TITLE | DESCRIPTION | DATE CREATED | IS FORMAT OF |
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Shanti Project volunteer and client (1) | A Shanti Project volunteer and client in a hospital. |
1990 to 1999 | |
Shanti Project volunteer and client (2) | A Shanti Project volunteer and client in a hospital. |
1990 to 1999 | |
Shanti Project volunteer and client (3) | A Shanti Project volunteer and client. |
1990 to 1999 | |
Blank survey | A survey intended to be distributed to youth with LGBTQ+ parents. |
1990 to 1999 | |
COLAGE press releases | 1990 to 1999 | ||
Brochures and communications | Brochures and communications materials from COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere). |
1990 to 1999 | |
Run of show [1] | A run of show listing the schedule of performers and their acts at Finocchio's nightclub. |
1990 to 1999 | |
Run of show [2] | A run of show listing the schedule of performers and their acts at Finocchio's nightclub. |
1990 to 1999 | |
Finocchio's promotional postcard | Promotional postcard advertising Finocchio's nightclub. This postcard uses the term "female impersonators" to describe performers, which is a historic term that comes from a straight-coded Victorian theatrical form and continued until the mid-20th century before merging into what we now call drag. |
1990 to 1999 | |
Finocchio's coupon | 1990 to 1999 | ||
Antediluvian Manifesto by Janet MacHarg | 1990 to 1999 | ||
Ginny Knuth papers, folder 2 | Folder 2 of the papers of Ginny Knuth, a cisgender member of Educational Transvestite Channel (later called TransGender San Francisco). Knuth's husband identified as a crossdresser and was also a member of the group. |
1990 to 1999 | |
Gay Freedom Day Parade 1976 | Gay Freedom Day Parade 1976 in San Francisco, CA. Film by Rich Weiss from the Henri Leleu collection. Leleu (1907-1996) was a gay man who was active in the San Francisco leather scene and participated in LGBTQ community groups. File name: glbths 1997-13 7 011 sc |
1976 | |
Castro #1 | Raw footage from the 1976 documentary short film The Castro: A Definitively Biased View. The tape depicts Castro neighborhood streetscapes and business interiors, including several antique stores, a spice shop, a clothing store, and a restaurant. It also includes an interview a gay activist, possibly Chris Perry, who was handing out whistles as part of campaign to stop anti-gay violence. |
1976 | |
Castro #3 | Raw footage from the 1976 documentary short film The Castro: A Definitively Biased View. The tape includes an extended interview with Scott Smith inside Castro Camera and a tour of Lee Mentley's home art gallery, the Hulah Palace (sometimes spelled Hula Palace). |
1976 | |
Castro #2 | Raw footage from the 1976 documentary short film The Castro: A Definitively Biased View. The tape depicts a ventriquist act and a drag performance utilizing yellowface at an unnamed performance venue. Yellowface refers to a tradition of theatrical and musical performance, originating in the mid-19th century, in which white actors deployed racist and stereotypical costumes, makeup, props, gestures, dialects, and musical sounds to connote ""Chineseness"" and/or ""Asianness"" and, in turn, foreigness and racial inferiority. It also includes a conversation with a man registering voters on the street, interior shots of Cliff's Variety store, and extended footage of a street theater performance. |
1976 | |
The Castro: A Definitively Biased View | A documentary short film about life in the Castro. Depicted are neighborhood streetscapes and business interiors, including several antique stores, a spice shop, a clothing store, and a restaurant; an interview with Scott Smith inside Castro Camera; a conversation with performer Pristine Condition; an interview a gay activist, possibly Chris Perry, who was handing out whistles as part of a campaign to stop anti-gay violence; a street theater performance; and a a conversation with a man registering voters on the street. |
1976 | |
1976 Castro Street Fair Original Tape 2 | Footage of the 1976 Castro Street Fair, taken by Daniel Smith, a member of the Queer Blue Light Video collective.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1976 | |
1976 Castro Street Fair Copy #1 | Footage of the 1976 Castro Street Fair, taken by Daniel Smith, a member of the Queer Blue Light Video collective.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1976 | |
Castro Street Fair 1976 Copy #3 | Footage of the 1976 Castro Street Fair, taken by Daniel Smith, a member of the Queer Blue Light Video collective.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1976 | |
1976 Castro Street Fair Original Tape 1 | Footage of the 1976 Castro Street Fair including an interview with Harvey Milk, taken by Daniel Smith, a member of the Queer Blue Light Video collective.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1976 | |
Gay Health Board Elections Original | Footage of interviews with people in the Castro about the Gay Health Board Election and the Gay Health Project, made by Daniel Smith and the Queer Blue Light Video collective. Some of this clip is audio-only.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1976 | |
Gay and Lesbian Historical Society and San Francisco Public Library Town Hall (1 of 2) | A town hall meeting with representatives from the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society (GLHS) and the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) presenting on plans for the Gay and Lesbian Center that would be installed in the SFPL's Special Collections department. The presentation covers fundraising and budget considerations, archival collections the SFPL has and will acquire, and the SFPL's desire to acquire collections from the GLHS. A question and answer session concludes the presentation, with questions about the SFPL's preservation and access capabilities and how to navigate potential push back from the general public about the library's involvement with gay and lesbian collections. This material was digitized through the generous support of Larry Brenner and Angelo Figone. |
1990 to 1999 | |
Gay and Lesbian Historical Society and San Francisco Public Library Town Hall (2 of 2) | A town hall meeting with representatives from the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society (GLHS) and the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) presenting on plans for the Gay and Lesbian Center that would be installed in the SFPL's Special Collections department. The presentation was followed by a question and answer session. Questions asked include how the SFPL would decide which collections to accept, concerns about a government entity controlling community materials, how much of the GLHS holdings they might donate to the SFPL, and the inclusivity of current and potential collections at the GLHS. The presentation concludes with a motion for GLHS membership to vote on whether or not to give the board authority to enter negotiations for partnership with the SFPL. The motion passed. This material was digitized through the generous support of Larry Brenner and Angelo Figone. |
1990 to 1999 | |
Jason Allen Interviews, “Why San Francisco?” | A video in which an interviewer asks diverse pedestrians why they live in San Francisco. The final interview is with a woman who discusses her gender, sexuality, and pursuing treatment for mosaic Turner Syndrome. |
1990 to 1999 |