The Twist Podcast #248: Listeners Christmas Gift Ideas, Billy Bob Beer Belly Joins the Show, and an Interview with Robert Kesten of the Stonewall National Museum

Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we hear gift ideas from Twist listeners, welcome new semi-regular contributor Billy Bob Beer Belly, and listen to an interview with Robert Kesten, Executive Director for the Stonewall Museum, Archives and Library.

Click to listen to the full interview with Robert Kesten, Stonewall National Museum

Listen in as I chat with Robert Kesten, Executive Director of the Stonewall National Museum, Archives, and Library in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. We talk about the need to preserve our history, the mission of the Stonewall Museum, and how we can sustain an awareness of our past and present in a way that informs our future.

About Robert Kesten

Robert Kesten (he/him/his) has worked globally promoting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and furthering democracy. This work has taken many forms including writing and producing an award winning documentary on learning about the Holocaust at the Concentration Camps in Poland, Working on the Ghanaian Constitution, coordinating and producing events leading to Ukrainian independence, producing events for the first AIDS day treatment center in the nation, pushing for the decriminalization of homosexuality in Ukraine (the first Soviet Republic to do so).

Kesten comes to Stonewall National Museum and Archives with national and international experience, taking ideas and bringing them to life. This position brings full circle his active engagement in the LGBTQ+ community and his commitment to using history as a tool to make sense and fashion a response to today and tomorrow.

About the Stonewall National Museum and Archives

MISSION

Stonewall National Museum, Archives, & Library is a safe, welcoming place that inspires and promotes understanding through collecting, preserving, and sharing the proud culture of LGBTQIA+ people of all stories, and their significant role in American society.

VISION

We will build and sustain a viable, solvent organization that is inspirational, educational, relevant, and accessible to future generations; recognized nationally as a leading, influential authority. We will be a leader in the collection, preservation, and accessibility of American LGBTQIA+ culture and history.

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