HISTORY HAPPENS News From The GLBT Historical Society & The GLBT History Museum

October 2013

Festive Gala Set for October 24 to Feature Performers, Silent Auction, Special Guests

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MUSEUM EVENTS

October 6 Noon - 5 p.m. Castro Street Fair The GLBT Historical Society's annual Unmasked Gala, set for Thursday, October 24, will bring together enthusiasts of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender history for a festive evening at the Regency Center in San Francisco. The gala will support the public history initiatives of the society and The GLBT History Museum. Tickets are available online. Free museum admission "Unmasked pays homage to the pioneers of the our community, who have all day courtesy of made it possible for GLBT people to take off our masks and live our lives Bank of the West openly," said Paul Boneberg, executive director of the GLBT Historical Society. "This year, we're highlighting the historic contributions of Bay Area October 17 GLBT media -- and we'll be honoring two of our own longtime volunteers." 7 - 9 p.m. Living History Panel The gala will feature food and a hosted bar. Entertainment will include drag Bad for Good: The History stars Miss Rahni and Landa Lakes, swing dancers Ron Jenkins and Photis & Legacy of a Legendary Pishiaras, erotic cabaret performers from sfBoylesque, and DJs from Stay Dance Party Gold. A silent auction will offer travel packages, fine dining, art, photography and queer memorabilia donated by Historical Society supporters. October 24

7 - 10 p.m. Walker Awards & Historic Queer Media Unmasked Gala Regency Center During the gala, Amy Sueyoshi and Tom Burtch will be honored with the Willie San Francisco Walker Award, named after a founder of the society. Sueyoshi is a Historical Society board member who has served as an exhibition curator for The GLBT November 7 History Museum. Burtch has staffed the museum reception desk and assisted with exhibit installation; he is the lead curator of the museum's current 7 - 9 p.m. Author Reading exhibition on the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. Witness to History: Felice Picano & Ron Williams Attending as special guests will be representatives from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, as well as historic queer media, including Get Connected Ache: A Journal for Lesbians of African Descent (1989-1993); the Bay Area Click on the event title for Reporter (publishing since 1971); "Fruit Punch" on KPFA Radio (1973-1995); the Facebook invitation. "The Gay Life" on KSAN Radio (1977-1984); The Ladder: A Lesbian Review (1956-1972); San Francisco Bay Times (publishing since 1978); the syndicated transgender column "Transmissions" (publishing since 2000); and Trikone Magazine (publishing since 1986). GET INVOLVED

Buy Tickets or Become a Sponsor Gala Volunteers Unmasked takes place Thursday, October 24, in the Sutter Room at the Volunteers are needed Regency Center, 1290 Sutter St., San Francisco; the VIP reception is set for for the Unmasked Gala on October 24. Help out 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., followed by the gala from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. VIP tickets are for part of the event -- and $100; general admission is $60. Sponsorships start at $500. To purchase attend the whole evening tickets or sign on as a sponsor, call (415) 777-5455 or click here. for free! Contact gala volunteer coordinator Brian Turner.

Museum Volunteers Programs Highlight 'Real Bad' Stories, An orientation for Authors as Witnesses to Queer History volunteers for The GLBT xxxxxx History Museum is set for 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. on Living History Panel Tuesday, October 8. Bad for Good: The History & For details, contact Legacy of a Legendary Dance Party volunteer coordinator Kyle Maxwell-Berman. Thursday, October 17 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. xxx Marking its 25th anniversary this COMMUNITY year, Real Bad is a queer dance party held on the evening of the Folsom Street Fair in San Recovery Party Francisco. Produced by October 6 volunteers, the event has raised nearly $1.7 million for GLBT 6 p.m. - Midnight nonprofits. Taking place in Following the Castro conjunction with The GLBT Street Fair, Real Bad History Museum's current exhibit presents Recovery at about Real Bad, this living- Public Work at history panel will bring together 161 Erie St. in San past and present organizers of Francisco. The GLBT the party to discuss how Historical Society is a compassion and club culture beneficiary of Real Bad's coalesced into the dance fundraising this year. extravaganza starting in 1989 Here's the Facebook and how they have kept the event invitation. party going for a quarter-century. Curators of the exhibit and producers of a documentary short on Real Bad also will be on hand to answer questions. Admission: $5.00 (general); $3.00 (California students); free for GLBT Historical Society members. ON DISPLAY

Author Reading The GLBT History Witness to History: Felice Picano & Ron Williams Museum displays a Thursday, November 7 wealth of material 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. from San Francisco's xxx vast queer past.

An illustrated cardboard A novelist and a memoirist come fan with the slogan together to look at the ways "Transgender: You Are authors can act as witnesses to Precious" in Our Vast gay history. Award-winning writer Queer Past in the Main Felice Picano will read from his Gallery. The fan was latest book of short stories, 20th produced in 2004 by the California AIDS Century Un-Limited, which Clearinghouse to promote includes tales focusing on HIV prevention among Hollywood as a gay mecca in the transgender women. 1930s. Picano also will narrate oral histories and show visual materials casting light on the background of his fictional IN THE ARCHIVES portrayal of the period. xxx

Joining Picano will be native San The GLBT Historical Franciscan Ron Williams, read from his recently published memoir, San Society is home to one Francisco's Native "Sissy" Son. The book highlights the author's 50 years as a of the world's largest gay man in the city and particularly in the Castro, starting from the perspective gay, lesbian, bisexual of an innocent fresh out of the closet, who naïvely viewed but also participated and transgender in the Bay Area's early gay history. Williams will accompany his reading with a archival collections. showing of his personal photos of Bay Area gay life. Admission: $5.00

(general); $3.00 (California students); free for GLBT Historical Society members.

EXHIBITIONS & PROGRAMS The GLBT History Museum Location: 4127 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94114 Phone: 415-621-1107 Website: www.glbthistorymuseum.org Networks was a monthly published in San Admission: $5.00 general; $3.00 with California student ID. Free for Francisco in 1982-1983 members. Free for all visitors on the first Wednesday of each month by the International David (courtesy of the Bob Ross Foundation). Society, a business that arranged social events and other services for Hours gay men. A run of 22 Mondays - Saturdays: 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. issues is included in the Sundays: Noon - 5:00 p.m. Periodicals Collection.

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ARCHIVES & READING ROOM GLBT Historical Society For in-depth Location: 657 Mission St., Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94105 information on the Phone: 415-777-5455, ext. 3# GLBT Historical Society Website: www.glbthistory.org and The GLBT History Museum, visit xxx our website. RESEARCH HOURS xxx Weekdays: By Appointment & Subject to Availability Members: Wednesdays - Fridays: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Nonmembers: Fridays: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. xxx For updates on the Saturdays: No Appointment Needed museum and archives, Open to members and nonmembers 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. the first like us on Facebook. and third Saturday of the month; no appointment needed. Hours (Be sure to select "Get subject to change; before visiting, check the GLBT Historical Society Notifications.") website.

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Gala Photos: Anna-Alexia Basile

& Jim Norrena

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