Posted in Featured Story Gay Pride Historical Collections

Celebrating 50 Years of Pride

Left: Empress Doris X of the Imperial Court, 1975. Right, top two: Pride 1980. Right, bottom: Empress Jose Sarria, the Widow Norton, 1989. Photos courtesy…

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Posted in Featured Story Gay Bars & Clubs South of Market

The Stud to close after 54 years

The artist/nightlife collective owners have announced that The Stud, which lays claim to being San Francisco’s oldest gay bar, will not reopen at its current…

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Posted in Featured Story LGBT Activitists Marriage Equality Memorials

Phyllis Lyon (1924-2020)

Phyllis Lyon (right) and her wife, Del Martin, at their first wedding in 2004. Phyllis Lyon, the pioneering activist who cofounded the first lesbian rights…

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Posted in Featured Story Statistical Data

Please respond to the U.S. Census

Once a decade, the United States takes a census of everyone living in the United States. The population counts are then used to allocate Congressional…

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Posted in LGBT Political Leaders

Pete Buttigieg ends historic presidential bid

All images released to the public domain by the Buttigieg for America campaign. For nearly three weeks, Pete Buttigieg was the delegate frontrunner in the…

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Posted in Featured Story Gay Bars & Clubs Western Addition

New look at early gay life in the Fillmore

LEFT: Longbar 1952. credit: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library RIGHT: The Big Glass circa 1958. credit: San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Records   Our…

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Harvey Milk's official photo in the U.S. Navy
Posted in LGBT Political Leaders Military Service

Harvey Milk’s claims of dishonorable discharge for homosexuality prove true

Harvey Milk, the first openly-gay politician in San Francisco who was assassinated in 1978, often claimed to reporters that he had been dishonorably discharged from…

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Posted in LGBT Activitists

Posthumous pardon for Bayard Rustin?

[This article was updated on Feb. 5, 2020 to reflect Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to pardon Rustin and create a clemency initiative for others with…

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Posted in Fundraisers HIV & AIDS

Academy of Friends: 40 years of fundraising

In 1980, Kile Ozier threw a “small” Oscars viewing party: “just” 25 friends with champagne, fancy food, and plenty of glitz and glamour. His party…

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Posted in Community Organizations Fundraisers

GLBT Historical Society’s 35th Anniversary Party

Attention: This event has been cancelled. Per the organizers: Based on the latest recommendations from the San Francisco Department of Public Health regarding the spread…

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