California Pride: Mapping LGBTQ Histories is designed to be an online archive of memories, stories, and images related to sites throughout the Golden State that are associated with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) experience in California.
LGBTQ history is best told by the people who have lived it. Your pins will help make California Pride a reflection of the diverse places that define LGBTQ experience. Where was the heart of your LGBTQ community? Where did you attend activist meetings or go to cultural events? Where were the great house parties? What was your favorite bar or club? Where did you shop for books, music, and clothes?
California Pride is led by architectural historian Shayne Watson and public historian Donna Graves. The project is supported by a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and fiscal sponsorship by the California Preservation Foundation.
This project builds on two recent studies in San Francisco and Los Angeles that document the critical role California has played in LGBTQ history in the United States: the Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco, co-authored by Donna Graves and Shayne Watson; and the LGBT Historic Context Statement for Los Angeles, authored by Teresa Grimes, Laura O’Neill and Amanda Yoder of GPA Consulting.
If you'd like to get in contact or have any questions, please email: sflgbthistory@gmail.com.
California Pride banner images courtesy of GLBT Historical Society and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives.
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