Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society

The archives of the GLBT Historical Society had a tremendously productive year. We received several important grants, digitized a substantial amount of material, and had a surge in new archival collections that greatly enriched our holdings. To accommodate our growing collections, we installed new shelving in our vault and upgraded our photography station for better digitization of textiles, works of art and artifacts. We also continued implementation of a new digital asset management system, which provides robust digital infrastructure and helps us better preserve and share digitized content. Visits to the reading room rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, with us welcoming over 350 onsite researchers working on diverse projects. (Cont'd at Schedule O)

Public Education Program: In 2022, most of our public education programming continued to be conducted virtually/online due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. We presented 8 talks on LGBTQ history to employee resource groups, nonprofits, and governmental agencies. Our monthly electronic newsletter, which highlighted work to preserve historic spaces and bring critical lost histories to light, from the LGBTQ Japanese prisoners of war to Black LGBTQ sites that have been long forgotten, had over 100,000 imprints. We also continued our sponsorship of 4 LGBTQ historical projects: an archives, a book, a film, and a historic site.

Public Exhibitions: The GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco remains a key setting for the GLBT Historical Society to share our past with LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ publics and to advocate for the preservation of queer and trans history and culture. We continued in 2022 to operate the museum with safety precautions including masks and vaccination requirements and presented our first new exhibitions in the museum space since the COVID-19 closure. We welcomed over 40 schools and organizations including San Francisco's only community college to the museum. We also presented 5 online public programs. We continue to be specifically guided by the areas of strategic focus as outlined in the society's five-year strategic plan: Women, bisexual people, transgender people, people with disabilities, Black people, Native/Indigenous people, Asian Americans, Latinx people.