GAY RIGHTS PIONEER’S ARTWORK WILL GO ON PUBLIC DISPLAY FOR FIRST TIME EVER, RAISING FUNDS TO PRESERVE WORLD’S LARGEST LGBTQIA+ LIBRARY

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Posthumous Debut of Art from Elliot Tiber, a Zealous LGBTQIA+ Rights Advocate at the Start of the Gay Rights Movement, Credited with Saving the Woodstock Art and Music Festival, Expected to Draw Support, Fans and Funds for Stonewall National Museum, Archives and Library on Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

WHEN: THURSDAY JUNE 29TH 2023

(Stonewall Riots Anniversary)

WHERE: NEW RIVER FINE ART, 822 EAST LAS OLAS BLVD, FT LAUDERDALE

ABOUT ELLIOT TIBER:

Elliot Tiber lived a dual life - on weekdays as an openly gay man and successful interior designer in Greenwich Village. He was active in the gay community, socializing with many musicians, actors, poets, and writers, including Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams. On weekends Tiber lived as a straight man in Bethel, NY, to help his parents at their motel. In June 1969, he participated in the Stonewall Inn uprising, where gays and lesbians, tired of being harassed and targeted by the police, fought with the NYPD for six days, which many consider to be the start of the Gay Rights Movement.

A month later, Elliot learned that an art and music festival planned for the town of Wallkill, NY, had lost its permit just thirty days prior to the event’s start. Elliot possessed a permit and helped introduce the festival producers to Max Yasgur, the owner of a 600-acre dairy farm and the Woodstock Art & Music Festival was saved!

Although Elliot held two fine art degrees and studied with some of the best abstract expressionists in America, including Rothko, Reinhardt, and Motherwell, he never became famous for his own art, largely because he kept it secluded at home. In 2016, Tiber met Frank Gromling, a successful publisher and art gallerist, who promptly signed on to become his agent. Sadly,Tiber died three months later.

This fundraiser marks the first time Tiber’s art will be exhibited publicly. “In interesting times, art has a way of breaking through and reminding us of what is important,” said Robert Kesten, Executive Director of the Stonewall National Museum, Archives, and Library. “Here is an artist who has transcended those messages across various platforms, and we are indeed honored and privileged to be beneficiaries of this show and first public exhibition.

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