In 1994 Harwit became embroiled in public debate when his preparations for an "Enola Gay" exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the event were accused of being "revisionist history" for including Japanese accounts of the attack and photographs of the victims. His critics alleged that the exhibition commentary "depicted the Japanese as victims of a United States motivated by vengeance." Two of the lines about the war in the Pacific became infamous: The immediately preceding two sentences did acknowledge that Those lines, in turn, were immediately preceded by The controversy led Harwit to resign as director of the National Air and Space Museum in May 1995.
Martin Harwit | "Enola Gay" controversy
"To Catch a Glimpse", Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y. (2000-present). "AIDS; A Living Archive", co-curated with Jane Rosett part of the exhibit "Gay Men's Health Crisis: 20 Years Fighting for People with H.I.V./AIDS."Museum of the City of New York, New York, N.Y. (2001). “Offerings,” Museums of World Culture, Goteborg, Sweden (2004/2005); Fowler Museum, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California (2008); Durbin Art Gallery, Durbin, South Africa.
Jean Carlomusto | Exhibits
The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation was founded by J. Frederic "Fritz" Lohman and Charles W. Leslie. The two men had been collecting art for several years, and mounted their first exhibition of gay art in their loft on Prince Street in New York City in 1969. They opened a commercial art gallery shortly thereafter, but this venue closed in the early 1980s at the advent of the AIDS pandemic. In 1987, the two men applied for nonprofit status as a precursor to establishing a foundation to preserve their collection of gay art and continue exhibition efforts. The Internal Revenue Service objected to the word "gay" in the title of the foundation and held up the nonprofit application for several years.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art | Background
Its "Keepin' On" exhibit features African American lesbians.
Lesbian Herstory Archives | Organization and exhibitions
Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough later in an interview stated that although he stood by his decision, it "might have been made too quickly" and he described the making of the decision as "painful." Clough mentioned that because of heated controversy surrounding the footage and the possibility that it might "spiral out of control", the Smithsonian might have, in the end, been forced to shut down the entire "Hide/Seek" exhibition, and that was "something he didn't want to happen." The "Hide/Seek" exhibition "examined representations of homosexuality in American portraiture", and Clough stated: "The funders and people who were upset by the decision, and I respect that, still have an appreciation that this exhibition is up.
David Wojnarowicz | Response from Clough and Smithsonian
The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, which donated $10,000 to support the exhibit, also ended all funding for future Smithsonian exhibitions. Both decisions drew criticism from some gay rights supporters, who felt the funding cuts were too draconian in view of the fact that the remainder of the pieces continued to be exhibited.
National Portrait Gallery (United States) | Hide/Seek controversy
magazine before landing at "Smithsonian" in 2012. Among his most controversial magazine features are essays on Neanderthals; Hannibal, George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees' line of succession; the hijinks of onetime Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling; and a groundbreaking "S.I." cover story with NBA player Jason Collins in which Collins became the first active male in one of the four major North American team sports to announce he was gay.
Franz Lidz | Career
"The Empty Closet" began publication in January 1971 by the University of Rochester Gay Liberation Front student group. Some of the founding members were Bob Osborn, Larry Fine, RJ Alcalá, Marshall Goldman, Debbie Lestz, Pattie Evans (her pseudonym during the early publications was Patricia Evers), Karen Hagberg, and Sue Minor. It is one of the longest continually published newspapers in the United States focusing on the LGBT community. It was a newspaper until February 2018.
The Empty Closet | History
They traveled to Europe together. As they began publishing, they styled their writings after Ernest Hemingway. She was curator of the museum from 1968 through 1969.
Beatrice Gilman Proske | Hispanic Society of America
Works by Gay are represented in many of the world's most prestigious art museums, including: the Luxembourg Museum, the Tate Gallery (London), and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan (New York), the Art Institute, the Frick in Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Brussels, Pinakothecq Museum, Munich, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Albright Art Gallery and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France.
Walter Gay | Selected works
The indignation of the Catholic Church, therefore, is extremely grotesque."In 2014, it was announced that the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art would be hosting the exhibit under the title, "Si, quiero", (English: "Yes, I want").
