California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation today that would require state schools in include gay history in the curriculum. "The legislation, authored by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, was approved in the Legislature along party lines, with Democrats in favor and Republicans opposed. The governor's office announced this morning that Brown had signed the bill," reports Sacramento Bee. This would include queer studies, if you will, into social sciences along with education about "disabilities and members of other cultural groups." more ›

The GLBT Historical Society, whose home is in S.F., just opened the nations's first GLBT History Museum at 4127 18th Street, in what was formerly a retail and laundromat space. The Society previously had a temporary exhibit up last year in a space at the corner of 18th and Castro, featuring artifacts and documents from their archives ranging from costumes and campaign paraphernalia belonging to drag queen-turned-activist Jose Sarria, to a suit belonging to Harvey Milk, to naughty limited edition board games from the 70s. more ›

Timecapsule: October 31, 1963 more ›