Category: USA – Pride & Event
New Exhibition Highlights 35 Years of LGBTQ Community Portraits by Lenore Chinn
“Picturing Kinship: Portraits of Our Community,” a new exhibition offering a 35-year overview of portraits in painting and photography by San Francisco artist Lenore Chinn, opens on June 9 at the GLBT History Museum.
GLBT History Museum Offers Free Admission on May 22 in Honour of Harvey Milk Day
The State of California annually marks Harvey Milk’s birthday, May 22, as a statewide day of significance. The GLBT History Museum will honour the occasion this year by offering free admission to all visitors throughout the day.
Fourth Global LGBTQI Human Rights Conference at World OutGames Miami 2017
Three-day conference gathers significant speakers and panelists from around the globe.
TLDEF Commemorates Transgender Day of Visibility
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund joins millions throughout the world in celebrating the Transgender Day of Visibility. Transgender Michigan Executive Director Rachel Crandall started TDOV in 2010 “to bring attention to the accomplishments of trans people around the globe while fighting cissexism and transphobia by spreading knowledge of the trans community.”
Celebrating and Reflecting on 10 Years of Admitting LGBTQ Rabbinical and Cantorial Students to The Jewish Theological Seminary
This Sunday, March 19th and Monday, March 20th, The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) will host a conference with the first openly gay JTS-ordained rabbis and prominent LGBTQ rabbis Gil Steinlauf, Benay Lappe, and Amichai Lau-Lavie to mark the 10-year anniversary of JTS admitting openly LGBTQ students to its rabbinical and cantorial schools.
Exhibition Offers “Groovy Gay Look” at San Francisco’s 1967 Summer of Love
This spring and summer, many San Francisco cultural organizations are sponsoring special events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Summer of Love. The GLBT History Museum is taking part by mounting a new exhibition set to open April 7: “Lavender-tinted Glasses: A Groovy, Gay Look at the ‘Summer of Love.”