Gonzalo Orquín | Sí, quiero
casualties that would have resulted from an invasion of Japan, had that been necessary, after the museum director, Martin O. Harwit, unilaterally reduced the figure by 75% on January 9, 1995, at the height of the dispute. On January 18 the American Legion called for a congressional investigation of the matter, and on January 24, 1995, 81 members of Congress called for Harwit's resignation. Harwit was forced to resign on May 2. Although the exhibit was "radically reduced" and criticized by the "New York Times" as "the most diminished display in Smithsonian history," the Air and Space Museum placed the forward fuselage of the "Enola Gay" and other items on display as part of a non-political historical exhibition.
National Air and Space Museum | Controversies
"Gay Block: Rescuers of the Holocaust" travelled to numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX.
Gay Block | Exhibitions
Nicoletta's work is represented in the permanent collections of the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Public Library; the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley; the Wallach Collection of Fine Prints and the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library; the Schwules Museum in Berlin, Germany; and the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco.
Daniel Nicoletta | Museum and archival collections
From the beginning, Bohr’s inclination was to collect and preserve the history of gay life in Indianapolis. Thus, by erecting the "Chris Gonzalez Library and Archives", it became the place that espouses and commemorates the lives of same gender loving people and a repository of LGBT titles and memorabilia for generations to come. Gay and lesbian publications like ""The Mirror"", "The Works" and "The Screamer", which is believed to be the city's earliest gay publication serve as examples. "The Screamer" was published on mimeographed paper in 1966 and its writers worked undercover by using pseudonyms.
Chris Gonzalez Library and Archives | Collection
Her work has also been included in over 100 group exhibitions. Her paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, prints and olfactory sculptures can be found in the collections of institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery at George Washington University, the National Museum of American Art, and the Hunter Museum of American Art, which holds four works from her iconoclastic period, and numerous other public and private collections. She has created several multimedia installation works and large-scale public commissions as well.
Gayil Nalls | Biography
Little had his first museum exhibition; Blake Little: Photographs from the Gay Rodeo at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, IN Jan. 18 – July 13, 2014.
Blake Little | Exhibitions
The public figures featured in the exhibition included Jordan as Myra Hindley, Barack Obama wearing Ku Klux Klan robes (made from U.S. flags), the Pope marrying a gay couple, and Angelina Jolie & Madonna passing each other in a supermarket aisle pushing trolleys full of multi-racial children.
Kevin Sharkey | Artist
The items donated to the museum include a Book of Common Prayer that Perry used to lead worship at the first MCC worship gathering and many other services, weddings and funerals over the decades. Perry also donated a book of sermons that he wrote out by hand. The artifacts were symbolically donated to the Museum at a special worship gathering at Metropolitan Community Church of Washington, D.C. on Sunday, October 6, 2019. Three-dimensional objects—like the prayer book and a set of Perry’s vestments—will be housed in a special section of the Museum. The papers and photographs will become part of the LGBT Collection (1915-2019) #1146, which contains over 57 cubic feet (172 boxes) of material related to the national LGBT community spanning 1915 to the current time.
Troy Perry | Smithsonian Institution Archives
Vice President Joe Biden commenting that the show "probably did more to educate the American public" on LGBT issues "than almost anything anybody has ever done so far". In 2014, the Smithsonian Institution added an LGBT history collection to their museum which included items from "Will & Grace". The curator Dwight Blocker Bowers stated that the sitcom used "comedy to familiarize a mainstream audience with gay culture" in a way that was "daring and broke ground" in American media. During its original run, "Will & Grace" was filmed in front of a live studio audience (most episodes and scenes) on Tuesday nights, at Stage 17 in CBS Studio Center.
Will &amp; Grace | Introduction
It also has all photos by Kris Studios, a male physique photography studio founded by Chuck Renslow and Dom Orejudos, that took photos for gay magazines they published. The studio was named in part to honor transgender pioneer Christine Jorgensen. Renslow later co-founded the LA&M with Tony DeBlase.
Leather Archives and Museum | Notable items
Its limited-edition prints are numbered and signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity from the Smithsonian.
S. Dillon Ripley Center | Introduction
And they would give due recognition to the role that promiscuity has played in creating poverty. But instead we can look for the museum to celebrate public sex.". However, since it opened in 2002, the Museum has faced no opposition from religious officials and even hosted an event entitled "Faith in Latex" which brought together leaders from the Catholic, Pentecostal, Episcopalian, Buddhist, and Jewish faiths.
