The National LGBT Museum is a proposed
museum
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of
LGBT
' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity.
The LGBT term ...
history and culture.
The museum was proposed by Tim Gold, a former employee of the
National Postal Museum and
Smithsonian Institution
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, and his husband
Mitchell Gold, a furniture manufacturer. The Golds founded the Velvet Foundation in 2007 to fund and create the new museum.
[
Although originally proposed as a museum in Washington, D.C., in 2015 the board of directors decided to seek a location for the museum in ]New York City
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.[ The status of the museum is currently uncertain; the official Twitter account of the National LGBT Museum has tweeted once since 2016.]
References
Proposed museums in the United States
Proposed buildings and structures in New York City
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