As one of the owners of the iconic Stonewall Inn, Stacy Lentz is both preserving the LGBTQ community's history and also working toward bettering its future. Pride50
Stacy Lentz will always remember the first time she walked into Henrietta Hudson, a lesbian bar in New York City's West Village neighborhood.It was 1994. She was 25 years old and “fresh off the boat from a cornfield in Kansas.”
Lentz felt isolated in Kansas because of her hometown’s lack of queer visibility. Yet, Henrietta Hudson offered her a sense of community. She said she images patrons of the Stonewall Inn — the historic bar she has co-owned for the past 12 years — felt this sensation ten-fold five decades ago, around the time of the now-famous 1969 Stonewall uprising.
The nonprofit promotes equality for the LGBTQ community through educational programming, awareness campaigns, fundraising and collaboration with other advocacy organizations. One of its current projects includes building the first LGBTQ center in Biloxi, Mississippi, where the state's"religious freedom" bill makes it legal for the government and businesses to deny services to same-sex couples.
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