Past Events
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LINEAGE: Matchmaking in the Archive Opening Reception |
Friday, June 19, 6-9pm
657 Mission Street #300
Free
LINEAGE, a project developed by E.G. Crichton as first Artist-in-Residence for the GLBT Historical Society, focuses on the collections of ordinary/extraordinary individuals who have died. E.G. is matching specific archives to living people who agree to develop a creative response. This project is building pair by pair, archive by archive, and will be exhibited as a traveling exhibition and a website. More info |
Collecting the Spectrum: Diversity Challenges in Queer Archives |
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June 18, 6:30-8:30 pm
657 Mission Street #300
Free |
Bay Area archivists explore hurdles faced in collecting materials of queer women, people of color, transpeople, and other marginalized groups, and how to overcome them. The panel will be moderated by Marjorie Bryer. Featured Panelists: Adán Griego, Rebekah Kim, John Otto, and Karen Sundheim.
Part of the GLBT Historical Society's 2009 program series, TALKING BACK: QUEER HISTORY FULLY EXPOSED.
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Polk Stories Listening Party: Empresses, Masquerades, Punk Priests, and Street Sweeps |
Thursday, June 18th, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
1217 Polk Street (between Bush and Sutter)
Free
Journalist and oral historian Joey Plaster presents audio stories from fifteen people who find their dreams and nightmares on San Francisco's Polk Street. Come for a sneak preview of stories Plaster is fashioning into an hour-long radio documentary with famed producer Jay Allison.
Audio focuses on the 1980s to the present and pays special attention to recent conflicts between established street-level populations and newer neighborhood and business associations. Presentation connected to the "Polk Street: Lives in Transition exhibit."
Sponsored by the GLBT Historical Society.
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INTO THE STREETS! |
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Thursday, June 11, 7pm and
Friday, June 12, 7pm
SoMarts Cultural Center
934 Brannan Street
Free |
The GLBT Historical Society, Radar Productions and the National Queer Arts Festival Present INTO THE STREETS! Nine Writers Re-imagine Queer Protest From ACT-UP to Queer Nation with Meliza Banales, Justin Chin, Annie Danger, Myriam Gurba, Keith Hennessey, Juba Kalamka, Ali Liebegott, Eileen Myles, Michelle Tea.
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Krip Salon: Reception for Fabulous/Activist Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities Project |
Sunday, June 7, 2-5pm
657 Mission Street #300
Free
Join us for a fabulous afternoon of poetry, music, and comedy by queer disabled performers as we thank our supporters and introduce the community to Fabled Asp, a project chronicling and celebrating 40 years of disability arts, activism and culture in the Bay Area. A fun filled event that is sure to leave you with a smile featuring Papa Dino in a Drag King and Burlesque performance, poetry by Dominika Bednarska, Patty Overland, Jill Lessing and music and comedy surprises. Food from La Mediterranee.
Co-sponsored by GLBT Historical Society and the James C. Hormel Center of the S.F. Public Library |
Gay Liberation Front 40: Where we were, where we are now |
Saturday, June 6, 2pm
SF Public Library Main Branch
Cosponsored by the San Francisco Public Library
Join a discussion with activists who were involved with radical, post-Stonewall queer groups, such as Gay Liberation Front (GLF), Radicalesbians, Dyketactics, Radicalqueens, etc. With Martha Shelley, Blackberri, Paola Bachetta, Merle Woo, and Steven F. Dansky. A discussion about the queer movement then and now, where we've come from and where we are. |
Reconstructing the Polk with Joey Plaster |
Tuesday, May 19, 6-8 pm
657 Mission Street #300
Curator Joey Plaster's GLBT Historical Society exhibit, "Polk Street: Lives in Transition," has sparked intense conversation about the stakes of dramatic neighborhood change for San Francisco's identity as a place of belonging for all GLBT people. Come hear Plaster describe his innovative process to piece together a groundbreaking history of marginal and mainstream voices that has won him national recognition. Check out this remarkable exhibit before it closes! “Reconstructing the Polk” is the second event in TALKING BACK: QUEER HISTORY FULLY EXPOSED, the GLBT Historical Society’s 2009 Speaker Series challenging us to appreciate the spectrum of our collective pasts and to actualize a more expansive future for all. |
Queers in the Hood:
Gay Men Write about their Neighborhoods
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Tuesday, April 28, 7pm
657 Mission Street #300
Co-sponsored by GuyWriters
A literary reading and open mic for all members of the GLBT community. Featuring Donald Currie on the Castro, Jaime Cortez on the Excelsior and Alan Miller on Oakland, we encourage any queer writer who has written something about their neighborhood to step to the mic for five minutes. |
Crafting Queer panel event: Unraveling the subversive future in women's craft tradition
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Friday, April 17
An intergenerational panel will examine the binaries and paradigms that shape mainstream thinking around this art form.
