TITLE | DESCRIPTION | DATE CREATED | IS FORMAT OF |
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Passing on the Pen, March 25, 2008 | A collaboration between the GLBT Historical Society and the Lambda Literary Foundation, "Passing on the Pen" was a "series of conversations...designed to pair some of the pioneers of GLBT literature with today’s emerging GLBT storytellers." The March 25, 2008 event featured a conversation with Ann Bannon and Victor J. Banis. This recording is incomplete. |
2008-03-25 | |
Passing on the Pen, July 8, 2008 | A collaboration between the GLBT Historical Society and the Lambda Literary Foundation, "Passing on the Pen" was a "series of conversations...designed to pair some of the pioneers of GLBT literature with today’s emerging GLBT storytellers." The July 8, 2008 event featured a conversation with Jewelle Gomez and Frederick Smith. |
2008-07-08 | |
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 | |
Passing on the Pen, April 15, 2008 | A collaboration between the GLBT Historical Society and the Lambda Literary Foundation, "Passing on the Pen" was a "series of conversations...designed to pair some of the pioneers of GLBT literature with today’s emerging GLBT storytellers." The April 15, 2008 event featured a conversation with Michelle Tea, Carol Queen, and Rhiannon Argo. |
2008-04-15 | |
Passing on the Pen, June 13, 2008 | A collaboration between the GLBT Historical Society and the Lambda Literary Foundation, "Passing on the Pen" was a "series of conversations...designed to pair some of the pioneers of GLBT literature with today’s emerging GLBT storytellers." The June 13, 2008 event featured a conversation with Katherine V. Forrest and Christopher Rice. |
2008-06-13 | |
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 | |
Passing on the Pen, May 13, 2008 | A collaboration between the GLBT Historical Society and the Lambda Literary Foundation, "Passing on the Pen" was a "series of conversations...designed to pair some of the pioneers of GLBT literature with today’s emerging GLBT storytellers." The May 13, 2008 event featured a conversation with Robert Glück and Kevin Killian. |
2008-05-13 | |
March on the 1984 Democratic Party Convention | Footage of the July 16, 1984 lesbian and gay march on the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. |
1984 | |
Castro Sweep 1989 | From tape label: "I am Patrick Henry, owner of SuperStar Video 17th in SF. As a reporter/co-producer of award-winning TV program "Community Action Network" news, I found myself behind police lines recording what appeared to be a routine (and rather small) group of protesters confronting the SFPD. What develops leads outraged onlookers to "take to the streets". An unedited version of this tape was voluntarily passed along to the ACLU, pursuing their case against the City and SFPD. I thought, in case others have not likewise documented this event, that I'd provide this copy to you for your viewing." |
1989-10 | |
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 | |
Guy Strait: The Mayor of Montgomery Street | An interview with Guy Strait by an unidentified interviewer. |
1986-11-30 | |
NBC News: "I Left My Home in San Francisco" | News story about gentrification in the Fillmore and Mission neighborhoods of San Francisco. The story frames gentrification as a conflict between white gay men and straight people of color. It draws upon stereotypes to depict Black and especially Latinx cultures as homophobic, blaming an uptick of anti-gay violence on people of color. |
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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 | |
Supersize Pride, 1975-1979 | A panel on the history of San Francisco's Pride celebration from 1975-1979. Panelists include Celeste Newbrough, Howard Wallace, and Paul Gabriel. The moderator is Randy Alfred. |
2008-06-08 | |
The David Susskind Show: Women Who Love Women (Tape 2) | Discussion about lesbianism with Barbara Love, Barbara Gittings, Lilli Vincenz, Anna Salvato, Magora Kennedy, Rachael Parker, and Lyn Kupferman. |
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The David Susskind Show: Women Who Love Women (Tape 1) | Discussion about lesbianism with Barbara Love, Barbara Gittings, Lilli Vincenz, Anna Salvato, Magora Kennedy, Rachael Parker, and Lyn Kupferman. |
