The Queer Capital
Feb 18, 2020
4 minutes
—JAM
hile South Beach and Key West garner more attention, Fort Lauderdale has been vying for the title of Florida’s most LGBTQ-welcoming city for decades. The city held it’s first Pride celebration in 1977, which was born—like the queer rights movement itself—from anger rather than celebration, in an outpouring of protestation following a successful state referendum that overturned Miami-Dade County’s landmark gay rights ordinance. That history is one reason why, when establishing what is now the largest LGBTQ circulating library in the U.S., the community named it Stonewall National Museum and Archives, to carry on the commitment to social
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