A museum in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has something the Smithsonian in Washington wants: a gavel.
Sitting in a glass case at the Stonewall National Museum & Archives is the very gavel that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used to mark the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in 2010. It was donated to the Stonewall by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who received it from Pelosi.