SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A Care2 petition is asking San Francisco to rename Myrtle St. in the Tenderloin after Bubbles, beloved LGBTQ DJ and nightlife personality who was fatally shot in the Tenderloin Saturday. The petition has gathered over 700 signatures. Bubbles, aka Anthony Torres, was fatally shot Saturday morning at around 3 a.m. on…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A new multimedia exhibition opening Oct. 6 at the GLBT History Museum explores the story of OUT/LOOK, a groundbreaking national queer quarterly published in San Francisco from 1988 to 1992. Embracing gender and racial diversity and bridging academic and community perspectives, the magazine developed an avid readership. The show and its associated…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — “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 June 9 at the GLBT History Museum. The subjects are individuals who have contributed to the diversity of San Francisco’s cultural landscape in such fields…
SAN FRANCISCO — When San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk took his bullhorn and rallied crowds at the intersection of Market and Castro Streets in San Francisco, he inspired a generation and helped forge the LGBT civil rights movement, and now steps are underway to make this hallowed ground a fitting tribute to both Milk and the…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. –Thirty-two years ago, a band of queer history enthusiasts created the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco to uncover and preserve stories of the LGBTQ past. Six years ago, the society opened the doors of the GLBT History Museum in the Castro, the first stand-alone museum of its kind in the United…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–Assemblymember David Chiu (D-San Francisco) Friday joined San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, state and local legislative colleagues, and immigration attorneys and advocates to announce the Immigrant Tenant Protection Act of 2017 in San Francisco’s Mission District. Assembly Bill (AB) 291 strengthens state law to protect immigrant tenants from intimidation and retaliation in their…
SAN FRANCISCO — The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco voted on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 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 center in the…
SAN FRANCISCO — A new exhibition at the GLBT History Museum will feature the work of cartoonist Fran Frisch as a starting point for exploring the history of the bear community, a subculture that developed in the 1980s to celebrate older, larger, hairier, ruggedly masculine gay men who had been largely excluded from standards of…
SAN FRANCISCO — Queer Arab-American public interest attorney and musician Nyla Moujaes is no stranger to the courtroom. But today (Dec. 12), she will pursue social justice in a new role – as a plaintiff in a civil rights and police misconduct trial in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California – Oakland Division. A lawyer…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — For decades, Spanish speakers in many parts of the Western Hemisphere recognize the word ambiente — literally meaning “atmosphere” or “environment” — as a coded reference. Queer Latinas and Latinos have used the word to identify themselves, their distinctive cultures and their spirit of resistance. The term is at the heart of…
