Items in Collection
The circulating library currently has over 20,000 books and 1,000 DVDs and new titles are added every week and can be found under the New Arrivals section on their website. They also offer over 60 national and regional periodicals in their John Graves Reading Room.
The archives currently contains more than 5,000 items. The collection has been professionally catalogued and is maintained according to strict conservation standards. Among the 5,000 items is their extensive pulp fiction collection, organizational records of local, national and regional LGBT organizations, their large serials collection, personal records of local and national personalities, the Joel Starkey Collection, gay erotica - pictorial works, and LGBT ephemera, film, audio and oral histories.
The Stonewall Museum includes a permanent timeline of American LGBT history as well as changing history exhibitions. One of their prized possessions is the gavel that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used to to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" back in 2010. According to Huffington Post, it was donated to Stonewall by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who had received it from Pelosi. Museum president, Bryan Knicely, said "if I didn't work here, I would think it belonged to the Smithsonian." The Smithsonian has actually contacted Stonewall about borrowing it. The piece is just one of many of the LGBT artifacts that Stonewall has.
Read more about this topic: Stonewall Library & Archives
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