Location,   Location,   Location

Ask someone where the National LGBTQ History Museum is located, and he/she/they or ze will probably tell you it’s in San Francisco, the birthplace of rainbow flags and free love. That’s not the case. There isn’t a Smithsonian-esque LGBTQ history museum anywhere — yet.

Separate conversations are happening in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Fort Lauderdale and London to establish world-class LGBTQ history museums in those cities. San Francisco is an obvious candidate as well — but the city’s limited real estate stock is proving to be an impediment to the development of an LGTBQ museum, especially for proponents who’d like to see it placed in America’s best-known