Historypin Pinning Party | Wednesday 10 June 2015
California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco
6:00-7:30 PM
On June 10, 2015, join us for the first in a series of statewide events
for a new project called California
Pride: Mapping LGBTQ Histories. California Pride is designed to be an online, crowd-sourced archive of
memories, stories, and images related to sites throughout the Golden State
associated with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)
experience.
Bay Area lesbian history will be the focus of
the first California Pride pinning
party, although all LGBTQ stories and anyone interested in LGBTQ history are
welcome. In April 2015, San Francisco saw its last
full-time lesbian bar, the Lexington Club, close its doors for good—leaving the
city without a lesbian bar for the first time since the 1930s. The site of another beloved gathering spot, Amelia’s
on Valencia Street, is threatened with demolition.
The California
Pride pinning party will begin with a short presentation by the directors
of the Lexington Club Archival Project, an effort to document this popular
queer space. Attendees will then learn
how to “pin” their favorite LGBTQ historic sites to the California Pride map.
California Pride can help
bring awareness to the powerful, diverse stories that make up LGBTQ history —
from major events to commonplace histories of daily life. People with stories,
photos, flyers and other ephemera associated with LGBTQ history throughout the
Bay Area are invited to help build this on-line archive as well as people
interested in learning more about preserving California’s LGBTQ history are
encouraged to attend.
For more information on California Pride visit www.historypin.org/project/469-california-pride/ or contact sflgbthistory@gmail.com. To RSVP, go to http://capridepinningparty.eventbrite.com
This event is sponsored by the California
Historical Society and the GLBT Historical Society.
California Pride is
supported by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the California
Preservation Foundation.
