GLBT History Museum

$10 admission; Free for GLBT Historical Society Members RSVP and reserve tickets here https://glbthistory.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list/panel-the-business-of-care-lesbian-economies-across-time Lesbian businesses have never been just businesses. They have been sites of creativity, survival, mutual aid, and collective imagination. This conversation emerges from Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care, 1970–1995, an exhibition tracing the networks, businesses, and […]

Join the GLBT Historical Society Museum for In Their Own Words: Trans People of Color Speak from the Video Archives, an evening of rare archival footage spotlighting Black, Latinx, Asian, and Pacific Islander trans and gender-nonconforming people speaking about their lives, identities, and activism. Drawn from the GLBT Historical Society collections, this special program features […]

$10 admission; Free for GLBT Historical Society Members RSVP and reserve tickets here https://glbthistory.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list/the-einstein-of-sex-dr-magnus-hirschfeld-visionary-of-weimar-berlin More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld — the “Einstein of Sex” — became renowned for his groundbreaking theory of sexual relativity. Nearly 100 years after the Nazis burned his books and hounded him from the queer mecca he helped […]

RSVP and reserve your tickets here https://glbthistory.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list/speaking-of-the-stage-of-drag Visit a gay bar in New York, Los Angeles, or even Nashville on a random weeknight and you might stumble onto a drag performance. In San Francisco, by contrast, drag is more deliberate — highly advertised, less spontaneous, and concentrated in only a few venues. What can the […]

$10 admission; Free for GLBT Historical Society Members RSVP and reserve tickets here https://glbthistory.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list/contested-curriculum-lgbtq-history-goes-to-school On the heels of the recent publication of his newest book, Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School, advocate and scholar Don Romesburg will discuss the surprisingly long journey to bring LGBTQ-inclusive history education to U.S. K-12 schools. In this moment […]

$15 admission; Free for GLBT Historical Society Members RSVP and reserve tickets here https://glbthistory.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list/speaking-of-the-castro-fog-why-we-forget-our-other-gayborhoods While every city’s neighborhoods change, few have experienced such thorough erasure from collective memory as San Francisco’s original gayborhoods. The gender-nonconforming stage acts of the Barbary Coast made North Beach home to some of the city’s earliest queer spaces. The Tenderloin […]

$10 admission; Free for GLBT Historical Society Members RSVP and reserve tickets here https://glbthistory.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list/intergenerational-inspiration-trans-artists-envision-a-more-expansive-futur Join us for an evening of conversation and reflection with artist Éamon McGivern, whose exhibition A/History, currently on view at The Museum, explores trans identity through archival materials, personal memory, and painterly interpretation. McGivern will be joined by a panel of […]

$10 admission; Free for GLBT Historical Society Members RSVP and reserve tickets here https://glbthistory.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list/black-fat-femme-revealing-the-power-of-visibly-queer-voices-in-media Join the GLBT Historical Society for an evening with author Dr. Jonathan P. Higgins discussing their new book, Black. Fat. Femme: Revealing the Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and How to Love Yourself, a celebration of queer voices in […]

Join renowned photographer and artist Mariette Pathy Allen inconversation with Ms. Bob Davis and Jesse Egner as they discuss Mariette's latest book, I Was The Girl: Art by Vicky West, published by MATTE Editions. For nearly five decades, Mariette Pathy Allen has captured the lives and stories of gender-non-conforming communities through herlens. Mariette’s newest book, […]

$10 admission; Free for members RSVP and reserve tickets here https://glbthistory.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list/illustrated-talk-the-very-queer-life-of-the-italian-invert In 1889, a 23 year old queer Italian wrote to French novelist Émile Zola about his desires, his loves and his hesitations on his gender identity. He bares his soul and hopes the novelist will create a character in his image. This beautifully written […]