Contents:
- THE COMMTEE ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HISTORY
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
THE COMMTEE ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HISTORY
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.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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. The society accsns a major llectn om Louis Sullivan (1951–1991), a pneerg gay and transgenr activist and historian, a foundg member of the GLBT Historil Society, and the founr of the group now known as FTM Internatnal. The photos the llectn offer a rare glimpse to gay life 1970s San Francis, and a signifint number have sce been digized.
1996 Thirty-five years after he beme the first openly gay ndidate for public office, José Jul Sarria (1922–2013) donat a nsirable archival llectn to the society. 1997The society helps to mark the centenary of the world’s first homosexual-rights anizatn by lendg around 30 ems to the monumental “Goodbye to Berl? 1998Donald Lus (1926–2003) donat the rerds of the natnal office of the Mattache Society, one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the Uned Stat.
'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
The society chang s name aga to the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr Historil Society, monly referred to as the GLBT Historil Society. The Associatn is a gay multiracial, multicultural, polil and social anizatn, found 1980, wh more than 30 chapters around the U. In April 2021, the GLBT Historil Society receiv an archival donatn of a agment of one of the two monumental rabow flags first raised on June 25, 1978 San Francis’s Uned Natns Plaza at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day flag go on display at the GLBT Historil Society Mm June, as the mm opens after a long closure durg the COVID-19 panmic.
AcknowledgmentsThanks to the followg dividuals for providg memori, documents and assistance wh illtratns: Lren Cuttler, Sasha Cuttler, Lnea Due, Pla Jabloner, Pla Lichtenberg, Ruth Mahaney, Greg Penngton, Gayle Rub and Sharon Ullman.
Harvey Milk at the 1978 San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para; photograph by Crawford Barton, Crawford Barton Papers (1993-11).