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Welcome
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Welcome
to this month's edition of History Happens, your source for the
latest news and events from the GLBT Historical Society.
From the Henri Leleu Collection (1997-13)
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| The Castro Exhibit is Open Now!
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We are thrilled to announce
that our newest exhibit "Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History" is now open to the public! This
exhibit explores the dynamic tensions between passion and struggle that
have forged San Francisco's very queer past century. Through four
lenses-Places, Politics, Pleasures, and People -this extraordinary show
invites you to take a peek into the world-renowned archives of the Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
Join us at 499 Castro Street (at the corner of 18th Street) from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week (except for holidays). Admission is $3. (No charge for current members of the
Society.)
Flickr photostream of event opening
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Hank Wilson 1947 - 2008 |
Photo by William Mercer McLeod http://www.williammercermcleod.com
Henry (Hank) Wilson was a longtime San Francisco LGBT rights activist and long-term AIDS activist and survivor. For thirty-five years, he played a pivotal role in San Francisco's LGBT history. He created or co-founded many key San Francisco groups and organizations including the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club, which became
the Harvey Milk Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Democratic Club; the Tenderloin AIDS Network, which became Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center; and a film festival that grew into the Frameline Film Festival. He began the AIDS Candlelight Vigil, which became the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial; the Committee to Monitor Poppers; ACT UP/Golden Gate, which became Survive AIDS; and many others. He also served several terms on the SF HIV Prevention Planning Council and the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) Community Advisory Board.
A memorial celebration will be held on Saturday, December 6, in the Castro neighborhood at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center, 100 Collingwood St. (at 18th St.), from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m.
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| Upcoming Events at the GLBT Historical Society
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Three authors, transgender and genderqueer, bring the this year's Passing on the Pen readings to a close this December. Join us for our upcoming events at 657 Mission Street #300 in San Francisco.
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 Jamison Greene writes and speaks eloquently about the various aspects, issues, and challenges of transgender and transsexual experience, especially those associated with the female-to-male transsexual process. His prizewinning monograph, Becoming a Visible Man was published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2004.
Julia Serano,Oakland-based writer,  spoken-word artist, and trans activist has published in several anthologies and written Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Seal Press, 2007).
 Tristan Crane co-created How Loathsome, "a graphic novel unlike any other," with Ted Naifeh. It presents a slice of queer city life previously unexplored. This graphic project, released in 2004, was nominated
for a GLAAD media award, and was recently named one of
the ten best books released last year in the field of
GLBT literature by The Advocate newsmagazine.
>>More on the reading series |
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The Polk Stories Project
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 A new exhibit is opening in main gallery, " Polk Street in Transition." Exhibit opens January 15. The opening reception will on January 15 from 6-8 pm which will include a talk by Susan Stryker.
This multimedia exhibit looks at the history of Polk Street through the lens of current neighborhood transition. It showcases the photographic portraits by Gabriela Hasbun, audio portraits by Joey Plaster, and artifacts from a diverse array of Polk residents.
For more information . . .
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| On the Town with the GLBT Historical Society
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 Legendary novelist, short-story writer and poet Dorothy Allison appeared at the November panel of Passing on the Pen. She spoke to a packed house about her struggles as a young working class lesbian to forge her identity as a femme and as a writer. She read an erotically-charged short story she had written for the publication On Our Backs straight from the historical society's archives as well as a passage from her long-awaited novel in progress.
Flickr photostream of the reading
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| The GLBT Historical Society
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Research Hours:
- Tuesdays - Fridays by appointment only.
- Saturdays open to general public 1 - 5 p.m.
The exhibit space is closed until January 2, 2009.
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This Month in GLBT History
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 Dec. 1, 1988: the
World Health Organization sponsors the first World AIDS Day.
Dec. 9, 2004: Canada's
Supreme Court says that the government can legally extend marriage rights to
same-sex couples.
Dec. 15, 1973: the governing board of the American Psychiatric Association votes to recommend
that homosexuality no longer be classified as a mental illness. Four months later, the association's full
membership approves the recommendation by a vote of 58 percent to 42 percent.
Dec. 18, 1984: the New York Film Critics' Award for best documentary of 1984 goes to The Times of Harvey Milk.
From the Crawford Barton Collection (1993-11)
Dec. 28, 1986: conservative activist Terry Dolan dies of AIDS at age 38 in Washington, D.C.
Dec. 31, 1990: the Centers for Disease Control reports that the death toll from AIDS has just
topped the 100,000 mark.
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