Part of the work of public programming is to level with the fact
that there are always gaps in the narrative, always stories that have not been
shared with your audiences, whether they be a result of bias, mistake, or
intention. To work in public programming means that you must look into yourself
and seek feedback from others, assess the menu you provide and ask yourself and
your department key questions such as: What is missing? Who is not being heard?
Who should tell those stories?
Oftentimes speakers, staff members, and colleagues from across
the cultural institution spectrum come to you with thoughts on programming,
which was the case with the set of four programs we are presenting this June to
celebrate, honor, and share the histories of LGBTQA+ in California.
Susan Anderson, Director of Collections, Library, Exhibitions,
and Programs at CHS and I worked closely to design these programs and sought
ideas and feedback from CHS staff, archival institutions, historians, and those
within the communities whose history we are presenting. We are honored to share
these programs with you and hope to see you at one (or more of them)!
Tuesday, June 11, 2019, 6:00PM
Transgender History: The Roots of
Today's Revolution
Presentation and Audience Q&A
$5 General Admission, Free for CHS and Tenderloin Museum Members
+ one guest
In partnership with the Tenderloin Museum
Join us for an evening with award-winning scholar and filmmaker
Susan Stryker as she presents on the newest edition of her book, Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s
Revolution (Seal Press 2008, 2017), with particular emphasis on San
Francisco's rich transgender history, from the 19th century to the present.
About
our Speaker:
Susan Stryker is an award-winning scholar and filmmaker whose
historical research, theoretical writing, and creative works have helped shape
the cultural conversation on transgender topics since the early 1990s. Dr.
Stryker earned her Ph.D. in United States History at the University of
California-Berkeley in 1992, later held a Ford Foundation/Social Science
Research Council post-doctoral fellowship in sexuality studies at Stanford
University, and has been a distinguished visiting faculty member at Harvard
University, Yale University, Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins University,
University of California-Santa Cruz, Macquarie University in Sydney, and Simon
Fraser University in Vancouver. She is the author, co-author, editor, or
co-editor of numerous books and anthologies, including Gay by the Bay: A
History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle 1996), Queer
Pulp: Perverse Passions in the Golden Age of the Paperback (Chronicle 2000),
The Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge 2006), The Transgender Studies Reader
2 (2013) and Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (Seal Press
2008, 2017).
Her academic articles have appeared in such publications as GLQ:
A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Radical History Review, South Atlantic
Quarterly, Parallax, Australian Feminist Studies, Social Semiotics, and Journal
of Women’s History, while her public scholarship has appeared in Aperture,
Wired, The Utne Reader, and Slate.com. She won an Emmy Award for her
documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (ITVS 2005),
and is also the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award (2006), the Ruth Benedict
Book Prize (2013), the Monette-Horowitz Prize for LGBTQ activism (2008), the
Transgender Law Center’s Community Vanguard Award (2003), two career
achievement awards in LGBTQ Studies—the David Kessler Award in from the City
University of New York’s Center for LGBT Studies in 2008, Yale University’s
Brudner Memorial Prize in 2015, and a Local Genius Award from MOCA Tucson in
2018. Dr. Stryker served for several years as Executive Director of the GLBT
Historical Society in San Francisco (1999-2003), and for five years as Director
of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona (2011-2016),
where she is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and coordinator
of the university’s Transgender Studies Initiative. In addition to serving as
founding co-editor of the academic journal TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly,
she is currently developing several media projects and has a book under
contract to Farrar Straus Giroux, What Transpires Now, about the uses of
transgender history for the present.
About the Book:
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth
century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the
subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements,
writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite
communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social
change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual
Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-’70s to 1990-the era of
identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these
years; and the gender issues witnessed through the ’90s and ’00s.
Transgender History includes informative sidebars highlighting
quotes from major texts and speeches in transgender history and brief
biographies of key players, plus excerpts from transgender memoirs and
discussion of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Major!
The life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
A film screening
$5 General Admission, Free Admission for CHS Members + one guest
Join us for a film screening of MAJOR!, a film that follows the
life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a 73-year-old Black transgender
woman who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for more
than 40 years. It is a story of one woman’s journey, a community’s history, and
how caring for one another can be a revolutionary act.
