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LGBTQ History Month: Corinne known for her photos of lesbian sexuality

LGBTQ History Month: Corinne known for her photos of lesbian sexuality

  • by Victoria A. Brownworth
  • Oct 27, 2021

Over her decades as a lesbian photographer and artist, Tee Corinne had said, "I'm one of the most obscure famous artists."

LGBTQ History Month: Pauli Murray was an architect of history

LGBTQ History Month: Pauli Murray was an architect of history

  • by Victoria A. Brownworth
  • Oct 20, 2021

Some say Pauli Murray is the most important American activist you've never heard of.

LGBTQ History Month: Snapshots showcase life in queer, 1970s San Francisco

LGBTQ History Month: Snapshots showcase life in queer, 1970s San Francisco

  • by John Ferrannini
  • Oct 20, 2021

The California Historical Society is digitizing photos of early LGBTQ Pride parades, SOMA leather bars and the Castro and Polk neighborhoods that it rediscovered in its archives. But background on the photographers is hard to come by.

LGBTQ History Month: Pro baseball player Glenn Burke refused to live a lie

LGBTQ History Month: Pro baseball player Glenn Burke refused to live a lie

  • by Ray Simon
  • Oct 13, 2021

You could say that Glenn Burke, the first Major League Baseball player to come out, is having a good season.

LGBTQ History Month: Florida LGBTQ museum launches major digital exhibit

LGBTQ History Month: Florida LGBTQ museum launches major digital exhibit

  • by J.W. Arnold
  • Oct 13, 2021

A new digital exhibit at the Stonewall National Museum and Archives, "In Plain Sight," offers website visitors a digital timeline of LGBTQ achievements — including 800 entries across 10 categories.

LGBTQ History Month: Dutch gay man defied the Nazis and saved thousands

LGBTQ History Month: Dutch gay man defied the Nazis and saved thousands

  • by Victoria Ebner
  • Oct 6, 2021

In the final days before his execution in July 1943 at the hands of the Nazis, Willem Arondeus asked his lawyer for one last request: to spread a message after he was gone.

LGBTQ History Month: Until legal ruling, Disneyland banned same-sex dancers

LGBTQ History Month: Until legal ruling, Disneyland banned same-sex dancers

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Oct 6, 2021

Deemed the "Happiest Place on Earth" Disneyland sadly didn't live up to that billing for same-sex couples during its first three decades.

South Bay queer activism focus of new exhibit

South Bay queer activism focus of new exhibit

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Jun 23, 2021

Silicon Valley's LGBTQ community and others will be able to take a trip back in time this Pride weekend with a new historical exhibit about the region's history.

50 years in 50 weeks: 1981's AIDS editorial

50 years in 50 weeks: 1981's AIDS editorial

  • by BAR staff
  • Jun 16, 2021

The Bay Area Reporter first mentioned what became HIV/AIDS about a month after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's notice on June 5, 1981.

LGBTQ Agenda: 'Queer Serial' podcast begins final season

LGBTQ Agenda: 'Queer Serial' podcast begins final season

  • by John Ferrannini
  • Apr 13, 2021

The final season of a podcast about the history of the LGBTQ rights movement will conclude with an episode about Stonewall that drops on June 28, the 52nd anniversary of the riots — and will precede a forthcoming podcast about Harry Britt.

LGBTQ History Month: The intersection of LGBTQ history and disability

LGBTQ History Month: The intersection of LGBTQ history and disability

  • by Victoria A. Brownworth
  • Oct 28, 2020

Disabled people have long been invisible from history, and unsurprisingly, disabled LGBTQ historical figures too have been hidden.

LGBTQ History Month: SF planners aim to prioritize LGBTQ historic landmarks list

LGBTQ History Month: SF planners aim to prioritize LGBTQ historic landmarks list

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Oct 28, 2020

Four years ago San Francisco planners released a list of nine LGBTQ historically significant sites they were eying to name as local landmarks.

LGBTQ History Month: SF house includes Joplin, Log Cabin Republicans in its history

LGBTQ History Month: SF house includes Joplin, Log Cabin Republicans in its history

  • by John Ferrannini
  • Oct 21, 2020

The day Peggy Caserta took acid for the first time changed her life — and that of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood — forever.

San Francisco slow to landmark LGBTQ sites

San Francisco slow to landmark LGBTQ sites

  • by John Ferrannini
  • Oct 14, 2020

With LGBTQ History Month underway, Castro neighborhood leaders are discussing how best to preserve the heritage of the city's most visible queer neighborhood.