The day after Donald Trump’s win, the Leslie-Lohman Museum transformed its SoHo gallery into a refuge. Streams of visitors and staff alike sunk into comfy chairs, sipped hot tea, laughed, cried, and processed the news in one of the world’s few LGBTQ art museums, a haven that has survived over half a century of storms.

Sara Herschander

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