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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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