FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Posters that read “Silence = Death” from the early years of the AIDS epidemic. A pair of sneakers signed by Ellen DeGeneres, who famously announced, “Yep, I’m Gay,” on the cover of Time. A gavel that repealed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

For more than five decades, the Stonewall National Museum, Archives and Library in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has chronicled the LGBTQ+ community by collecting and sharing its history.

But the museum, one of the country’s oldest such institutions, is facing a hostile political environment and a financial crisis that may force it to find another home.

The organization has been hampered by recent budget shortfalls that Robert Kesten, its president, attributed to President Donald Trump’s ongoing crackdown on diversity programs

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