Posts by Jason Baumann

Discover thousands of historic LGBTQ photos now available online—plus don't miss Bill T. Jones, Andrea Jenkins, Toshi Reagon, Pamela Sneed, Fran Tirado, Ianne Fields Stewart, and more this week!

This week’s Supreme Court decision is hopefully a major turning point in this history. We're sharing some highlights from our collection that reflect the decades of activism.

Larry Kramer has been such a huge influence on LGBTQ politics, literature, drama, and film.

We are pleased to announce that Chris Babits has been selected as The New York Public Library’s Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar for 2019–2020.

As the 50th anniversary of Stonewall approaches, be sure to visit our exhibition Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50, attend a Pride edition of the Library After Hours this Friday, June 21, and explore new LGBTQ reading lists.

This Pride Month is a perfect time to visit The New York Public Library's exhibition Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50, which is open through July 13; attend events with LGBTQ authors, activists, and performers; and explore film screenings, workshops, and discussions at our locations across the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island.

We are pleased to announce that Emily Bass has been selected as The New York Public Library’s Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar for 2018–2019.

This LGBTQ Pride Month, The New York Public Library will host Roxane Gay, Tim Gunn, and Eileen Myles, as well as drag queens, film screenings, workshops, and discussions. Check out these events for all ages, and happy #RainbowReading!

We are pleased to announce that Marcia M. Gallo has been selected as The New York Public Library’s Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar for 2017–2018.

Almost 50 years after Stonewall, New York City's LGBT community is getting ready to march down 5th Avenue for the annual LGBT Pride March. The march commemorates the anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion, which began June 28, 1969. As we look back at that important moment, learning about the activists who shaped the LGBT movement has never been easier.

Happy Pride Month! The Library is celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month with a variety of #RainbowReading books and exciting programs for all ages across our 92 locations.

If you want to learn more about LGBTQ activism from the 1970’s and beyond, check out these histories, biographies, and databases from the Library's collections.

The White House designation of Stonewall as a national monument prominently featured LGBT historical materials from our Manuscripts & Archives Division, available online in our Digital Collections.

We are pleased to announce that Hugh Ryan has been selected as the New York Public Library's Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar for 2016-2017. Hugh Ryan is a curator and journalist based in Brooklyn, whose work primarily explores queer culture and history. He is the Founder of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, and sits on the Board of QED: A Journal in LGBTQ Worldmaking. During his fellowship at the Library, he will 

June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, and the Library is proud to be hosting a wide array of events throughout the month to celebrate. Join us for conversations, trivia, dancing, and much more with one of our exciting events.

Given the dramatic remapping of marriage equality this past week, it is useful to look back to a very different kind of map of LGBT rights drafted 50 years ago from the archives of a pioneering gay rights group whose records are held in the Library’s Manuscripts & Archives Division.

In order to foster a community conversation about HIV and AIDS in dialogue with the Library’s major archives on the history of the AIDS crisis, The New York Public Library is hosting a project to create site-specific installations in four library branches—across the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island—that explore the ways that HIV and AIDS are currently affecting these local New York City communities.

Founded in 1950, the Mattachines took their name from a French Renaissance-era group of masked peasants who performed skits during the Feast of Fools – often ones that poked fun at or protested their treatment at the hands of the local nobility. Along with the Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian social and political group founded in San Francisco in 1955, they advocated a kind of radical normality in the face of the overwhelming consensus that homosexuals were deviant, pathological, and diseased. Looking at pictures of them now is like looking at gay activists by way of Leave It to Beaver. Yet 

The life and work of Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892) are prodigiously documented in the Oscar Lion Collection, held in the New York Public Library's Rare Books Division.