Miss Major’s personal story and activism for transgender civil
rights, from mobile outreach and AIDS prevention to fighting the prison
industrial complex intersects LGBT struggles for justice and equality from the
1960s and today. She is a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion and was
incarcerated at Attica months after the 1971 Uprising. Most recently, Miss
Major has served as the executive director of the San Francisco-based
Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), a grassroots
organization advocating for trans women of color in and outside of prison that
is led by trans women of color.
Miss Major’s extraordinary life and personal story is one of
resilience and celebration within a community that has historically been
traumatized and marginalized. While mainstream gay rights and marriage equality
dominate the headlines, Miss Major’s life is a testament to fierce survivalism
and the everyday concerns of transgender women of color, who so often live in
the margin of the already marginalized.
About
the Filmmakers:
Annalise Ophelian (producer/director) is an award-winning
filmmaker, psychologist, and consultant whose work includes Diagnosing
Difference (2009). She identifies as a white, queer, cis woman, and her work
focuses on decolonizing and the documentary filmmaking process.
StormMiguel Florez (co-producer/editor) is a Xicano transgender
musician and multi-media artist. He is the owner of Bad Flower Productions,
providing services to queer and trans artists of color to help bring their
creative projects to life.
Thursday, June 20, 2019, 6:00PM
Call
and Response: Curator Swap
20-minute presentations at each organization
Free for Third Thursday
The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM), California Historical
Society (CHS) and Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) launch a new
progressive gallery talk. Educators and curators examine work in each museum's
exhibitions in connection with Pride.
We will begin at MoAD at 6pm, spend 20 minutes in each space,
moving on next to CHS and concluding at the CJM. Join us to learn new
perspectives and create connections with neighboring Yerba Buena institutions.
Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 6:00PM
California's
"Gay Revolution" in the Stonewall Era
A Presentation and Audience Q&A
$5 General Admission, Free Admission for CHS Members + one guest
On the Fourth of July in 1969, the Berkeley Barb published one
of the earliest media reports on the Stonewall Riots in New York City. The
article was authored by Leo Laurence, one of the co-founders of San Francisco’s
Committee for Homosexual Freedom, and “Gays Hit NY Cops” began by declaring,
“Homosexuals took to the streets in New York City last weekend and joined the
revolution.” Laurence’s account was supportive of the rioters, but deliberately
noted that those who had fought back at Stonewall were “joining” rather than
“starting” the revolution. J. Marks, identified as the author of Rock and Other
Four-Letter Words and an eyewitness to the riots, was quoted as telling
Laurence, “The gay community in New York City has been inspired by your
homosexual liberation stories in the BARB.” These stories, which began
appearing several months before Stonewall had reported on the Bay Area’s “gay
revolution” as well as the alliances that gay radicals had tried to forge with
other leftist movements, and the demonstrations that CHF had organized to
protest police violence, capitalist exploitation, and the war machine.
This presentation introduces a set of California developments
that are highlighted in Marc Stein’s forthcoming book, The Stonewall Riots: A
Documentary History (NYU Press, June 2019). After reviewing pre-Stonewall
direct action protests in California, the presentation turns to the Stonewall
era, focusing on how news about the riots reached the West Coast, how
Californians viewed the uprising in relation to pre-Stonewall developments, and
how Golden State residents responded to the news from New York.
About
our Speaker:
Marc Stein is the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History
at San Francisco State University and the vice chair of the GLBT Historical
Society Board of Directors. He is the author of City of Sisterly and Brotherly
Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia (University of Chicago Press, 2000), Sexual
Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (University of North
Carolina Press, 2010), and Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (Routledge,
2012). He also served as editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of LGBT History in
America (Scribners, 2003) and guest editor of the Homophile Internationalism
special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality (2017). His next book, The
Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History, will be published in June 2019 by NYU
Press. To learn more about the book, explore its NYU Page.
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Museums
with Pride
See our staff on the parade route with the Museums with Pride
contingent! Celebrate with us as we walk with fellow institutions like the Exploratorium,
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, SFMOMA, American Bookbinders Museum, Museum
of African Diaspora, Asian Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, The
Contemporary Jewish Museum, Walt Disney Family Museum, California Academy of
Sciences, and more!
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Written by Patricia Pforte, Public Programs and Visitor Experience Manager at California Historical Society
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