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The Stonewall Library and Archives, a collection of gay-themed materials that was the subject of political controversy two years ago, celebrates its grand opening in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday.

The library collection has moved from the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, which is slated to be torn down for development, into a city-owned building at 1300 Sunrise Blvd. The new site, which the library moved into in January, is also home to a small county branch library and ArtServe.

Library visitors must be 18 to access the circulating materials, which include ''nothing you are not going to see at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. It's all gay-themed, nothing remotely objectionable,'' Rutland said.

Access to some of the adult research material is strictly monitored and requires signing up in advance to view it and explaining the purpose of viewing it.

''It's a very long and byzantine process to get into the research archives,'' Rutland said.