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In early May of this year I blogged the following: One week after 9/11, I rescued the above unsigned painting from the front wall of the elementary school on my Chelsea street. It was one of hundreds affixed there in what doubtlessly was a group therapy project for the children. A violent rainstorm had just begun when I removed it …

Today the official blog of the Smithsonian remembers late gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny and provides a link farm to his donated items and his papers on file at the Library of Congress.

On June 3rd, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will launch an exhibit and website devoted to examining the 30-year history of the AIDS pandemic. “HIV and AIDS Thirty Years Ago” will look at the public health, scientific and political responses in the early phase (1981-87) of the global pandemic. This showcase will be located in the museum’s “Science …

Google has launched Art Project, an interactive site allowing users to wander around the world’s great museums and zoom in on masterpieces with great detail. Pretty damn cool. And talk about an internet time suck!

The leaders of Kenya’s evangelical movement are pressuring the national museum to remove a world-famous collection of bones which conclusively depict the evolution of apes to humans. The collection includes the most complete skeleton yet found of Homo erectus, the 1.7 million-year-old Turkana Boy unearthed by Dr Leakey’s team in 1984 at Nariokotome, near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. The …

The Catholic League, that one-guy-with-a-computer outfit headed by anti-gay nutjob Bill Donohue, has successfully pressured the Smithsonian into removing an AIDS-themed video exhibit by the late gay artist David Wojnarowicz. Because for eleven seconds, ants can be seen crawling on a crucifix. The Smithsonian acted after incoming GOP House Speaker John Boehner and incoming GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor …

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From 6pm to 9pm today, all the museums along the Upper East Side’s vaunted Museum Mile are offering free admission as part of the 31st Annual Museum Mile Festival. One day a year, for the past 31 years, nine of the country’s finest museums, all ones that call Fifth Avenue home, collectively open their doors from 6pm – 9pm for …

London’s National Portrait Gallery will open a show in July titled “Gay Icons”, but some of the folks you’d most expect to be on a list of that sort do not appear The late Diana, Princess of Wales, and former South African President Nelson Mandela are two of the personalities identified as “Gay Icons” in an exhibition bearing that title …