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.

How-To Contribute to this Project

Here are some helpful resources for contributing to California Pride on Historypin:

Before adding to California Pride, you must first create a free Historypin profile. Here is a short video on how to create and customize your profile.

Short video on how-to pin to California Pride on Historypin. Remember that you must pin through the project page in order for your content to appear in the project.

To learn more about all of Historypin's features more generally, check-out this complete User Guide (click image).

If you have any general questions about using Historypin, please email Kerri Young kerri.young@historypin.org.

About California Pride

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.