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Opens June 4
June 4 – September 26
Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement is a national traveling exhibit created by the Newseum in Washington, D.C. that explores how the police raid of the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village in June 1969 became the spark that ignited the modern gay rights movement in the United States.
It uses artifacts and images to shed light on important milestones of gay rights history, from the 1978 assassination of Harvey Milk, one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials to the AIDS crisis. It covers hate crime legislation and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, as well as the fight for marriage equality.
Rise Up also examines pop culture’s role in influencing attitudes about the LGBTQ community through film, television and sports, and examines how the gay rights movement has appropriated the power of public protest and demonstration to get laws changed and shatter stereotypes.
Check out MoSH Summer Pride Events & Activities.
Learn more about our companion exhibit Memphis Proud: The Resilience of a Southern LGBTQ+ Community.
A Queer Understanding Podcast (featuring Memphis Museum of Science & History)
Once a month from May to September, Angelica and Cassy will release an episode surrounding MoSH and the LGBTQ+ history of Memphis.
The May episode featured the director of exhibits and collections Raka Nandi, as well as two of her interns, Olivia Roman and Patrick Grooms, that made the exhibit possible. You can listen to the May episode here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1920716/episodes/10631215
Presented By
Sponsored by
Archer Malmo’s LGBTQIA+ ERG
Focus Magazine
International Paper
Nike
Raymond James
Sowell Realtors
“Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement” was developed by the Newseum. The Newseum is an affiliate of the Freedom Forum, whose mission is to foster First Amendment freedoms for all. freedomforum.org
