San Francis Gay Pri: 21 historic LGBTQ s to vis - Curbed SF

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The meetg, anized by Eric Garber, Jim Gordon, Terry Henrlg, Ellen Klag, Greg Penngton and Willie Walker, built on smaller gathergs that had started the prev fall, and clud members of the San Francis Lbian and Gay History Project, which had begun the late 1970s, and the San Francis Gay and Lbian Perdil Archiv, which had begun 1983. On May 18, the membership vot to name the anizatn the San Francis Bay Area Gay and Lbian Historil Society and elects the first board of directors, cludg -chairs Ilene Brettholz and Willie Walker (1949–2004).

Members of the newly formed society march the 1985 Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis. The society quickly starts sharg s rourc, by puttg on s first exhibns: displays at a rnn of the Society for Individual Rights and at the San Francis Urban the same year, the society receiv the holdgs of the San Francis Gay and Lbian Perdil Archiv, creatg the nucls of s Perdils Collectn. The society rents a storage locker to acmodate further accsns, havg already outgrown s storage space the livg room of -founr Willie society receiv a trove of irreplaceable material om scholar and activist Will Rose, cludg the rerds of Gay Amerin Indians, the first LGBTQ Amerin Indian liberatn anizatn, found July October, members rry the Gay and Lbian Historil Society banner the send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights.

Rpondg to a requt om the Historil Society, San Francis Mayor Art Agnos clar June as “Gay and Lbian History Month” the cy.

1990The society chang s name to the Gay and Lbian Historil Society of Northern California to reflect a wir geographil spe for s llectns, and mov to the Redstone Buildg on 16th Street, s first rented office space.