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5.22.2009
GLBT Historical Society and First Artist-in-Residence Debut New Exhibit During Pride Week

Artist-in-residence E.G. Crichton dives into GLBT Historical Society archives to connect the living and dead for LINEAGE: Matchmaking in the Archive. E.G. Crichton, will debut her new project from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. on June 19, 2009 at the GLBT Historical Society’s Downtown Branch, 657 Mission Street #300. The exhibit opens on June 20, 2009 and runs through October 15, 2009.


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MILK Skimmed - What was left out of MILK?
A provocative GLBT Historical Society roundtable about what was left out of Gus Van Sant's movie. February 19, 2009 in San Francisco.

Free Comrades presentation by Terence Kissack
Reading on Wednesday, on July 30, 2008.

Polk Street talk by Susan Stryker
For the opening of the exhibit "Polk Street: Lives in Transition."

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Black Lesbians Display Their Sapphic History
B.A.R. coverage of ouDecemberr African-American Lesbian panel in early December.

Celebrating Horizons' grantees
Laura Rifkin and Marion Abdullah received grants from the Horizons Foundation for the Fabled ASP project sponsored by GLBTHS

B.A.R. Obituaries Go Online
The GLBT Historical Society launches the first Bay Area Reporter online searchable obituary database on December 1st, 2009 in honor of World AIDS Day.

20 Years Ago, Police Shut Down the Castro
(October 1, 2009)
Historical Society archives form foundation for Bay Area Reporter article. Panel on Sweep to be held by GLBTHS in November.

Recognizing Lesbian History in a Gay Men’s Dominated Movement
(September 10, 2009)
Board member Ruth Mahaney guides a tour of our Castro Street exhibit, Passionate Struggle.

Oral histories tell Polk Street's story
(August 8, 2009)
Article about Joey Plaster's Polk Street: Lives in Transition oral history project and exhibit at Good Vibrations.

What We Leave Behind: New narratives in a queer archive
(July 8, 2009)
Article about the E.G. Crichton's exhibit Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archive.

KQED Art Review of Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archive

(June 30, 2009)
A perfect match is an exciting idea, but an elusive reality.

Archives Go On A Blind Date at The GLBT Historical Society

(June 25, 2009)
The GLBT Historical Society unveiled its first artist-in-residence, E.G. Crichton, in a debut of her new project, “LINEAGE: Matchmaking in the Archive."

Shades of time: Q&A with Matt Keegan

(May 7, 2009)
Interview with Matt Keegan about his show Postcards and Calendars and he talks about the influence of the GLBTHS's collection on his show.

Article about Matt Keegan Postcards & Calendars exhibit at Altman Siegel Gallery
(April 27, 2009)
Article about Postcards & Calendars exhibit, which includes calendars from the GLBT Historical Society.

GLBTHS pieces in the Altman Siegel Gallery's current show
(April 25, 2009)
Matt Keegan’s current show at the new Altman Siegel gallery features calendars from the GLBT Historical Society's collection.

Got Milk: Seeing the late Harvey Milk's San Francisco
(March 22, 2009)
There's a new kind of tourist in San Francisco's Castro district, the neighborhood that's billed as the gayest in the world. (read more)

The rise and fall of a Polk Street hustler
(March 18, 2009)
Last June, a small group of costumed 20-something activists from Gay Shame ... held a "séance" on Polk Street to "summon the ghosts of Polk Street's past."(read more)

Oral history project chronicles a changing San Francisco neighborhood
(Spring 2009)
When Coy Ellison ran away from an abusive home in the late 1970s, he found in San Francisco’s Polk Street a sense of community and family he never grew up with. (read more)

Springtime in Paris with Harvey Milk

(March 5, 2009)
Milk opens in France this week and the Nouveau Latina will have a month-long exhibit cosponsored by GLBT Historical Society in the theater's gallery. (read more)

Profile in Ministry: Expanding the Definition of an LGBT Advocate
(March 4, 2009)
Rev. Megan Rohrer was recently featured in the exhibit, Polk Street: Lives in Transition (read more)

Milk legend on everyone's lips
(March 2, 2009) The Paris opening of "Milk" - at the Nouveau Latina in the Marais - is Wednesday. Gerard Koskovich says the San Francisco GLBT Historical Society has created an exhibition that will be up for a month in the lobby of the theater and will include photos, ephemera and political buttons from his own collection. (read more)

Milk Money for School
(February 27, 2009) Glicker's extensive research into Milk and his milieu included hands-on visits to the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. (read more)


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