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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.
Image Courtesy of Bill Lipsky
For Valentine's Day, we
bring you a sentimental greeting card of some 100 years ago. Both the
names and the exact nature of the two men's relationship has been lost to us.
Only their obvious affection for each other survives.
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The Fabric of Our Lives: Lavender Scrolls, Lesbian Quilting Project, Women's
Textiles and Tees
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 Exhibit Opening
Wednesday,
Feb. 17
1:00pm - 5:00pm
657 Mission Street #300
(Exhibit closes April 15th)
The
Lavender Scrolls preview begins Wednesday, Feb. 4 1:00pm - 5:00pm
The GLBTHS is proud to present The
Fabric of Our Lives. Join us for an opening day reception on Saturday,
February 21 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm, which will feature a panel of women talking about the
process of creating the components of this exhibit.
The
Fabric of Our Lives Exhibit is sponsored by the Women's
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Cupid's Back 3rd Annual Valentine's Benefit @ Lime
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Friday, Feb. 13th
10:00pm - 2:00am
Lime Restaurant
2247 Market St.
The "Cupid's Back" extravaganza will
take place in a private party at Lime Restaurant in
the heart of the Castro district.
Free appetizers and specially prepared cocktails will be served.
Pre-Sale Tickets: $25.00, Buy Tickets Now
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Community Drop Off Day
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Saturday, Feb. 7, 12pm - 5pm
499 Castro Street
The GLBT Historical Society will be collecting archival
donations at our Castro Street location (499 Castro) on Saturday, February 7,
from 12pm to 5pm.
Guidelines for Donations
Examples of our holdings include personal papers, organizational
records, photographs, t-shirts, buttons, art, erotica, ephemera and
GLBT periodicals. To learn more about the Archive.
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 Polk Street: Lives in Transition Now Open!
Historian Susan Stryker spoke to a standing room only
crowd on January 15 at the opening reception for "Polk Street: Lives in
Transition," the GLBTHS's new main gallery exhibit.
Video and Photos of the Opening
The multimedia exhibit is open through May 31, 2009, Tuesday through Saturday,
1:00pm to 5:00pm. at the GLBT Historical Society, 657 Mission Street #300.
For More Information on the Exhibit
Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History is open to the public! From
disco diva Sylvester's sequined pantsuit to the sewing machine Gilbert Baker
used to create the first rainbow flag to the doorman's hat from Finocchio's, Passionate
Struggle mixes the iconic with the unexpected to present one hundred
years of San Francisco's GLBT history in all its diversity.
Focused
through four lenses--Places, Politics, Pleasures, and People--this
extraordinary show explores the dynamic tensions between passion and struggle
that created San Francisco's very queer 20th century.
Castro Exhibit Hours:
12:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Wednesday - Saturday
12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Sunday
Admission is $3. (No charge for current members of the Historical Society.)
Flickr photostream of event opening |
| The GLBT Historical Society
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Research Hours:
Tuesdays - Fridays by appointment only.
Saturdays open to general public 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Museum Hours:
499 Castro Street
Wednesday - Saturday 12:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Sundays 12:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Admission is free the first Wednesday of every month.
657 Mission Street, Suite 300
Tuesdays - Saturdays 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
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This Month in GLBT History
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February 1, 1949
The Paris Prefect of Police issues a decree that forbids
men from dancing together in public.
February 4, 2004
The Massachusetts high court rules that only full and
equal marriage rights for gay couples, not merely civil unions, are
constitutional.
February 5, 1981
Toronto police raid four bathhouses, arresting 20 men as
"keepers of a bawdy house" and 286 men as "found-ins." The
action set a North American record for the number of men arrested for being gay in
a single police campaign.
February
6, 1989
The American Bar Association's House of Delegates
passes a referendum urging federal rights legislation for lesbians and gay men.
The vote: 251-121.
February 8, 1994
Meeting in Strasbourg,
France, the
European Parliament approves a resolution affirming a broadly defined gay and
lesbian rights agenda, including the right to marry. The next day, Pope John Paul II issues a statement condemning the action.
February
9. 1977
San Francisco hosts the world's first lesbian and gay
FILM festival.
February
10, 1976
Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury
becomes the first mainstream comic strip to feature a gay male character.
February
11, 1965
At the trial of the four people arrested at the Council
on Religion and the Homosexual's New Year's Ball in San Francisco, the judge orders members of the
jury to find the defendants not guilty. The decision is a turning point in the
homophile movement's fight for gay and lesbian civil rights.
February 12, 2004
City officials in San Francisco begin issuing marriage
licenses for same-sex couples and perform the first known civil marriages of
same-sex couples in the U.S. The mayor officiates at the first ceremony for
human rights activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. More than 80 couples wed
the first day.
February
23-24, 1933
Adolf Hitler's government begins its persecution of
homosexuals with directives closing gay and lesbian clubs, banning homophile
publications, and dissolving homosexual rights groups. On February 1, 1942, a legal amendment formally extends
the death penalty to men found guilty of having sex with each other.
February 25,
1982
Wisconsin becomes the first state to pass civil rights
protection for lesbians and gay men.
February 28,
1950
Testifying before the US Senate Committee on Expenditures
in the Executive Department, Undersecretary of State John Peurifroy reveals
that the majority of dismissals of State Department employees were based on
accusations of homosexuality. Three years later President Dwight Eisenhower
issues an executive order that bars homosexuals from being hired by the federal
government. The order subsequently is copied by many state and local
governments.
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