Nation's first gay history museum opens in San Francisco

[sabra]

Source: USA Today/San Francisco Chronicle

The nation's first gay history museum opens today in San Francisco, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Items on display include the kitchen table and pink-framed sunglasses that belonged to Harvey Milk, the first elected openly gay politician in California. The exhibit also features manuscripts and sex toys.

"Telling our stories transforms our lives and our society and takes us out of the margins," Don Romesburg, a curator and assistant professor of Sonoma State University's Department of Women's and Gender Studies, tells the Chronicle. "The museum is at the heart of that project."

The newspaper says the new museum is actually the world's second dedicated exclusively to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender materials. The first is in Germany.

Read more: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/01/nations-first-gay-history-museum-opens-in-san-francisco/1

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[KamaAina]

2. You would perhaps prefer mummified corpses? Weapons of war?

Those have been on display across town and elsewhere for decades.

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[gauguin57]

3. San Francisco already has an Antique Vibrator Museum (on Valencia Street, SF)

So, there you go.

[EFerrari]

5. Have you seen the documentary? It's hilarious and amazing.

It plays on Free Speech TV every so often.

[KamaAina]

6. Indeed. My Mom once visited same.

While I waited for her outside on the street.

[boppers]

8. Good vibes, or something else?

They have a great collection.

[xchrom]

7. Awesome. nt

[No Elephants]

9. Good, but I look forward to the day when we need fewer

gay American museums, women American museums, African American museums, Jewish American museums and the like bc all American museums will reflect the whole of America.

[Solly Mack]

10. K&R

[guitar man]

11. Good

I bet it is just fabulous. :)