Tag: GLBT Historical Society
Project Makes Historic LGBTQ Newspaper Available Online
An initiative to put the full contents of the longest-running continuously published LGBTQ weekly in the United States online has reached its first milestone with the posting of five years of historic back issues.
New Project to Gather Oral Histories on San Francisco AIDS Activism
The GLBT Historical Society has launched a new oral history project under the guidance of historian Joey Plaster to chronicle, preserve and share the history of ACT UP/San Francisco and other AIDS direct-action groups in the city from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s.
SF Board Supports New LGBTQ Museum
The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco voted on the evening of Tuesday, January 31, to approve a groundbreaking resolution calling on municipal authorities, philanthropists and business leaders to support the GLBT Historical Society’s efforts to develop a new LGBTQ museum and public history centre in the city.
City of San Francisco Asks: Can GLBT Museum Donors Meet the Challenge?
The City of San Francisco has issued a challenge to the GLBT Historical Society in the form of a $17,000 matching grant to support The GLBT History Museum, the stand-alone museum that the society operates in the city’s Castro District.