Celebrating future LGBTQ museum site

  • by BAR staff
  • Wednesday October 2, 2024
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Photo: Bill Wilson
Photo: Bill Wilson

Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman spoke outside the Market & Noe Center at 2280 Market Street Friday, September 27, as city officials and community leaders welcomed the future site of a freestanding LGBTQ history museum that is a project of the GLBT Historical Society. As the Bay Area Reporter was the first to report September 26, Mayor London Breed's administration will pay $11.6 million to purchase the building. Initially, the historical society will occupy the second floor. As the leases for the two first floor tenants expire, the goal is to see the museum expand into that space, officials said. Some of those who attended the community celebration were Breed; Roberto Ordeñana, a gay man who's executive director of the historical society; Suzanne Ford, a trans woman who is executive director of San Francisco; longtime gay and AIDS activist Cleve Jones; and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin. The supervisors have until November 30 to close the deal.

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