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Often referred to as San Francisco's "queer Smithsonian," the GLBT Historical Society houses one of the world's largest collections of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender historical materials. The society's new GLBT History Museum is the first full-scale, stand-alone museum of its kind in the United States.

HARVEY MILK DAY May 22, 2012

Free admission to the museum all day; rare video clips of Harvey Milk from the GLBT Historical Society archives showing on the screen in the Main Gallery periodically throughout the day.

Sponsorships: To learn more about museum sponsorships, click here.

Membership & Donations: To become a member or make a donation, click here.

MUSEUM HOURS
Monday – Saturday: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Sunday: Noon – 5 p.m.

MUSEUM LOCATION
4127 18th St. • San Francisco

MUSEUM HOME PAGE
www.glbthistorymuseum.org

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Museum Store: Shopping Online

Looking for that perfect gift for the history buff in your life? Searching for the ideal mug to tastefully signal "Hey, I'm queer" at the office? Ready to buy a smart homo t-shirt for yourself — or even an LGBT-friendly apron for that backyard barbecue? The GLBT History Museum's new online store offers it all. To start shopping, click here.

Out of the Boxes and Onto the Net!

We're digitizing our amazing audiovisual collections and putting them on the Internet for you to see and hear. Check out our first offering, the entire run of the 1980s radio series The Gay Life. Click here.spacer

Sponsors

Presenting Sponsor

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Platinum Sponsors
Badlands & Toad Hall
Bob Ross Foundation
David R. Kessler, MD
Human Rights Campaign
Walgreens

Union Bank

Gold Sponsors
Al Baum & Robert Holgate
John Bell & Jason Spicer
Harvey's
Harvey Milk City Hall Memorial Committee
Honey Soundsystem
Bob Michitarian

2011: A Year of Accomplishments

The GLBT Historical Society and The GLBT History Museum marked 12 months of exceptional accomplishments in 2011. A four-page overview of our exhibitions, programs and activities at both the archives and the museum during the past year is now available. The report also offers a look at the initiatives we hope to undertake in the future with help from our donors and sponsors. To read the overview, click here.

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Read Our Current Newsletter

Upcoming Events at the
GLBT History Museum

Author Discussion
Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader

Thursday, June 7
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

spacer Gayle S. Rubin discusses her collection of groundbreaking essays, Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader, recently released by Duke University Press. A pioneering theorist and activist, Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the "The Traffic in Women," an essay that galvanized feminist thinking. In another landmark piece, "Thinking Sex" (1984), she examined how certain sexual behaviors are constructed as moral or natural and others as unnatural. That essay became one of queer theory's foundational texts. Along with such canonical work, Deviations features insightful writing on lesbian history, the feminist sex wars, the politics of sadomasochism, crusades against prostitution and pornography, and the historical development of sexual knowledge. Rubin's talk at the museum will focus in particular on her long involvement in queer public history in San Francisco and on the importance of LGBT archives. Rubin is associate professor of anthropology, women's studies and comparative literature at the University of Michigan and is a founding member of the GLBT Historical Society.   


Cosponsored by the
GLBT Historical Society

Queer Women of Color Film Festival
June 8 – 10

Novellus Theater
Yerba Buena Center
700 Howard St.
San Francisco

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Connect With Us

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Exhibitions & Programs

GLBT History Museum
4127 18th St.
San Francisco, CA 94114
Phone: (415) 621-1107

Archives, Reading Room &
Administrative Offices

GLBT Historical Society
657 Mission St., Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: (415) 777-5455
Fax:(415) 777-5576

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender Historical Society collects, preserves, and interprets the history of GLBT people and the communities that support them. We sponsor exhibitions and programs on an ongoing basis.

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