The panel will be moderated by Masha Rotfeld. Featured Panelists: Katie Kaapcke, Sandy Shepherd, Sherrill Crawford, and Miki Foster.
The event is free and open to the public and is at the GLBT Historical Society's main offices at 657 Mission St., Ste. 300.
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HOW EUREKA VALLEY BECAME THE CASTRO: A panel discussion on the history of the Castro District |
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Metropolitan Community Church (150 Eureka Ave.)
Free to Members of SFMHS, GLBTHS. $5 Suggested Donation for Non-Members
Learn about the history of the neighborhood through a slide show of historical images and the reminiscences of four renowned storytellers. For more information. |
Polk Street Stories Project
Street Families: Homeless Queer Youth in San Francisco
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co-sponsored by the California Historical Society
Wednesday, March 18, 6-8 p.m.
at the California Historical Society
678 Mission Street - San Francisco, CA
In "Street Families," oral historian and journalist Joey Plaster, and pastor and activist Megan Rohrer will explore the history of queer youth homelessness and male sex work, tracing from the Tenderloin and the Lower Polk from the 1960s to the present. In recent history, the neighborhood has included a large homeless population and over time the changing area has been subject to gentrification and new businesses, replacing the existing tone of the neighborhood and affecting personal histories. The Street Families presentation will include first hand accounts from Polk Street residents as told through audio clips, photographs, and those involved with the project and community.
Joey Plaster is a widely published freelance journalist with experience at The Nation, Alternet, and Z Magazine. He is the director of the Polk Street Stories Project, a historical study of San Francisco's Polk Gulch neighborhood. To learn more about the Polk Street Stories Project, supported by the California Council for the Humanities and sponsored by the GLBT Historical Society, visit the exhibition at the GLBT Historical Society, open through May of 2009.
Megan M. Rohrer is the Director of The Welcome Ministry, a ministry to the homeless and hungry in the Polk Gulch District. She has also worked on the leadership of several other non-profit organizations including, Pace e Bene, Trans March San Francisco, and Faithful Fools Street Ministry.
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Memorial and celebration of Martin Delaney's life and work
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Saturday, March 14, 2009, 4:30pm
Eureka Valley Recreation Center
100 Collingwood @ 18th Street
Castro District, San Francisco
You are invited to attend the civic memorial and celebration of life for Martin Delaney. Feel free to stop by and meet others who knew this great activist.
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The Fabric of Our Lives Panel Reception
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Saturday, Feb. 21, 2pm - 5pm
657 Mission Street #300
Join us for a panel reception of the exhibit The Fabric of Our Lives, which will feature a panel of women talking about the process of creating the components of this exhibit.
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MILK SKIMMED:
GLBT Historical Society Roundtable Talks Back in Tales Untold
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Thursday, February 19, from 6-8 pm
657 Mission Street #300
Milk is a powerful fable about human rights, self-invention, and a movement's proud vitality. "Milk Skimmed" will explore alternative stories. It will also speculate on what Milk tells us about queer representation in popular culture today.
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Cupid's Back 3rd Annual Valentine's Benefit @ Lime |
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.
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E.G. Crichton's Lineage Launches New Artist-in-Residence Program Reception |
Friday, January 23rd, 2009 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Jo Daly's notebooksOn Friday, January 23rd from 6-8pm, the GLBTHS will host a reception and visual presentation by E.G. Crichton on her Lineage project. E.G. will introduce the project, show some past archive related work and introduce a few collaborators.
Lineage focuses on the collections of ordinary/extraExecutive Director, Paul Bonebergordinary individuals who have died. E.G. is matching specific archives to living people who agree to spend time with the material and form a creative response in any medium. This project will build gradually, couple by couple, archive by archive, and will be exhibited at the Historical Society as well as other physical and online venues. Admission is free.
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The opening reception will be on January 15 from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m., beginning with a talk by historian Susan Stryker. At 7:00 p.m., the opening reception begins
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.
See photos of the reception and talk
See photos of setting up the exhibit
View the video of Susan Stryker's talk |
LGBT History Lecture: Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love |
Thursday - January 8, 2009 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
Latino-Hispanic Room B, Lower Level
Info: 415-557-4400
Professor Sheila Rowbotham, will discuss her definitive biography of Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), proponent of a "larger" Socialism and major figure in the beginning of British socialism and the very early history of the gay and lesbian freedom movement. Cosponsored by the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, the GLBT Historical Society and the Edward Carpenter Forum. All programs at the library are free. |
