Why Can’t New York Make a Proper Monument to Gay History?
Fifty-five years after Stonewall, a new tourist center suggests that what the riots stood for is old history. But is everything now OK?
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![Guests at a recent reception at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, in Greenwich Village, which makes its public debut June 28, Pride Day, marking the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static01.nyt.com/images/2024/06/27/multimedia/27stonewall-center-notebook-fpzc/27stonewall-center-notebook-fpzc-thumbLarge.jpg?auto=webp)
![Guests at a recent reception at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, in Greenwich Village, which makes its public debut June 28, Pride Day, marking the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static01.nyt.com/images/2024/06/27/multimedia/27stonewall-center-notebook-fpzc/27stonewall-center-notebook-fpzc-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg?auto=webp)
Fifty-five years after Stonewall, a new tourist center suggests that what the riots stood for is old history. But is everything now OK?
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Osgemeos Rocked Brazil. Can the Graffiti Twins Take New York?
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Dutch Fashion Designer Iris van Herpen Moves Into Art
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What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June
This week in Newly Reviewed, Martha Schwendener covers Jutta Koether’s moody expressionist paintings, Ina Archer’s “Black Black Moonlight: A Minstrel Show” and Susan Weil ‘s pastel “Spray Drawings.”
By Martha Schwendener, Jillian Steinhauer and
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The breakout character was initially envisioned as a monster. But when the filmmakers saw it wasn’t working, they found their way to a softer antagonist.
By Reggie Ugwu
Dr. Alex Arroyo, a director of pediatric medicine in Brooklyn, gets to live out his “Star Wars” dreams, practice jujitsu and make a big mess while cooking for his family.
By Sarah Bahr
The center marks the history of the Stonewall Inn and the uprising there in 1969 that inspired a new era of gay activism.
By Sarah Bahr
Explore a whiskey renaissance, tour the country’s oldest public library and brave a brisk sea dip in the Irish capital.
By Megan Specia
For Pride Month, we asked people ranging in age from 34 to 93 to share an indelible memory. Together, they offer a personal history of queer life as we know it today.
By Nicole Acheampong, Max Berlinger, Jason Chen, Kate Guadagnino, Colleen Hamilton, Mark Harris, Juan A. Ramírez, Coco Romack, Michael Snyder and John Wogan
The small house in Washington was designed to sit lightly on the land: It touches the ground in only six places, and they didn’t cut down a single tree.
By Tim McKeough
Amid challenges in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences renewed its chief executive’s contract a year early.
By Robin Pogrebin
American Ballet Theater brings Wayne McGregor’s “Woolf Works,” which evokes elements of three novels and the writer’s biography, to New York.
By Joshua Barone
The heat could not stop revelers from taking part in the pageantry of aquatic weirdness.
By Sean Piccoli
Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in grants that were approved by state lawmakers.
By Patricia Mazzei
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