Queer San Francisco:
A Century Before Stonewall

Presented by Jim Van Buskirk

This visual chronology highlights the surprising stories of pioneering Bay Area queer individuals, organizations, publications and events from 1869 to 1969. Explore 100 years of cultural, artistic and political anecdotes. Encounter fascinating characters like poets Elsa Gidlow, Robert Duncan, and Rod McKuen, lesbian icons Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas, and entertainer/activist José Sarria as well as transgender pioneers Babe Bean and Jenny O. Learn about arrests and raids and visit early bars, bookstores and bathhouses. Meet visitors like sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld and Oscar Wilde. Join pioneering organizations the Daughters of Bilitis, the Society for Individual Rights, and the Council on Religion and the Homosexual. Prepare to hear fascinating, little-known stories about  the “gay capital of the world”.

About Jim Van Buskirk

Jim Van Buskirk is the co-author of Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He was the founding Program Manager of the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the San Francisco Public Library from 1992-2007.

For more info, visit jimvanbuskirk.com

Tues. Oct. 8th @ 6:30PM (In-person arrive at 6PM)

Reserve tickets here: www.SFHistory.org/QueerSF