The White House installs an exhibit with LGBTQ artifacts & history for Pride Month

The Ground Floor Corridor illuminated in Pride colors and featuring LGBTQ artifacts.
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The White House has installed an exhibit dedicated to “celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2021” on the Ground Floor Corridor.

The exhibit is the first physical display of historical items dedicated to the LGBTQ community, borrowing from the Smithsonian Institution and in partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum on American History.

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The exhibit features artifacts from historic LGBTQ community figures like Harvey Milk, Marsha P. Johnson, and Jerame Davis, the former executive director of National Stonewall Democrats. Davis is married to LGBTQ Nation‘s Editor-In-Chief, Bil Browning.

Another figure highlighted in the exhibit is Rose Cleveland, who was the sister of the 23rd and 25th President, Grover Cleveland.

“Rose Cleveland, President Grover Cleveland’s sister, served in the role of White House hostess until his marriage in 1886,” the exhibit reads.

“For almost 30 years, Rose Cleveland maintained a romantic relationship with Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple. The women lived together in Italy from 1910, until Rose’s death from the Spanish flu in 1918.”

The exhibit notes that Rose and Evangeline..

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