NEW YORK — The new Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center will be the first LGBTQ+ visitor center within the National Park Service, and organizers are set to break ground on the new endeavor.
The center is set to open in the summer of 2024 and will take over the half of the Stonewall Inn that is no longer occupied by the bar on Christopher Street in New York City's West Village.
"Our goal from the beginning has been to look at what can we do and how can we preserve, advance and celebrate the legacy of the Stonewall Rebellion," said Ann Marie Gothard, president of the Pride Live Board of Directors, in an interview with ABC News. The Stonewall National Monument was designated as the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights and history by President Barack Obama in 2016.
Gothard said it"could help to really bring people of differing minds together to learn about the LGBTQ history, as well as culture," in a time when LGBTQ rights are under legislative attacks.
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