The GLBT Historical Society's June Events
Were a Success!
Thank you to everyone who helped make this year's month of June proud and successful! Over 1,200 visitors from around the world passed through our exhibit at 18th and Castro streets, Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History. We hosted eight community receptions, including the Gay Liberation Front's 30-year reunion. Hundreds of students received docent-led tours of our Castro exhibit.
 The GLBT Historical Society was pleased to host "Get Your Wheel On," the opening reception for Fabled ASP (Fabulous/Activist Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities: A Storytelling Project). The event brought in hundreds of new friends of the GLBT Historical Society and included poetry, music, and comedy by queer disabled performers and friends.
On June 11th and 12th, our archive came to life at the Into The Streets! readings, hosted by Michelle Tea (see article below).
 On Friday, June 19th, the GLBTHS proudly unveiled our newest exhibit in the downtown main gallery, Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archive. Attendees enjoyed performances by Lauren Crux, Don Tatro, and Camille Norton.
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Into The Streets! Packs SOMArts
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Thursday and Friday, June 11 and 12, a packed house at SOMArts
watched and listened as writer, spoken word artist, and arts organizer
Michelle Tea, along with eight other performers, re-imagined moments from past queer
street protests. The two evenings were part of this year's Queer Arts Festival. The Creative Work fund provided a grant for this collaboration between Tea and the Historical Society--a collaboration that culminated with Into the Streets.
Tea curated the two-night event,
which featured Meliza Banales, Justin  Chin, Annie Danger, Myriam Gurba,
Keith Hennessy, Juba Kalamka, Ali Liebegott, and Eileen Myles. The artists chose only historical events for their re-imaginations, such as the
1966 riot at Compton's Cafeteria and the White Night Riots of 1979. The artists showed how each event illuminates and helps to contextualize contemporary struggles facing queer activists. Their presentations were
both moving and funny. The Historical Society looks forward to more
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Lineage Exhibit Opening Reception
Over 80 people gathered on Friday, June 19th for the opening reception and performances for the exhibit Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archives. See more photos >>
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Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History
 Passionate Struggle explores the elements and dynamic tensions between desire and determination that created San Francisco's very queer 20th century. Focused through four lenses--Places, Politics, Pleasures, and People--the exhibit vividly presents the City's gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender history in all its diversity.
Among the many exhibit items is What Color is Your Handkerchief: A Lesbian S/M Sexuality Reader. Published by Samois in 1978, it vividly exemplifies GLBT communities' growing sense of social and sexual liberation during the late 1970s.
Exhibit hours:
Monday - Saturday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Sundays: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.
499 Castro Street, San Francisco
Click here for more information
Admission is $3. No charge for current members of the Historical Society.
Admission is free the first Wednesday of every month.
Additional materials about our women's communities and their political, social, and cultural achievements are in the collections of the GLBTHS archives.
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Ongoing at the GLBT Historical Society
Research Hours:Tuesdays - Fridays by appointment only.Saturdays: open to the general public 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Museum Hours:At499 Castro Street, Mondays - Saturdays 12 p.m. - 8 p.m.and Sundays 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.:
- Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History
Admission to Passionate Struggle is free the first Wednesday of every month.
And at
657 Mission Street, Suite 300,Tuesdays - Saturdays 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.:
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Picture of the Month
 Members
of our GLBT communities have served in the United States military at
least since George Washington appointed Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
to be inspector general of the Continental Army in 1778. As the men of
Col. Stewart's Regiment sang more than 140 years ago when they marched
into battle during the Civil War,
We're the boys that's gay and happy,
Happy in the tented field;
With our nation's banner o'er us
And its honor for our shield.
We're the gay and happy Suckers,
From the State of Illinois;
Waiting till our Colonel orders
Us to flog the Rebel boys. |
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HISTORICAL MOMENTS 
July 1, 1919Magnus Hirschfeld opens the Institute of Sexual Research in Berlin.
July 2, 1981
The New York Times publishes its first story about a mysterious disease that will later be named AIDS.
July 7, 1992
Some fifty activists attend the first public meeting of the Lesbian Avengers in New York City.
July 9, 1928
Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness is published in Paris and appears in book stalls--becoming the first major novel written in English with an explicitly pro-lesbian theme.
July 10, 1972
The city council of Ann Arbor, Michigan, passes the first comprehensive gay and lesbian municipal rights ordinance in the United States.
July 13, 1984
Brothers, the first American television show with an openly gay lead character, premiers on the Showtime cable network.
July 15, 1975
Santa Cruz County, California, becomes the first in the United States to outlaw job discrimination against gay men and lesbians.
July 25, 1985
A spokesperson for Rock Hudson acknowledges that the actor is suffering from AIDS, marking a turning point in public awareness of the disease and galvanizing support for efforts to fight it.
July 27, 1982
At a meeting convened by the Centers for Disease Control, representatives of various gay, government, and health organizations agree to use the term "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome," or AIDS, to describe the mysterious disease reaching epidemic proportions among gay men in the United States. |
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JULY BIRTHDAYS
July 5, 1879: Wanda Landowska, musician, scholar, and wit
July 8, 1894: Dorothy Thomson, writer and radio commentator
July 10, 1871: Marcel Proust, novelist
July 11, 1946: Jack Wrangler, performer
July 13, 1879: Amelda Sperry, American anarchist
July 16, 110 CE: Antinous, consort of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who later deified him July 21, 1614: Sixtus IV, pope
July 23, 1836: Charlotte Cushman, actor
July 25, 1844: Thomas Eakins, artist
July 27, 1940: Troy Perry, religious leader and activist
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