FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — For more than five decades, the Stonewall National Museum, Archives and Library in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has chronicled the LGBTQ+ community by collecting and sharing its history.

But the museum, one of the country’s oldest such institutions, is facing a hostile political environment and a financial crisis that may force it to find another home.

The organization has been hampered by recent budget shortfalls that Robert Kesten, its president, attributed to President Donald Trump’s ongoing crackdown on diversity programs and anti-LGBTQ+ policies led by Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Corporations have also pulled back on sponsorships for national LGBTQ+ groups like the Stonewall museum, which began as a small collection in 1973.

Named for the 1969 uprising in New

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