Museum of Sex | History
"Ecce Homo" was donated to the Loyola University Museum of Art by a private collector named Janet Relos (1916-1981). Currently, the statue is part of the museum's Martin D'Arcy, S.J. Collection of Baroque Art. Although Loyola University is a Jesuit institution, the D'Arcy collection contains secular pieces in addition to its Christian collections.
Ecce Homo (statue) | Move to Chicago
Yatrofsky's work is part of the permanent collection with the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and with the Museum of Sex in New York City.
Jessica Yatrofsky | Collections
Aikens's works are included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, VA, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA. Aikens's art has also been featured in many exhibitions, including at Lincoln Center Gallery, the American Visionary Art Museum, and "Works by Gayleen Aiken" (2002) at the Vermont Granite Museum. Posthumous solo exhibits of her work include "Our Yard in the Future: The Art of Gayleen Aiken", an exhibit curated by artist Peter Gallo, at the SUNDAY L.E.S.
Gayleen Aiken | Collections and exhibits
To exhibit and preserve art that speaks directly to the many aspects of the LGBTQ experience, and foster the artists who create it. We embrace the rich creative history of this community by educating, informing, inspiring, entertaining, and challenging all who enter our doors.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art | Mission
Among the objects displayed were a preliminary study for the "MaestraPeace" mural on the façade of the San Francisco Women's Building, the sewing machine used by designer Gilbert Baker to create the first rainbow flag, and the suit worn by openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk when he was assassinated on Nov. 27, 1978. Approximately 25,000 people from throughout the United States and around the world visited the exhibition during its 11-month run.
GLBT Historical Society | Pop-up museum (2008–2009)
The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies is a collection of LGBT historical materials housed in the Special Collections and Rare Books section of the University of Minnesota Libraries. It is located underground in the Elmer L. Andersen special collections facilities on the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus. The Tretter Collection houses over 40,000 items, making it one of the largest GLBT history collections in the United States. The collection is international in scope and is varied in media.
Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies | Introduction
In June 2016, during LGBT Pride Month, the museum hosted an exhibition called "Reel to Real: Portrayals and Perceptions of Gays in Hollywood".
Hollywood Museum | History
The Lesbian Herstory Archives began with personal materials donated by the founders. It includes everything written by founder Joan Nestle. The founders also put out a call for donations of materials and gradually increased their collection over the years. Today the collection holds all manner of historical artifacts, including papers, diaries, journals, photographs, tapes, posters, buttons, periodicals, zines, T-shirts, and videos. Copies of films are available for viewing at the Archives and originals are stored off-site in a climate-controlled storage facility. LHA has accepted donations of materials for the Archives throughout its history. Mabel Hampton donated her extensive lesbian pulp fiction collection to the Archives in 1976.
Lesbian Herstory Archives | Collections
IASHS helped to establish the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas, in partnership with Harry Mohney, and offered a rotating selection of films and other art are on display at the Erotic Heritage Museum. However, the museum is now owned and managed by Harry Mohney. The institute favored open discussion of sexuality, including such issues as oral sex, masturbation, homosexuality, BDSM and informed consent, teen sex and pregnancy, and sex therapy. Roger Libby, adjunct professor, sex therapist, and author of "The Naked Truth About Sex: A Guide to Intelligent Sexual Choices for Teenagers and Twentysomethings", encouraged the use of extensive pre-sex discussions to set parameters and establish comfort levels.
Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality | Activities
Pinto's work was included in Extended Sensibilities, "the first exhibition to address homosexuality as a subject in art", at The New Museum in New York in 1982.
Jody Pinto | Selected Exhibitions
2006 "Mother and Child: Expression of Love", Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History, Washington, DC 2006 "Sistahs, In Our Own Words", Banneker Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD 2007 "A Creative Profile: Artist of the East Bank", Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History, Washington, DC
Amber Robles-Gordon | Museum and University Group Shows
He contributed to the National Park Foundation’s LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History. He earned a B.A. from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, both in history. He has enjoyed fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Social Science Research Council. As Professor in the History Department at the University of South Florida, he teaches courses on the post-1945 U.S. and the history of gender and sexuality.
