Memphis Proud: MoSH exhibit showcases local LGBTQ history

In 2019, Memphis native Brandon Allen, a White Station High School student, won the brand new distinction of homecoming royalty while wearing a sparkly gold dress. While assigned male at birth, Allen is gender-nonconforming and uses they/them pronouns.

But, because of Allen, the student body of White Station High School decided to eliminate the titles of homecoming king and queen.

Allen made national news because of the change; they are also featured in “Memphis Proud: The Resilience of a Southern LGBTQ+ Community,” a new exhibit at the Memphis Museum of Science and History (MoSH). The exhibit, running alongside “Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement,” a traveling exhibition created by the Newseum in Washington, D.C., is MoSH’s first LGBTQ exhibit.

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