Tag: AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)

Among the dozens of items displayed in “Illegal to be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall” — an exhibition case unveiled this month at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. — are several items from our editor, longtime LGBTQ activist and journalist Bil Browning. The items, donated by Browning and his longtime partner Jerame Davis, include a small paper gift box taken from a gay wedding, a bullhorn from Davis’ activist days in Indiana, and two buttons:...