Story Gathering Event for Citywide Historic Context Statement held at The Women's Building. Photo: Shayne Watson
The Historic Context Statement can be downloaded here
"Our Stories" Workshop at LGBTQ Community Center was organized to ensure better representation of transgender and POC people’s histories. Photo: Donna Graves
We collaborated with StoryCorps to gather recorded interviews representing a range of LGBTQ experiences. Donna Graves recorded interviews with activist Roma Guy, and Diane Jones, one of the first AIDS nurses in San Francisco.
Flyer announcing statewide effort to gather and map California’s LGBTQ histories.
"Pinning" Workshop for California Pride at California Historical Society. Photo: Shayne Watson
Graves led a project to document and interpret LGBTQ stories of the WWII home front for Rosie the Riveter after successfully arguing that the park needed to add the contributions and experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people during
The San Francisco Women’s Building, founded by a predominately lesbian group of women, has been a center for organizing among LGBTQ people, ethnic/racial communities, immigrants, people with disabilities and other marginalized communities of the Ba
As Carmen Vazquez, one of The Women’s Building’s early leaders states, the building was “a critical site for the development of the women’s movement in San Francisco that had a strong foundation in a progressive race-class analysis.” Photo: The Oakl
Built in 1932, the Japanese YWCA held a wide range of events associated with social justice. After all people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from the West Coast and incarcerated, the American Friends Service Committee leased the building
In 1943, young African American activist Bayard Rustin (2nd from right) ran campaigns and workshops on housing and civil rights from the Japanese YWCA building. Later, Rustin was a central organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Although he was f
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