Welcome to the museum. Were at the prologue. Tonewall an uprising at a gay bar in new york city that propelled forward the modernday lgbtq movement. This is where they used the freedom of speech, the press, peat, assembly, religion, to really change society. Were going to washington around the corner and look at some artifacts from two of the earliest lgbt rights oarizati s organizations that rose up. Gay people could be arrested for showing affection in public, police prowled parks to arrest people seeking assignations there. This is when you saw social groups, when people are meeting in secret in their homes, largely, to talk about what its like to be a gale mass or a less by yay woman. Here you see some artifacts from the mattachine society, a matchbook passed on to people in Public Places people they thought were likeminded. Are you gale . I am, too. Lets talk about it. This is a legal book published. It gave them advice about what their rights were when dealing with the police. Ov