SF’s LGBTQIA Historic Places Panel Discussion | SF Main Library

Submitted by the Event Organizer

This June will mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a perfect moment to discuss the status of historic queer sites and queer public history in San Francisco.

The vanishing of San Francisco queer culture is deeply intertwined in urban life, and had not been immune to the changes in our city. Carving space in the urban landscape has been essential for queer survival, for building community and obtaining political and cultural power, and, quite simply, for finding each other.

As some of those essential queer sites and, even whole neighborhoods, slip away into hypergentrification propelled by “tech”, we want to take a moment and access where we are at and where we want to be in the future.

Panel Discussion

Tania Jimenez – Program Coordinator at El/La Para TransLatinasa.
Gerard Koskovich- advisor and archival researcher in the field of LGBTQ history and culture.
Gayle S. Rubin- American cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and theorist of sex and gender politics.
Terry Beswick- Executive Director at GLBT Historical Society.
Moderated by Carol Queen, Ph.D – author, educator and founder of Center for Sex and Culture.

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