Cupid's Back: Our Fourth Annual
Valentine's Day Party!
Friday, February 12th
8:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.
Robert Fountain's Studio
80 Missouri St.
PG&E and the GLBT Historical Society will host our annual Cupid's Back Valentine's extravaganza, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
at a private party at Robert Fountain's Studio.
The party will include
an open vodka bar with drinks sponsored by Devotion Vodka. Our other
sponsors are Peroni Beer, Red Bull, and 7x7 Magazine. This year we have a stretch limo that will shuttle guest from the Castro to Potrero Hill and back.
Tickets are $25 online in advance at www.cupidsback.kintera.org/2010, or $30 at the door.
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Women's Committee Presents an Event Celebrating Black Female Heritage
 Saturday, February 13th
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
657 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA
Learn more about our Queer Sistern who created paths for us to safely traverse and gave voice to our truths! Highlighting the lives of...
Angela Weld Grimke - Harlem Renaissance Poet & Writer, Pat Parker - Poet & Community Activist, Audre Lourde, & Angela Davis
FEATURING
· An exhibit of Queer Black Women who have made local and/or national contributions to Queer Rights
· A film about the life of Pat Parker with archival footage of Ms. Parker
With performances by Sista Cypher, Sauda Birch
Rashida Mwongozi, Suzanne Massey, Kymberly Jackson, DJ Ryan
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"Suppressed, Silenced, and Shunned:
The Story of the Pink Triangle in Hitler's Reich"
 Dr. Susan Eischeid will present this public lecture.
Thursday, March 4th
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
657 Mission Street,
San Francisco, CA Please also join us for the world premiere of new art
commemorating the homosexual victims of the Holocaust and a special concert
honoring their memory on Saturday, March 6th, at 8:00 p.m. at
Old First Concerts
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA
94109
Call (415) 474-1608 for information.
$17.00 general admission; $14.00 seniors/students.
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Developments on Our New Exhibit in the Castro
 After a delay of several months, the GLBT Historical Society recently
received a renewed offer from the Walgreens Corporation to lease us a
storefront for a new Castro exhibit.
This storefront is on 18th Street, right off Castro
Street in San Francisco. It's twice as large as our previous Castro Street exhibit, and would allow us to increase our programming substantially. The proposed lease would be for five years, with rent
substantially lower than market rate. It is a very generous offer.
Walgreens and the Historical Society are endeavoring to move quickly to
obtain permits and begin construction. We hope to open an exhibit
early this summer. The details of this proposal are still being
finalized.
However, one thing is certain: a five-year lease and new exhibit represent a
major commitment for the organization. We must make sure we can
undertake this expansion while still maintaining our primary commitment to preserve the archives.
These developments have occurred in the last few weeks and
days, so we are still finalizing the specifics of how we will proceed.
But this is excellent news. Because of
the strong interest among our supporters for a new Castro exhibit, we wanted to share it with you immediately.
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Picture of the Month
Based on a famed 1894 poster by Will Bradley, dean of American graphic artists,
Love Needs Care, published by the
Society of Individual Rights (S.I.R.),
perfectly captures the style and spirit of psychedelic San Francisco in the late 1960s and early
1970s.
Founded in 1964, S.I.R. soon became the largest homophile organization
in country, opening the nation's first gay community center in 1966.
It
supported its members in many ways: its Political Committee worked for civil rights
for gays, and its Social Committee sponsored bowling nights, discussion groups,
dances, and other events as an alternate to the bars, baths, and
bushes.
S.I.R.'s Community Services Committee, which created this poster,
produced and distributed materials to educate gays about sexually transmitted
diseases and other public health issues. The group disbanded in 1978.
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Ongoing at the GLBT Historical Society
New Research Hours:
Wednesday - Fridays: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., by appointment only.
Saturdays: open to the general public 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Museum Hours:
657 Mission Street, Suite 300,
Tuesdays - Saturdays: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.:
Main Gallery: Relaunch of Passionate Struggle
- Second Gallery: African American Lesbian Publications, and Keepin' On: Images from African American Lesbians
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FEBRUARY
HISTORICAL MOMENTS
February 1. 1942
A new German law formally extends
the death penalty to any man found guilty of having sex with another man.
February 4, 1915
Speaking in Chicago, Edith Lees Ellis, openly lesbian
wife of Havelock Ellis, exhorts women to begin "organizing a new love
world."
February 7. 1977
The U.S. State Department
announces it will begin considering job applications from lesbians and gay men
-- previously disqualified from this employment opportunity because of their sexual orientation -- for employment in
the Foreign Service and other international agencies.
February 16, 1991
OutRage! organizes a gay and lesbian kiss-in
at London's Piccadilly Circus to protest the section of the Sexual Offences Act
that makes public displays of affection between men illegal. (As of 2010, OutRage is the world's longest-surviving queer-rights direct-action group.)
February 21, 1903
New York City police conduct the
first known raid on a gay bathhouse, the Ariston on West 55th Street. Of the 26 men arrested,
12 are tried on sodomy charges and 7 receive sentences that range from 4 to 20 years in prison.
February 23, 1990
A group of Taiwanese women form
Women Chih Chian (Women Among Us), the first lesbian organization for Chinese-speaking
women in Asia.
February 29, 1988
Canadian MP Svend J. Robinson
comes out in both French and English on national television -- making him his country's first openly gay or lesbian member of Parliament.
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February 2, 1859: Havelock Ellis,
psychologist
February 5, 1848: J. K. Huysmans, writer
February 6, 1899: Ramón Novarro, actor
February 11, 1845: Ahmed Tevfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt
February 19, 1917: Carson McCullers, novelist and playwright
February 10, 1893: William "Big Bill" Tilden, world tennis athlete
February 21, 1907: W. H. Auden, poet
February 22, 1844: Felice Picano, writer
February 26, 1879: Mabel Dodge Luhan, memoirist
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