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  2. GLBT Historical Society - Wikipedia

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    The archives, reading room and administrative offices of the GLBT Historical Society are located at 989 Market St., Lower Level, in San Francisco's Mid-Market district. The GLBT Historical Society Museum, which serves as a separate center for exhibitions and programs, is located at 4127 18th St. in the city's Castro neighborhood .

  3. LGBT culture in San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco's LGBT culture has its roots in the city's own origin as a frontier town, what San Francisco State University professor Alamilla Boyd characterized as "San Francisco's history of sexual permissiveness and its function as a wide-open town – a town where anything goes". [ 3] The discovery of gold saw a boom in population from 800 ...

  4. Castro District, San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    The grand opening of the museum took place on the evening of January 13, 2011. The first full-scale, stand-alone museum of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in the United States (and only the second in the world after the Schwules Museum in Berlin), the GLBT History Museum is a project of the GLBT Historical Society. [43]

  5. Lou Sullivan - Wikipedia

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    Lou Sullivan. Louis Graydon Sullivan (June 16, 1951 – March 2, 1991) was an American author and activist known for his work on behalf of trans men. He was perhaps the first transgender man to publicly identify as gay, [ 1] and is largely responsible for the modern understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity as distinct, unrelated ...

  6. Gilbert Baker (artist) - Wikipedia

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    Baker's work and related historical artifacts are represented in several major museum and archival collections. The GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco owns one of the sewing machines Baker used to produce the original rainbow flags in 1978, along with one of the limited-edition recreations of the eight-stripe design he produced to mark ...

  7. Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District - Wikipedia

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    The Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District [1] is a cultural district in San Francisco 's South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood commemorating the history and culture of the leather subculture active in the area for approximately half a century. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors established the district with legislation signed into law by the ...

  8. Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon - Wikipedia

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    Wedding of Martin and Lyon, 2008. Martin and Lyon after their first wedding, 2004. Dorothy Louise Taliaferro " Del " Martin (May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008) [1] and Phyllis Ann Lyon (November 10, 1924 – April 9, 2020) [2] [3] were an American lesbian couple based in San Francisco who were known as feminist and gay-rights activists. [1]

  9. LGBT movements in the United States - Wikipedia

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    LGBT rights. LGBT movements in the United States comprise an interwoven history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied social movements in the United States of America, beginning in the early 20th century. A commonly stated goal among these movements is social equality for LGBT people.

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