🌈 Happy Pride from our Zoo crew! ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 #SmithsonianPride #Pride

Pride buttons from Smithsonian #FontSunday #Pride Month2021 #Pride #SmithsonianPride the Design Museum

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Aquaria 🤌🏼
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Have your 🎟️ yet, #BYQueers ? bit.ly/BYT-Pride-Kick…

#DCPride #SmithsonianPride

🎤1st woman to perform 'St. Louis Blues'
📺 1st African American to star in a tv show
🎬 2nd African American to be nominated for an Oscar

Ethel Waters was a trailblazer in the entertainment industry. More about her work and life: s.si.edu/3BIauwi

#SmithsonianPride

Black LGBTQ+ Americans have made enormous contributions to global history and culture. From literature and the performing arts to religion, politics, and activism, members of Black LGBTQ+ communities have defined understandings of what it means to be American. #SmithsonianPride

The first #Pride marches marked the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, when police raided New York City's Stonewall Inn in June 1969. This photo from a New York Gay Pride Parade in the 1980s is in our Smithsonian NMAAHC. More Pride history: s.si.edu/3y0t9PV #SmithsonianPride

LGBTQ+ history = American history
Say it loud, say it proud. #smithsonianpride

#SmithsonianPride begins with FUN! The interconnected figures dancing around in Keith Haring's Fun Gallery exhibition poster speak to the creative energy that blossomed in 1980s NY, spearheaded in large part by queer artists. Happy #PrideMonth folks!
[Poster; Keith Haring; 1983]

“I AM A BLACK, GAY MAN. I AM A BLACK MAN. I AM A MAN.”

The LGBTQ+ objects & archival collections at the National Museum of African American History and Culture focus on the familiar, untold, & unknown stories that have shaped the nation’s past. #SmithsonianPride #APeoplesJourney

For #Pride , our National Museum of American History traces the history of the rainbow symbol. 🌈 #SmithsonianPride s.si.edu/2WKS2A4

Today marks the anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, the start of the modern LGBTQ+ Rights Movement. Black Americans in this community have made enormous contributions to global history & culture. More LGBTQ+ stories: s.si.edu/3NdArrF #SmithsonianPride

.Rayceen Pendarvis, HRH 👑 explains what
#NationalComingOutDay is all about—living your truth. #MakeSpace #SmithsonianPride

Today marks the Anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, the start of the modern LGBTQ+ Rights Movement. African Americans in this community have made enormous achievements & contributions to global history & culture. s.si.edu/2lAePKS #SmithsonianPride

This cushion cover was made by artisan May Morris, daughter of designer William Morris.

Director of Morris & Co’s embroidery department and co-founder of the Women’s Guild of Arts, May lived with companion Mary Lobb at Kelmscott Manor, the Morris family home. #SmithsonianPride

This Keith Haring poster in our Cooper Hewitt exemplifies how the artist turned two-color line drawings into complex imagery. His work addressed issues like corporate greed, political corruption, racism, sexuality and homophobia. bit.ly/3fst91X #Pride #SmithsonianPride

Pet Shop Boys are excited to be part of the Smithsonian 'Project Pride' virtual concert on Sunday, May 31st at 8pm EDT, celebrating the diversity, resilience and creativity in #LGBTQ + history and culture.

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#petshopboys Pet Shop Boys they are excited to be part of the Smithsonian'Project Pride' virtual concert on Sunday, May 31st at 8pm EDT, celebrating the diversity, resilience and creativity in #LGBTQ + history and culture.
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Helen James was arrested and discharged from the US Air Force during a 1950s campaign to remove LGBTQ+ people from government. In her 90s, she won a lawsuit to have her discharge changed to honorable.

📸: National Air and Space Museum s.si.edu/3tk8lTL #SmithsonianPride #BecauseOfHerStory

Techno and house are forms of electronic dance music that emerged primarily out of Chicago and Detroit during the mid to late 1980s. Chicago radio and club DJs began producing new versions of dance songs using drum machines and synthesizers. #BlackMusicMonth #SmithsonianPride

'I hope it makes it easier for kids growing up gay that they know that another one of their heroes was like them.' - Bear Ride, sister of astronaut Sally Ride

Sally Ride was the first American woman in space and the first known LGBT astronaut. #Pride #SmithsonianPride