The NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project learned earlier this month that a promised $32,000 federal grant was gone.<\/p>\n
The money was meant to document and nominate the home of Bayard Rustin, the man who organized the March on Washington, as a National Historic Landmark.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
The NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project learned earlier this month a promised $32,000 federal grant was taken back by the federal government<\/p>\n
The money was meant to document and nominate the home of Bayard Rustin, the man who organized the March on Washington, as a National Historic Landmark
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Despite losing the grant, they turned their 10 year anniversary party into a fundraiser, beating their goal before the night even began<\/p>\n
\u201cBayard Rustin contributed so much to this country, and recognizing his residence is an important element in the full American story,\u201d co-founder Ken Lustbader said.<\/p>\n
The work takes months of research, mapping, photography and interviews. It\u2019s a painstaking process of preserving a story that history once ignored.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe like to say we\u2019re making an invisible history visible,\u201d Lustbader said.<\/p>\n
Lustbader and his co-founders, all preservation experts, started this project 10 0years ago to prove queer history didn\u2019t begin or end at Stonewall.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to show that gay and lesbian and trans and queer people were a part of the history of New York and of America,\u201d co-founder Andrew Dolkart said.<\/p>\n
Their research connects past to present, and despite losing the grant, they beat their fundraising goal before the night even began.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can never erase LGBTQ lives,\u201d Lustbader said.<\/p>\n
With the money in hand to do the research to nominate Rustin, they wonder whether the federal government will give his home landmark status because of his identity.<\/p>\n
NY1 reached out to the National Park Service, which gave the grant.<\/p>\n
In an email, the department replied that, due to the federal government shutdown, they would \u201crespond to non-shutdown related queries once appropriations have been enacted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project learned earlier this month that a promised $32,000 federal grant was gone.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2296,25,231,388,9,24,12,63,134,136,135,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-5871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-app-human-interest","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-human-interest","11":"tag-louis-finley","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-staten-island","17":"tag-staten-island-headlines","18":"tag-staten-island-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}