Stonewall National Museum in Fort Lauderdale Is Preserving LGBTQ History

When police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village and ignited nationwide protests and the gay rights movement in 1969, many of the words that now form the abbreviation LGBTQIA+ hadn’t yet been adopted by the community it has come to represent. Robert Kesten, director at Stonewall National Museum Archives & Library (SNMAL) in Fort Lauderdale, is betting there will be more letters added to the abbreviation — all of the letters in the alphabet even — in the coming years, as people find more words that describe their experiences and how they feel about themselves…