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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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New museum for GLBT Historical Society?

The GLBT Historical Society is soliciting funds to create a permanent LGBTQ Museum and Research Center. The museum is currently leasing space on 18th Street…

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Castro Street, then and now

Roy McKenzie has a fantastic article on Hoodline showing the Castro as it used to look in the early 1900s (back when the neighborhood was still…

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Video report of the Smithsonian’s LGBT collection

Earlier we reported that the Smithsonian is preparing a special exhibit of artifacts relating to LGBT history and pop culture, including items from the television…

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Items from the television show Will & Grace to be displayed at The Smithsonian.
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Smithsonian adding LGBT history

The Associated Press is reporting that the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., is adding papers, photographs, and other historical objects relating to LGBT history to…

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