In 1965, Life magazine declared San Francisco the capital of gay America. And the Castro was its beating heart.

The reputation of San Francisco as a gay Mecca goes back to ... and that many locations that played a part in LGBT history are hidden in plain sight. Compton’s Cafeteria (Corner of Taylor ...

Going back to their original “Until There’s a Cure” Day in 1994, the San Francisco Giants have a long history of supporting the local LGBTQ+ community, and their annual Pride game is a staple of the ...

In his recollection of San Francisco’s LGBT history, GLBT Historical Society archivist Isaac Fellman told SFGATE that the origins of the modern movement began in California, with San Francisco ...

The course at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts will cover terminology, and the broad history of LGBT issues. "We'll look at what it's been like for gay men, what it's been like for ...

The Stonewall Inn in New York is currently the only LGBT National Historic Landmark. Nan Alamilla Boyd, a professor at San Francisco State and author of Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San ...

Leaders in San Francisco are blasting the Trump administration for stripping the name of gay icon Harvey Milk from a U.S.

With LGBT studies, our students will be learning about advocacy, being a good ally, and the history that shaped San Francisco and the LGBTQ community. And they'll be doing it at a watershed moment ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) -- Kids in California public schools will be the first to learn LGBT history as part of their schools' curriculum. In second grade, California students will learn about ...

at the center of the burgeoning LGBT movement. Even earlier progressive landmarks of San Francisco history, such as the general strike of 1934 and the demonstrations at the HUAC road show in 1960 ...

In a rapidly growing and gentrifying San Francisco, Ordeñana says that the Historical Society also wants to keep the Castro’s gay history in the present tense. The organization was able to ...