New Facility Offers Public Local Resources
In recent articles by the Sun-Sentinel and other newspapers, Stonewall Library & Archives has been referred to as an "adult book collection" and a "gay-themed library".
That is akin to referring to Fort Lauderdale's splendid African-American Library and Research Center as "black-themed" or the Smithsonian Institution's American History Museum a "memorabilia collection." Such descriptions trivialize the importance of the collection and continue to minimize and marginalize the role of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people in American history.
That is akin to referring to Fort Lauderdale's splendid African-American Library and Research Center as "black-themed" or the Smithsonian Institution's American History Museum a "memorabilia collection." Such descriptions trivialize the importance of the collection and continue to minimize and marginalize the role of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people in American history.
