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GLBT Historical Society Museum

4127 18th St, San Francisco, California 94114 USA

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“Celebrating San Francisco's GLBT History”

Located in San Francisco's Castro District, The GLBT History Museum is the first full-scale, stand-alone museum of its kind in the United States. The museum celebrates 100 years of the city's vast queer past through dynamic and surprising exhibitions and programming. Celebrating San Francisco's GLBT History  To honor the GLBT Historical Society's 25th anniversary, the curators of "Our Vast Queer Past" burrowed into every corner of the society's extraordinary archives. To spark the topics for the show, we picked an inspirational object from virtually every year the society has been acquiring collections. Our objectives: raising new questions about familiar gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender stories and evoking largely untold stories that speak eloquently about our diversity. The resulting exhibition offers a kaleidoscopic view of nearly a century of queer experience in San Francisco and the Bay Area. It does not form a single narrative; our history is too varied and unruly to be limited in that way. Instead, we bring together multiple stories, sometimes interlinking, sometimes isolated, sometimes in conflict.All of them reflect deeply human themes: the search for companionship and pleasure; the struggle for self-determination and respect in an often-hostile society; the value of individual and collective expression; and the spirit, ingenuity and wit that have been keys to our survival.

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Amanda D.

Got lucky and was able to reserve tickets on a "free day". Although this is a small venue, there is much on display. Lots of descriptions of the Bay Area LGBTQ+ community and the rise of the... Read more

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WC C.

It's a closet-sized single room that isn't even full. As a "museum" it's a 1/10; there's nothing inside. The walls of nearby bars have more historical items on display than this "museum." They... Read more

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Ten W.

i had a great experience at this museum. it's a bit small but it's full of the rich queer history of san francisco. heartwearming and heartbreaking stories of trans women, drag queens, leather... Read more

GLBT Historical Society Museum

4127 18th St
San Francisco, California
94114 USA
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