GLBTHS Archives Receive NHPRC Grant
 The GLBT Historical Society was awarded $131,868 from the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for a two-year project
that would preserve and make accessible 550 linear feet of GLBT records, or
fifty percent of the institution's unprocessed backlog. The GLBTHS will hire a
project archivist for the project, which will start on Oct. 1, 2010.
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GLBT Historical Society wins SF
Bay Guardian's Reader's Choice Award for Best Local Nonprofit
 The GLBT Historical Society is
proud to announce that we are the recipient of the SF Bay Guardian's Reader's
Choice Award for Best Local Nonprofit.
The SF Guardian's Best of the Bay
issue hit newsstands last Wednesday, July 28th. Click here for more information.
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GLBT Historical Society Featured on PBS "History Detectives"
 The GLBT Historical Society was featured on the PBS "History
Detectives" as they look into "Diana: A Strange Autobiography."
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GLBT History Museum Update
Demolition has been completed and build out on the space will begin this month. For more information, please visit the GLBT History Museum Website.
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Silver Anniversary Speaker Series Talk: Ericka
Huggins in Conversation with Ronald K. Porter
 Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD)
685 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA
Saturday, September 25th
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $10, GLBTHS Members: $5
In
celebration of our 25th anniversary we are holding a series of important
conversations across generations. As the first event in our Silver Anniversary
Speakers Series, we are proud to present activist, educator, former political
prisoner and leader of the Black Panther Party, Ericka Huggins, in conversation
with UC-Berkeley doctoral student, Ronald K. Porter. Ericka and Ronald will
discuss perspectives on queer history, the Black Panther Party's relationship
with the Gay Liberation Movement, sustaining activism, and promoting social
justice.
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Seeking Sponsors and Hosts for Silver Anniversary
Gala
 Enjoy a good party? Help make our biggest annual event a
success.
The Historical Society is seeking official sponsors and
hosts for our Silver Anniversary Gala, "Unmasked," which will be held
on Thursday, October 28. This special event will be held in the magnificent Green Room in
San Francisco's War Memorial Building. Attendance is expected to be about 400
people including twenty-five honored guests.
Sponsors ($1,000) receive 4 VIP tickets and Hosts ($500)
receive 2 VIP tickets. Both are acknowledged in all promotional materials.
Sponsors will also be thanked on the donor wall in the new museum.
For more information, please visit the Unmasked gala website
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Silver Anniversary Speaker Series Talk:
Bettina
Aptheker in Conversation with Ianna Owen - Save the Date
Thursday, October 21st, Time TBD
La Peņa Cultural
Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
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Remembering Gil Block
The GLBT Historical Society was saddened to learn of
the death of the great activist Gil Block. The GLBT Historical Society archives contain a
collection of materials donated by Gil including his famous "Sadie, Sadie the
Rabbi Lady" outfit. Mr. Block's obituary can be found here.
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Picture of the Month
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San Francisco's gay softball league,
the first in the nation, began informally in 1973 with eight local bars each
sponsoring a team. When other communities also formed associations, a gay world
series became inevitable. The first was held in the City on October 1977, when
New York's top team, the Ramrod, played the local champions, the Badlands, who
won. Today the SFGSL provides an organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, and straight participants to compete in an environment conducive
to our GLBT communities.
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Ongoing at the GLBT Historical Society
Wednesday - Fridays: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Call to make an appointment in advance: 415-777-5455 x3
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 ofPassionate Struggle
- Second Gallery: Man-i-fest: FTM
Mentorship in San Francisco from 1976-2009
*Last Day to View Downtown Exhibits: Saturday, August 14th, 2010.
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August 3, 1982
When a police officer enters Michael Hardwick's
Atlanta, Georgia home to serve him with a warrant for a traffic violation and
discovers him having oral sex with another male, Hardwick is arrested and
charged with sodomy. The case eventually reaches the U. S. Supreme Court as
Bowers v. Hardwick, which upholds the constitutionality the state's law that
criminalized oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when
applied to homosexuals.
August 11, 1995
South
Korea holds its first Pride Celebration, including a march, in Seoul.
August 12, 1833
After
Captain Henry Nicholas Nicholls, 50, is executed for buggery -- a capital
offense in Britain until 1861 -- an anonymous poet, in protest, writes and
circulates one of the earliest works to argue that the "inborn
passions" of men whose "predilection is for males" are normal
and natural:
Whence spring these inclinations, rank and strong?
And harming no one, wherefore call them wrong?
August 13, 1975
The
Advocate calls 1975 the "Year of the
Disco" because, across the United States and around the world, the dance clubs
have changed the face of the gay and lesbian subculture.
August 23, 1994
Australia's
federal government acts to overturn Tasmania's anti-sodomy law, the last in the
nation to penalize same sex relations.
August 31, 1979
Radical
Faeries stage their first major gathering.
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August 1, 1930 Lionel
Bart, musical theater composer of Oliver
and such popular songs as From Russia
with Love
August
6, 1927 -- Andy Warhol (nee
Andrew Warhola jr.), artist and filmmaker
August
8, 1961 Chris Freeman, bassist
and singer with the all gay rock band Pansy Division
Augus11,
1870
Liane de Pougy (nee
Anne-Marie de Chassaigne), courtesan
August
12, 1867 Edith Hamilton, classicist,
beloved partner of Dorothy Fielding Reid for 60 years
August 21, 1962
Jeff Stryker (nee Charles Casper Peyton), performer
August
24, 1957 Stephen Fry, comedian,
writer, actor
August 26, 1904 Christopher Isherwood, author and
playwright
August 28,
1825 Karl Heinrich Ulrichs,
lawyer, writer, first and only person in the 19th century to
publicly declare his homosexuality, father of the gay rights movement, author
of the first gay vampire story
August
29, 1956 Mark Morris, dancer
and choreographer, founder of The Mark
Morris Dance Group
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