David K. Johnson | Introduction
The walk through the museum took a visitor through many exhibits in roughly chronological order. A good deal of written commentary in English and Danish explained and augmented many of the items on display. There were extensive exhibitions on the beginning of erotic photography, a room with Playboy-centerfolds and other American pinups, and a special exhibition on Marilyn Monroe, among other things. One of the final displays in Museum Erotica was a small room with a sofa opposite a large wall of small television screens each showing a different porno video. The selections reflected the eclectic nature of the museum's displays.
Museum Erotica | Introduction
Dillon Ripley Center in the National Mall. He donated his talent to produce "In Celebration", a 35-color limited-edition serigraph that highlighted his trademark use of color. The sale benefited the Smithsonian Associates, the continuing education branch of the larger Smithsonian Institution. In early 2009, he again donated his talents to the Smithsonian Associates to produce a 90-color serigraph entitled "Museum Moment", which he describes as "a celebration of art".
Sam Gilliam | Recognition
Leila Gay Forbes Clark (1887-1964) was an entomologist and librarian at the Smithsonian Institution. She was the second woman to direct the Smithsonian's library. Prior to her work at the Smithsonian, she worked as a librarian at Wellesley College, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, and the US Department of Agriculture. She joined the Smithsonian in 1929 and spent the rest of her career there becoming director in 1942. During her tenure she oversaw the merger of the main Smithsonian Library with the U.S. National Museum Library which resulted in the centralized Smithsonian Libraries system currently in place. She and her husband went on frequent butterfly expeditions and coauthored "The Butterflies of Virginia" in 1951.
Leila Clark | Introduction
The objects present in this room are from the later Persian or Shah Abbas period, except for the bed, which originates from Egypt, and a replica of an Egyptian couch with bulls feet.
Gayer-Anderson Museum | The Persian Room
Emma Jane Gay (1830 – March 15, 1919) (also known as E. Jane Gay) was an American woman who devoted her life to social reform and photography. She is notable for her photographs of the Nez Perce, which she took during a federal expedition led by American ethnologist and anthropologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher.
Emma Jane Gay | Introduction
Controversy erupted in March 1994 over a proposed commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan. The centerpiece of the exhibit was the "Enola Gay", the B-29 bomber that dropped Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. When the first draft of the script for the exhibit was leaked by 'Air Force Magazine, the responses were very critical. Two sentences described as infamous that sparked controversy were, "For most Americans, this war was fundamentally different than the one waged against Germany and Italy - it was a war of vengeance. For most Japanese, it was a war to defend their unique culture against western imperialism." Veterans' groups, led by the Air Force Association and The Retired Officers Association, argued strongly that the exhibit's inclusion of Japanese accounts and photographs of victims politicized the exhibit and insulted U.S.
National Air and Space Museum | Controversies
The museum does not yet have a building of its own. Greg Youmans, in "Elsa Gidlow's garden" describes the museum as blurring the line between artistic and curatorial practice.
Chris E. Vargas | Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art
Founder Daniel Gluck wanted to start a museum dedicated to "the history, evolution and cultural significance of human sexuality." The official mission of the Museum of Sex is "to preserve and present the history, evolution, and cultural significance of human sexuality. In its exhibitions, programs and publications, The Museum of Sex is committed to open discourse and exchange, and to bringing to the public the best in current scholarship." The museum focuses on a variety of sexual preferences and subcultures, including lesbian and gay history and erotica, BDSM, pornography, and sex work. Although the museum's exhibits are presented in an educational format, they sometimes feature explicit content.
Museum of Sex | History
Jay Craven's 1985 documentary "Gayleen" details Aiken's life and artworks.
Gayleen Aiken | In popular culture
The Iowa Women's Archives in the University of Iowa Libraries now hosts Cl/LL archival material. The Lavender Library, Archives and Cultural Exchange in Sacramento, California holds a substantial collection of the magazines.
Common Lives/Lesbian Lives | Archives
A visitor to the museum wrote to the Pall Mall Gazette to declare that 'those looking for enlightenment must go away sadly baffled, and those who, having a regard for the sentiment and charm of what such a collection should be, must blush indeed as they see this scanty, mediocre, and careless assortment.' A lacklustre response from the public and a lack of space at the museum were blamed for the exhibition's poor reception.
Gabrielle Enthoven | Theatre Collection
The remaining artworks and ephemera have been promised to the Smithsonian Institution per the artist's request.
