Stonewall National Museum & Archives

A great place to learn the history of LGBTQ events thru time. Highly recommend to learn our history.

The Stonewall National Museum and Archives is a wonderful fixture in our community both by making sure many pieces of LGBTQ+ Historical significance are showcased and saved for future generations to come and also for people to borrow books and other media for personal enjoyment or for students to write papers about.

We came here to see their exhibit on Wonderwoman. Who knew there was so much Wonderwoman memorabilia? Lunch boxes, pez, pins, posters. They also had another exhibit on MLK and the man who organized the march in Washington DC.

The 1969 Stonewall Uprising in NYC was a series of spontaneous, violent protests by LGBTQ+ people against a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village. It sparked activism and ignited the the modern gay rights movement in the United States. One of the results of the new call to activism was the founding of the Stonewall National Museum and Archives in 1973 by Mark N. Silber. In 2009 the current location opened next to Holiday Park on Sunrise Boulevard in a former Broward County Library branch. Admission is free. The John C. Graves Library contains material on LGBTQ+ topics. There are also two small exhibition areas, the Ross Gallery and Hester Gallery with changing exhibitions. One of the exhibits I saw was Amazon Rising: The Legacy of Wonder Woman presented by the Stonewall National Women's Fund with items from the Harriet Leyden Collection. Items chronicle Wonder Woman's comic book debut in 1941to her modern era. It is on display until February 17th along with Will You Wear My Pin? The Wearable History of Our Community. This is one of the largest LGBTQ lending libraries with 29,000 plus volumes and more than 6 million pages in the archives. Materials are free to view but checking out requires a $50 membership fee. There are also rotating exhibits, panel discussions, films, and author presentations. A visit to the Stonewall National Museum and Archives can be combined with Art Serve next door which also has a free exhibit gallery.

Stonewall museum is attached to library but in a separate wing. Great collection of LGBT books and memorabilia. Informative pride month exhibit and video playing. Books for sale or check out with a library card. Free but donations appreciated.