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The Library After Hours: Love & Resistance

Join us at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building for the city’s most cerebral happy hour.

Celebrate the opening of the Library’s newest exhibition Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50 with a night of curator talks, trivia, special guests, and more as we explore the history of LGBTQ civil rights following the 1969 Stonewall Riots.

Love & Resistance will include:

• After hours access to the Library’s new exhibition Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50, featuring photographs, documents, ephemera and more that illustrate the themes of nightlife, love, activism, and the queer press.
• Copies of the exhibition’s accompanying book Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet Into the Stonewall Era—which includes photographs taken by Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies, with a foreword by Roxane Gay—will be on sale before its March 2019 publication date.
• Curator talks featuring exhibition curator Jason Baumann, the Library’s Susan and Douglas Dillon Assistant Director for Collection Development and Coordinator of Humanities and LGBT Collections
• Trivia with Making Gay History podcast host Eric Marcus
• Drag Queen Story Hour’s very first story time for adults
• Listening stations from the NYC Trans Oral History Project—a community archive devoted to the collection, preservation and sharing of trans histories, organized in collaboration with The New York Public Library
• Games, puzzles, and crafting highlighting the Library’s vast LGBTQ archive
• Music and beats by New York based multidisciplinary artist and DJ, SHYBOI
• ​Food & drinks available for purchase
• After hours access to beautiful NYPL spaces including the Rose Main Reading Room

21+ | ID required | #NYPLafterhours