First (and only) GLBT History Museum in the US - open in SF

[pinto]

And only the second in the world. The other is in Berlin. ~ pinto

http://www.glbthistory.org/index.html

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1.28.11
First GLBT History Museum in the United States Now Open in San Francisco’s Castro District

Internationally renowned as a center for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender culture, San Francisco has now welcomed yet another groundbreaking queer institution: The GLBT History Museum. A project of the GLBT Historical Society, an archives and research center established in 1985, the new museum will be the first of its kind in the United States—and only the second in the world.

The GLBT History Museum currently features two exhibitions: In the main gallery, “Our Vast Queer Past: Celebrating San Francisco’s GLBT History,” curated by historians Gerard Koskovich, Don Romesburg and Amy Sueyoshi, and in the front gallery, “Great Collections of the GLBT Historical Society Archives.”



http://www.glbthistory.org/index.html

[HEyHEY]

1. Are you shitting me?

There's only two of these? I would actually really like to see that. Unlike race related civil rights, gay civil rights struggles are never taught in public school, which could explain the continued bigotry.

[Octafish]

2. My auntie from San Francisco came to Detroit for the opening of the AAHM.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. She invited a college classmate to attend with us. Her friend, who lives in a very tony Detroit suburb and whom she hadn't seen in decades, declined and said: "Why would anyone want to go to Detroit?"

The family here look forward to returning the favor.

EDIT: Forgot to write down the reason for the post -- Thank you for the heads-up, pinto.

[xchrom]

3. recommend

[cliffordu]

4. K&R.