Suzanne Jackson (artist) | Gallery 32
The Enola Gay is a USAAF B-29 Superfortress, that dropped Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used in warfare, on Hiroshima in Japan during WWII Enola Gay may also refer to:
Enola Gay (disambiguation) | Introduction
While we have art galleries and studios one of the things we’re really missing, for a community and city that has such a high concentration of LGBT individuals, was something about our culture. It’s a great opportunity to introduce people to how rich our struggle is for equality.” The Gallery is divided into two halves: one side features semi-permanent items, such as the gavel used by Nancy Pelosi when Don't Ask Don't Tell was repealed in 2010. It was donated by Rep. Barney Frank. Also included is a timeline that features members of the LGBT community and LGBT-themed events. The other half is devoted to temporary exhibits.
Stonewall National Museum &amp; Archives | Stonewall Gallery
One of the exhibit's curators said that Donohue represented an anti-Semitic hate group that viewed gays and lesbians as "raw meat" in the culture wars.
Bill Donohue | Public art
He was one of the subjects of an exhibition at Museum Africa, "Joburg Tracks." A 1997 oral history by Bruno and an archive of materials saved by Bruno is part of the Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) collection.
Michele Bruno | Biography
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (LLM), formerly the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, is a visual art museum in SoHo, Lower Manhattan, New York City. It mainly collects, preserves and exhibits visual arts created by LGBTQ artists or art about LGBTQ themes, issues, and people. The Museum, operated by the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, offers exhibitions year-round in numerous locations and owns more than 22,000 objects, including, paintings, drawings, photography, prints and sculpture. It has been recognized as one of the oldest arts groups engaged in the collection and preservation of gay art. The Foundation was awarded Museum status by the New York State Board of Regents in 2011 and was formally accredited as a museum in 2016.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art | Introduction
It was a gay bar frequented by gay motorcycle clubs. It was made famous by the June 1964 Paul Welch "Life" article entitled "Homosexuality In America," the first time a national publication reported on gay issues. "Life" photographer was referred to the Tool Box by Hal Call, who had long worked to dispel the myth that all homosexual men were effeminate. The article opened with a two-page spread of the mural of life size leathermen in the bar, which had been painted by Arnett in 1962. The article described San Francisco as "The Gay Capital of America" and inspired many gay leathermen to move there.
Chuck Arnett | History
It now resides in the Newark Museum in New Jersey.
Frederick Dana Marsh | Introduction
David Pilgrim, the founder, and curator of the Jim Crow Museum, has published two books related to the museum's collection and mission. "Understanding Jim Crow" introduces readers to the Jim Crow Museum and how the museum uses racist memorabilia to teach tolerance and promote social justice. "Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors" is a compilation of stories from the Jim Crow Museum.
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia | Publications
Favarola Museum, Miami Gardens, Florida. PURE AND BEYOND: Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.
Emilio Hector Rodriguez | Collective exhibitions (selected)
In the March 2012 "Modern Luxury DC Magazine", Ealy Mays's "Mona Lisa Likes Pancakes" was featured along with Romare Bearden's "Untitled", Laura Abbate's "Untitled", John McMahon's "Obama 2008", and C. M. Birge's "Dancer Male Bronze", among the collection of fame philanthropist and patron of the arts Reginald Van Lee.
Ealy Mays | Past exhibits / featured
This room is well known for its dresses and cupboards; which were designed by Anderson Pasha and were modeled after Turkish examples.
Gayer-Anderson Museum | Service Room
Dillon Ripley Center in the National Mall, Washington, D.C.
April Gornik | Collections
Horacio Villalobos, "La Maniguis", "La Supermana", "Mama Mela" and "Chef Ornica" participate.
Desde Gayola | Theatre
In 2006, she was listed on the Pink Power list of 100 most influential gay and lesbian people of 2006. In 2003, Gallaccio was shortlisted for the Turner Prize alongside Grayson Perry, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Willie Doherty. One of her pieces for the show was "preserve "beauty"", 1991–2003, which was made from glass, fixings and 2,000 red gerberas.
Anya Gallaccio | Awards and acknowledgements
With Berman's recent 2015 Smithsonian Institution induction in the American History Museum, Berman's impactful contributions in the representation of such style, particularly with Proyecto Uno will be in the permanent collection.
JoAnn Berman | Introduction
Tretter was honored for its dedication to filling in the gaps of the GLBT archival record and for striving to include marginalized voices from within the GLBT community.
Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies | Awards, honors and media recognition
The Institution publishes "Smithsonian" magazine monthly and "Air & Space" magazine bimonthly. "Smithsonian" was the result of Secretary of the Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley asking the retired editor of "Life" magazine Edward K. Thompson to produce a magazine "about things in which the Smithsonian Institution is interested, might be interested or ought to be interested". Another Secretary of the Smithsonian, Walter Boyne, founded "Air & Space." The Smithsonian Institute Press publishes books.
Smithsonian Institution | Publications
Guggenheim Museum, NY.
Dana Hoey | Introduction
Alan Bell, an African-American graphic designer who had published "Gaysweek" for three years in New York City during the late 1970s, was urged to start a news periodical for black lesbians and gay men by black LGBT AIDS activists such as Phill Wilson. But at first he resisted renewing a commitment to professional publishing. Bell had, however, founded Black Jack, a black gay men's safer sex club, in Los Angeles. It was not long before the dearth of reliable information in print about African-American LGBTs and about the HIV crisis among them evoked his efforts to fill an unmet need.
BLK (magazine) | History
People may not like to talk about it, but sex is everywhere ... even at the Smithsonian. The topic may not be featured in major museum exhibitions, but the vaults and labs of the Smithsonian feature stories about "the birds and the bees." Host Tom Cavanagh goes behind the scenes of the Smithsonian to find evidence of romance and sex.
Stories from the Vaults | Episode 6: "Sex 101"
As an eyewitness participant, Fritcher contributed an article on Chuck Arnett ("Artist Chuck Arnett: His Life/Our Times”), to editor Mark Thompson’s "Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice". He was a frequent historical journalist for the "Bay Area Reporter" and "Leather Times". In 1972, he was the first gay writer to unearth and interview Samuel Steward (Phil Andros); his Steward audiotapes were referenced in Justin Spring's biography of Steward, "Secret Historian" (2010). As a gay popular culture critic, Fritscher began collecting his extensive gay history archive in 1965. Chris Nelson photographed Fritscher for Richard Bulger's original "Bear" magazine as well as for the photography book "The Bear Cult", selected and introduced by Edward Lucie-Smith.
Jack Fritscher | Gay historian and cultural participant
In the 1970s, Mayo was Political History Division Assistant Curator at the National Museum of American History. She eventually transitioned into the position of curator emerita, managing major exhibitions about political history, women's history and voting rights. As curator emerita, she curated the major exhibit, "From Parlor to Politics: Women and Reform in America, 1890-1925" in 1990 and in 1992 she curated the museum's major exhibition about the First Ladies of the United States: "First Ladies exhibition, First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image". The exhibition toured nationally from 2004-2007.
Edith Mayo | Smithsonian Institution
In 2014 and 2015, the Getty Foundation awarded grants totaling $270,000 for exhibition research, support, and implementation of "Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A." Organized by the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries, the exhibition takes its name from Meza's work and focuses on queer, Chicanx artists and their collaborations from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. The exhibit was first shown at the ONE Archives' gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles before traveling to several galleries across the United States. Co-curators C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz worked for four years, on behalf of the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California to assemble and research the collection for the exhibition, spending time in Mexico, Spain, and England.
Mundo Meza | Legacy
In 1980 she and Thomas N. Armstrong III co-edited another exhibition catalogue for the museum. Other exhibits followed in 1986 and 1990.
Jean Lipman | Introduction
Enola Gay: The Men, The Mission, The Atomic Bomb is a 1980 American made-for-television historical drama film about the B-29 mission that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II.
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb | Introduction
Furthermore, she co-founded the Monroe County Historical Society Museum.
Gayle Cook | Historical preservation
Baker Memorial Library, to the Vern and Bonnie Bullough Collection on Sex and Gender, a special collection within Oviatt Library at California State University, Northridge. In October 2010, ONE transferred its archives to the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives for preservation. ONE, Inc. continues to exist to organize exhibits and gather new material.
ONE, Inc. | Later history
ONE Archives also collects and houses over 3,500 posters; textiles, such as T-shirts, banners and flags; and memorabilia such as buttons, matchbooks, dolls and other three-dimensional objects.
ONE National Gay &amp; Lesbian Archives | Posters, textiles, and objects
"The Gay Times" also published an interview with her in June issue.
Elaine Paige: The Ultimate Collection | Promotion