Image of speaker and historic photo of two men driving toward San Francisco.

Presentation: Chronicling San Francisco in the Century Before Stonewall

Tuesday, 6/23/2020
7:00 - 8:00
Virtual Library

United States

Take a journey through the 100 years leading up to the pivotal Stonewall Rebellion of 1969. Queer historian Jim Van Buskirk presents a visual timeline of the many pioneering individuals, organizations, publications and activities in San Francisco that helped paved the way for the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement. The Stonewall Rebellion – a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations led by queer people against a police raid in Greenwich Village, New York – is celebrated worldwide as sparking the modern lesbian and gay civil rights movement.

Jim Van Buskirk was the founding Program Manager of the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the San Francisco Public Library, and currently works as a book group facilitator, writer, editor, public speaker, exhibit curator and collections manager. He co-authored Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and Celluloid San Francisco, and co-edited Identity Envy: Wanting to Be Who We're Not and Love, Castro Street: Reflections of San Francisco. He has contributed to various newspapers, magazines, anthologies, websites, blogs and radio broadcasts.    

Reservations required: https://bit.ly/SFStnwll2020


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For more resources, the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center is the gateway to the Library’s broader collections documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual history and culture, with a special emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area.

This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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This program will be conducted in English unless otherwise noted.

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