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Milk Skimmed panel | A recording of "Milk Skimmed," the first event in the GLBT Historical Society's 2009 speaker series "Talking Back: Queer History Fully Exposed." A panel featuring Gwenn Craig, Joshua Gamson, Tomás Almuguer, and Ruth Mahaney, and moderated by Don Romesburg, reflects on the 2008 film Milk. |
2009-02-19 | |
Gay Power, Gay Politics | 1980 | Scratch/glbths_video_001_am.avi | |
Castro: Time-Lapse (To Be Edited) | Raw footage from 1976 documentary short film The Castro: A Definitively Biased View. The tape includes a time-laspe shot of Castro Street in San Francisco. |
1976-04-08 | |
¡Viva 16! | A documentary short about Latinx LGBT life in San Francisco from the 1970s to the 1990s, focusing upon 16th Street in the Mission District. The film also addresses community responses to HIV/AIDS. |
1994 | |
A City Divided | Video for Rev. Jim Robinson's 1990 San Francisco Board of Supervisors campaign. In the video, Robinson attacks the "Homosexual Dominated Political Establishment." |
1990 | |
Gay Power, Gay Politics: Has the Truth Been Told? | A 1980 KPIX Eyewitness News Special Report on the CBS Reports documentary "Gay Power, Gay Politics." The episode features "Gay Power, Gay Politics" producers George Crile and Grace Diekhaus in conversation with Gwenn Craig, Vice President of the Milk Democratic Club; Wayne Friday, President of the Tavern Guild; David Scott, a candidate in the 1979 San Francisco mayoral race; Harry Britt, a San Francisco Supervisor; Armistead Maupin, a writer; and Cleve Jones, a gay rights activist. |
1980 | Scratch/glbths_video_002_am.avi |
The David Susskind Show: Women Who Love Women (Tape 3) | Discussion about lesbianism with Barbara Love, Barbara Gittings, Lilli Vincenz, Anna Salvato, Magora Kennedy, Rachael Parker, and Lyn Kupferman. |
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1981 Gay Parade Police Hassle | Cassette was held in a box labeled "Robert N. Hunter" videos. The video features footage of police presence and harassment at the 1981 International Lesbian & Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco. |
1981-06-28 | |
Homophile Reunion Miyako Hotel SF (Part 1) | A June 15, 2001 gathering of people who were active in San Francisco homophile organizations during the 1950s and 1960s. The video opens with brief interviews with (in order of appearance) Donald Lucas, Bill Plath, Michael Robert Caffee, Robert Cromey, Al Alvarez (also known as Fred Alvarez), Lewis Durham, Jose Sarria, Herbert Donaldson, Bob Ross, and Nancy May. A roundtable conversation follows. Organizations discussed include the Mattachine Society, Tavern Guild, League for Civil Education, Society for Individual Rights, and Council on Religion and the Homosexual. The audio quality in the first 12 minutes of the video is poor. |
2001-06-15 | |
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 | |
Edge of Revolt Exhibit Opening Program at the Harvey Milk Library | A recording of the June 5, 1994 opening program for "On the Edge of Revolt: San Francisco Lesbians and Gay Men Before Stonewall," a GLBTHS (then the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society) exhibition about "the development of a politically active gay and lesbian community in San Francisco during the years 1945-1969" that was displayed at the Harvey Milk Memorial Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. The event included comments on behalf of GLBTHS by Ruth Mahaney, Ellen Meyers, Lyndall MacCowan, George Roosen, and Sarah Ann Davis; readings by Janet MacHarg and Bev Hickok; and reminiscences of San Francisco's lesbian and gay social scene, particularly the bar scene, from Ken Miller, Bernice Miller, Angelo Sattosanti, and Jose Sarria. |
1994-06-05 | |
Homophile Reunion Miyako Hotel SF (Part 2) | A June 15, 2001 gathering of people who were active in San Francisco homophile organizations during the 1950s and 1960s. This tape includes part two of a conversation among Donald Lucas, Bill Plath, Michael Robert Caffee, Robert Cromey, Al Alvarez (also known as Fred Alvarez), Lewis Durham, Jose Sarria, Herbert Donaldson, Bob Ross, and Nancy May. The audio quality is poor. |
2001-06-15 | |
Picketing Jerry Falwell at Los Gatos Christian Church | Footage of a picket of Jerry Falwell's May 7, 1986 speaking engagement at the Los Gatos Christian Church by LGBT activists. Falwell's appearance was sponsored by the Coalition for Christians in Government. |
1986-05-07 |