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is why i believe it is past time that the lgbtq community builds a museum.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x46329

the ignorance displayed in this thread -- mostly by other gay folk -- displays the need for a cultural and historical center that begins to unfold the breadth and depth of gay history -- not just in this country but around the world.

we -- for the most part -- are not born into gay culture -- we walk into it as adults -- individuals -- deprived of the stories and history that we would learn from parents and uncles and aunts and friends and neighbors.

we pick it up -- here and there -- from bars and discos -- newspapers and online zines -- but no thread of public continuity exists.

we don't even know about the struggle for the word gay -- about how we used it instead of homosexual because of the bigotry of freudian psychiatrists during the first part of the last century. thank god for jungians.

we need a place that tells the good, the bad, the ugly and the beatiful history of lgbtq people in all of human history.
from alexander to harvey milk -- from roy cohn to mark foley.

from da vinci to warhol.

throught ALL of human history we have been there -- often our gayness purposely erased.

oh we have some archives that exist notably in new york and dc and san francisco -- but no comprenhensive center -- with curators and archivists that continuously work to tell and record our remarkable lives.

and now it's time.