Arts & Entertainment Original Pride Flag to Be Displayed In Ireland In Honor of First Permanent LGBTQ Exhibit at Cork Museum A fragment of San Francisco’s original 1978 rainbow Pride flag will go on display in Cork, Ireland for four months this summer, coinciding with the opening of the local public museum’s first permanent exhibition dedicated to LGBTQ+ history.
Arts & Entertainment City to Buy Barry's Building In the Castro, Will Make It the GLBT Historical Society Museum What was once the popular Tower Records building at Market and Noe streets has just been bought by the city, and its upper floor will be home to the museum and archive for the GLBT Historical Society.
Arts & Entertainment The Castro's Renowned GLBT Historical Society Museum Now Open to the Public Over the past few days, many of San Francisco's bastions for arts and culture have started to emerge from their SIP-spun chrysalises, welcoming the public back into their hallowed halls — and The Castro's beloved GLBT Historical Society Museum is among one of them.
Arts & Entertainment GLBT Historical Society and SFAC Galleries To Display '50 Years of Pride' Exhibit, Digitally To commemorate San Francisco Pride’s golden anniversary, the GLBT Historical Society and SFAC Galleries are partnering to bring "50 Years of Pride," a collection of 100 photographs taken over the five decades of SF Pride, to the masses — completely free and available online.
SF News How You Can Support San Francisco's Queer Elders and LGBTQ+ Nightlife Workers in the Age of Coronavirus Public health emergencies tend to expose the cracks in our society — this time, particularly, around our ability to help SF’s queer elders and those who make a living in the city’s gay nightlife scene amidst times of crisis. In the age of COVID-19, here’s how you can support those two local cohorts.
Arts & Entertainment Facebook Censors Reject Completely Tame Folsom Street Fair Ad, Then Reverse Themselves Some more anti-Facebook LGBTQ outrage erupted late last week when the GLBT Historical Society had a totally safe-for-work, entirely tame ad they wanted to post seeking volunteers for their booth
Arts & Entertainment Queens Of The 'Imperial Court': Rediscovered Photos From '70s SF Drag Balls "Coming Out," Joey Plaster tells 48 Hills, "originally referred to the act of being formally presented at drag balls that gay men patterned on respectable debutante balls." And in
Arts & Entertainment Archival Video Moment: Nightly News Explores Gay S.F. Circa 1981 We just got sent this video in connection with a party happening tonight at Public Works called SPKR: Evolution of the Queer Dancefloor -- it's a benefit for the GLBT Historical Society
SF News America's First Gay Museum Opens In Castro 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.
