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Preserving queer history with Kickass Queers and The Queercore Podcast

April 9, 2024 | by David-Elijah Nahmod

More often than not, queer history is either forgotten or rewritten until it bears little resemblance to what really happened. Now, two podcasts seek to set the record straight, so to speak, by telling our stories accurately.

Sacramento seeks public input on LGBTQ history

by John Ferrannini
Apr 3, 2024

The city of Sacramento is seeking the public's participation as it documents the state capital's queer history and preservationists write a historic context statement.

Search goes on in SF for LGBTQ history museum space

by John Ferrannini
Oct 25, 2023

Officials at the GLBT Historical Society want to bid on a proposal to secure and operate a full-scale, free-standing museum even though they don't have a site located.

LGBTQ HIstory Month: SF LGBTQ pioneers helped form the community

by Chuck Forester
Oct 25, 2023

That gay person at the Pride parade is the result of an unusual social experiment that started in 1970 in San Francisco.

LGBTQ History Month: Online archive features Gerharter's B.A.R. photos

by Matthew S. Bajko
Oct 25, 2023

Two decades ago the San Francisco Public Library purchased a portfolio of photos from longtime Bay Area Reporter photographer Rick Gerharter.

LGBTQ History Month: LGBTQ+ online dating was created for community

by Michele Zipkin
Oct 25, 2023

From casual hookups to friendships to meeting the love of your life, LGBTQ+ online dating was created out of a need for community.

Lyon-Martin friends group shelves bid to buy historic SF lesbian property

by Matthew S. Bajko
Oct 20, 2023

A group instrumental in preserving the two-story cottage once owned by lesbian pioneering couple Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin has determined it is unable to purchase the historic San Francisco property.

LGBTQ History Month: Queer couple seeks history of their Oakland home

by Heather Cassell
Oct 18, 2023

Joan Howard and Rebecca Longworth wish the walls could talk in their East Oakland home, which they discovered was once a working-class lesbian bar.

LGBTQ History Month: Golden State queer mecca is more than SF

by John Ferrannini
Oct 18, 2023

Queer history is not just in San Francisco. A raid at a gay bar in San Diego in 1979 helped galvanize the nascent LGBTQ community there, while Sacramento also has a rich past.

LGBTQ History Month: Dallas LGBTQ leader Harris looks back on history

by David Taffet
Oct 11, 2023

When George Harris and Jack Evans became the first same-sex couple to legally marry in Dallas County, they had already been together 54 years.

LGBTQ History Month: In its past, US women's group NOW purged lesbians

by Victoria A. Brownworth
Oct 11, 2023

The online National Women's History Museum describes Betty Friedan as "co-founder of the National Organization for Women" and "one of the early leaders of the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s."

LGBTQ History Month: History done 'The Dallas Way'

by David Taffet
Oct 11, 2023

Folks in Texas often have their own way of doing things, even when it comes to keeping track of history. And in Dallas' LGBTQ community that means preserving their history "The Dallas Way."

Political Notes: Black Cat Tavern, 1st California LGBTQ state landmark, receives its plaque

Oct 9, 2023

Across California are hundreds of sites designated as official state historical landmarks, from the homes of prominent individuals and locations of important businesses to religious structures and arts institutions.

LGBTQ History Month: Bayard Rustin stamp backers harness new biopic to press their case

by Matthew S. Bajko
Oct 2, 2023

For nearly a decade LGBTQ advocates have been calling on the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp honoring the deceased gay Black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.

LGBTQ History Month: In 1960s, drag found a home in San Francisco's Glen Park

by Matthew S. Bajko
Oct 1, 2023

During the 1960s most LGBTQ nightlife in San Francisco was centered in the northern neighborhoods of the city.

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