The GLBTHS focuses its collections on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer life in the wider San Francisco Bay area and Northern California. Our collections document the tremendous diversity of GLBT life, its sexual, social, political, economic, cultural, religious and spiritual dimensions.  It documents not only the lives of GLBT leaders, but ordinary people, organizations, and informal groups.  Examples of our holdings include personal papers, organizational records, photographs, t-shirts, buttons, art, erotica, ephemera and an extensive GLBT periodicals collection, one of the largest in the world.

We are always interested in assessing donations of all kinds for inclusion in our collections.  Currently, we would like to fill particular gaps in our holdings, and we seek materials documenting GLBT life prior to the 1970s, as well as GLBT people of color, lesbian and bisexual women of all social/cultural backgrounds, GLBT working class communities, and bisexual and transgender people of all time periods. Questions concerning donations should be directed to Rebekah Kim, Managing Archivists.

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