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May 2013

Honoring at The GLBT History Museum: Free Admission, Tours and Activities Set for 22

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MUSEUM EVENTS

May 9 7 - 9 p.m. Author Reading The End of

May 22 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Free Admission & Special Activities

June 20 7 - 9 p.m. Film Discussion Visitors viewing Harvey Milk's belongings on display in the Front Gallery of The What Were the GLBT History Museum. Milk-related materials appear throughout the museum. '90s?

California marks Harvey Milk's birthday, May 22, as an annual statewide day of June 24 significance. The GLBT History Museum will honor the occasion this year by giving 7 - 9 p.m. free admission to all visitors and providing special Milk-related displays and tours. In Film Discussion addition, the museum is extending a welcome to Bay Area schools, many of which "Valencia": My Michelle plan GLBT history activities in conjunction with Harvey Milk Day. June 26 Brief docent tours of the museum highlighting Harvey Milk and his times will be 7 - 9 p.m. offered every hour on the hour from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Teachers, Film Discussion professors and student groups also can schedule other times for student tours Debauchery & Romance by contacting the museum at [email protected]. in "Valencia"

Periodically throughout the day, the screen in the Main Gallery will show rare Get Connected video clips of Milk from the Daniel A. Smith/Queer Blue Light Collection in the Click on the event title for GLBT Historical Society archives. the invitation. On an exceptional basis throughout the week of May 20, the exhibit of Milk's belongings in the Front Gallery will feature a vintage tape recorder playing Milk's political will. GET INVOLVED

The GLBT History Museum includes photographs, video, ephemera and artifacts that document Milk and his life in 1970s San Francisco not only in the Front Gallery New Volunteer display, but also in both "Our Vast Queer Past" in the Main Gallery and "Legendary" in Orientation the Corner Gallery. A new gallery guide set for release on Harvey Milk Day will make it Set for May 7 easy for visitors to discover this content. An orientation for After the museum closes., a nearby bookshop will host a further opportunity to learn volunteers for The GLBT about Harvey Milk: From 7:30 to 9:00 p.m., Books Inc. at 2275 Market St. is hosting a History Museum is set for panel about the new book An Archive of Hope (University of Press), which 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. on brings together Milk's speeches and open letters. Editors Jason Edward Black and Wednesday, May 6. Charles E. Morris III will join Milk's friends Frank Robinson and to For details, contact GLBT discuss Milk's legacy. The event is cosponsored by the GLBT Historical Society. Historical Society Executive Director Paul Boneberg.

Complete the Survey Today: 'Your Perspectives Will COMMUNITY Help Shape the Future of Our Museum and Archives' xxxx In mid-April, the GLBT Historical Society distributed a survey via e-mail and social media asking members, museum-goers, researchers and others for their views. The online questionnaire, which takes less than 10 minutes to complete, is open for further responses through Wednesday, May 8, at GLBTHS Survey.

"We're constantly working to develop our exhibitions, programs and collections in ways that will make our members and supporters proud," says Executive Director Paul Boneberg. "To continue meeting that goal, we need your feedback on our efforts. If you haven't filled out our survey, please take a few minutes to answer the questions today. Your perspectives will be invaluable in helping shape the future of our museum and archives." June 6 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Boneberg adds that everyone who takes the survey will have a chance to win a t-shirt Remembering from The GLBT History Museum; five winners will be drawn at random from the respondents. To fill out the survey questionnaire, visit GLBTHS Survey. Tede Matthews Mission Cultural Center

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Honoring the life and San Francisco in the 1990s: Museum Programs legacy of Bay Area poet, Spotlight Memories, Critiques, Representations performer and activist Tede Matthews through xxx readings and recollections Author Reading from people who knew Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: The End of San Francisco him, including writers from Thursday, May 9 the queer radical poetry 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. scene of the 1980s and 1990s. Cosponsored by xxx the GLBT Historical Author, activist, queer social critic and former San Franciscan Mattilda Bernstein Society. For details, see Sycamore recounts how it all will come to an end the Facebook invitation. with her new book, The End of San Francisco. Sycamore conjures the tensions between idealism and engagement, trauma and self- actualization, inspiration and loss. Part memoir, ON DISPLAY part social history, part elegy, The End of San Francisco explores and explodes the dream of radical queer community and the mythical city that The GLBT History was supposed to nurture it. Described by the Museum displays a Austin Chronicle as "a cross between Tinkerbell wealth of material and a honky Malcolm X with a queer agenda," from San Francisco's Sycamore edited the award-winning anthology vast queer past. Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Admission: $5.00 (general); $3.00 (California students); free for members.

Film Discussions Michelle Tea's 'Valencia': How a New Independent Film Illuminates a Queer Novel, a Queer City and a Queer Era xxx A special three-part program featuring filmmakers charged with bringing Michelle Tea's award-winning autobiographical novel Valencia (2000) to the screen. Set in queer San Francisco in the 1990s, Valencia premieres at Frameline 37, the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival, in the third week of June. In a collaborative project headed by Tea and Hilary Goldberg, the movie was created by 18 filmmakers, each of whom created a short In the Front Gallery: based on a chapter from the book. In "Migrating Archives: conversation with the author, the LGBT Delegates From filmmakers will discuss pre- and post- Collections Around the gentrification San Francisco, nostalgia and World" features an fantasy, activism and desire, debauchery international sampling and subversion -- and how those elements of queer life stories and the archives that document are represented in the film. The panels are them. For an interview with set for 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Admission: $5.00 curator E.G. Crichton, visit (general); $3.00 (California students); free the History@Work blog. for members. xxx Thursday, June 20 | What Were the Queer '90s? IN THE ARCHIVES A discussion of the influence of San Francisco's 1990s queer life on the city's GLBT community today. The panel includes "Valencia" filmmakers who were and were not around for the 1990s party: Aubree Bernier-Clarke, Lares Feliciano, Silas The GLBT Historical Howard, Alexa Shae and Samuael Topiary. Society is home to one of the world's largest Monday, June 24 | My Michelle , , bisexual A look at choices made by Valencia filmmakers who cast outside the box for their and vision of the character of Michelle, using claymation buffalo, blow-up dolls, drag archival collections. queens and Angelina Jolie; with Jerry Lee Abram, Cheryl Dunye, Hilary Goldberg, Chris Vargas and Greg Youmans.

Wednesday, June 26 | Debauchery and Romance in Valencia An exploration of the highs and lows of portraying debauchery on screen, as well as the uses of hedonism in life and art; with Bug Davidson, Michelle Lawlor, Sara St. Martin Lynne, Sharon Rubenstein and Courtney Trouble.

The archives contain EXHIBITIONS & PROGRAMS numerous collections documenting Harvey Milk, The GLBT History Museum including Milk's personal Location: 4127 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94114 belongings that were Phone: 415-621-1107 preserved after his death. Website: www.glbthistorymuseum.org For other collections, enter "Harvey Milk" in the Admission: $5.00 general; $3.00 with California student ID. Free for searchable online catalogs of members. Free for all visitors on the first Wednesday of each month (courtesy the society's archives, of the Bob Ross Foundation). periodicals, oral history and audio collections. Hours Mondays - Saturdays: 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Sundays: Noon - 5:00 p.m. ON THE WEB

ARCHIVES & READING ROOM For in-depth GLBT Historical Society information on the Location: 657 Mission St., Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94105 GLBT Historical Society Phone: 415-777-5455, ext. 3# and The GLBT History Website: www.glbthistory.org Museum, visit our website. Research Hours (by appointment) Members: Wednesdays - Fridays: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Nonmembers: Fridays: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. First & Third Saturdays: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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