Divas & Drinks: A Pride Event for Women happens June 24
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SF Mayor Unveils Long-Lost 1978 Rainbow Flag & Calls for New Museum
This photograph shows the priceless queer artifact that the GLBT Historical Society acquired in April: a segment of one of the two original rainbow flags first hoisted in San Francisco on June 25, 1978, for Gay Freedom Day. The flag was created by Gilbert Baker and hand-stitched and dyed with the help of volunteers and friends, including Lynn Segerblom (Faerie Argyle Rainbow), James McNamara, Glenne McElhinney, Joe Duran, Paul Langlotz and others. The society formally unveiled the flag to the public at a press event in San Francisco on June 4. Mayor London Breed; District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman; State Senator Scott Weiner; […]
Support new bill that will include LGBTQI ‘chosen family’ to get paid leave to care
Chosen families” are an important and central concept in the LGBTQ+ community. Our families often don’t look like the typical nuclear family. Many of our closest relationships might not be with our biological relatives, but with the friends and loved ones we’ve connected with since coming out. These are our chosen families who help us co-parent, care for us when we’re sick and on whom we rely. This year, as COVID-19 ravaged our communities, too many of us couldn’t afford to take time off work to care for the people in our lives who mean the most to us. That’s […]
San Francisco Giants to honor Pride Month with logo on caps and uniforms
The San Francisco Giants will support Pride Month on the field and on their uniforms and caps. On Saturday against the Cubs, the Giants will feature Pride colors in the SF logo on their game caps along with a Pride patch on the right sleeves of their home uniforms — making them the first major league team to do so. “Very proud that the San Francisco Giants are taking this step. Very proud to be part of it,” manager Gabe Kapler said Tuesday before San Francisco hosted the Los Angeles Angels. “Looking forward to the impact and the support that […]
2021 Pride Announces “Thrive With Pride” Theme
LA Pride has announced its 2021 pride theme this year called “Thrive With Pride”. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the infamous Los Angeles Pride parade in West Hollywood was cancelled, which would have been its 50th anniversary, and in its place a protest march was held on June 14th for All Black Lives Matter. Christopher Street West (CSW), producer of the annual LA Pride, announced the All Black Lives Matter protest march on its website. “Out of recognition and respect to the years of work and action of Black LGBTQ+ leadership and community organizers, Christopher Street West and […]
Outloud: Raising Voices Live LA Celebration Happens June 4-6
OUTLOUD: RAISING VOICES IS A LGBTQ+ EVENT SERIES THAT’S MISSION IS TO PROMOTE LOVE, ACCEPTANCE, INCLUSIVENESS, IDENTITY AND SUPPORT WHILE BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER IN A COLORFUL CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY. OUR GOAL IS TO BRING LGBTQ+ ENTERTAINMENT FROM ACROSS THE WORLD TO A GLOBAL AUDIENCE WHILE SPREADING IT’S UNIQUE MESSAGE IN A VISIBLE AND VIBRANT WAY. THIS YEAR, OUTLOUD JOINS FORCES WITH PRIDE LIVE’S STONEWALL DAY, FEATURING A SPECIAL LINE-UP CURATED BY ADAM LAMBERT ON BEHALF OF THE FEEL SOMETHING FOUNDATION.
Newsom’s Budget Includes $3M for Dept. of Education to Develop LGBTQ+ Teacher Training
As legislatures and governors in dozens of states across the country advance a record number of bills targeting transgender children, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a budget proposal on Friday that includes $3 million for the California Department of Education to develop an LGBTQ+ cultural competency training curriculum for public school teachers and staff [p. 54]. The funding was requested by Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, and the request was supported by the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus. The budget allocation is a significant victory for the LGBTQ+ community and for Equality California, which has long advocated for such training, arguing that it is […]
Harvey Milk Day and San Francisco’s monuments to an LGBTQ icon
May 22 is Harvey Milk Day. Organized by the Harvey Milk Foundation, and officially marked by the city of San Francisco since 2009, the day commemorates the birthday of the famed gay rights activist and lawmaker, who was assassinated November 27, 1978. Born in 1930, Milk was the first openly gay elected official in California. Born in New York state, Milk joined the US Navy as a young man. He then went into the financial services sector, but relocated to San Francisco in the early 1970s, after experiencing its free-love, counter-culture atmosphere. He opened a camera store on Castro Street and began to […]
Upcoming Events at San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society Museum
The Daring Life & Dangerous Times of Eve AdamsAuthor Talk Friday, May 216:00–7:30 p.m. PDTOnline programFree | $5 suggested donation Author, historian and OutHistory.org founder Jonathan Ned Katz will discuss his new book, The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams (Chicago Review Press, 2021) the story of the daring Jewish lesbian activist Eve Adams. Drawing on startling evidence while carefully distinguishing fact from fiction, Katz presents the first biography of Adams. Born into a Jewish family in Poland, Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912 and befriended anarchists, sold radical publications, and ran lesbian-and-gay-friendly speakeasies in Chicago and New York. […]
Home of San Francisco’s 1st same-sex spouses now a landmark
The hilltop cottage belonging to a lesbian couple who were the first same-sex partners to legally marry in San Francisco has become a city landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to give the 651 Duncan St. home of the late lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin landmark status. The home in the Noe Valley neighborhood is expected to become the first lesbian landmark in the U.S. West, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. “They provided a place for lesbians who were really, really, really in the closet to hang out and dance, have holiday potlucks so they wouldn’t have […]