James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library

Very excited to share this important update on our digitization project of SF Bay Times! 🎉

https://sfbaytimes.com/partnership-with-james-c-hormel-lgbtqia-center-of-san-francisco-public-library-forges-increased-access/

Today at 1 p.m.! See the amazing Per Sia at Medicine for Nightmares!

TOMORROW in The Mission! 🌸📚 Exciting News! SFPL is partnering with the San Francisco Flor y Canto Literary Festival for a magical weekend in The Mission! 🎉✨

Join us for Drag Queen Storytime with the incredible PERSIA, a Latinx and non-binary youth educator, Drag Queen, and storyteller! 📖👑

📅 Date: June 24, 2024
⏰ Time: 1 PM
📍 Location: Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore y Galeria - 3036 24th St.

SFPL will be there with free book giveaways, button-making fun, and lots of library love! Don't miss out on this celebration of literature, art, and community spirit. Let's make memories together! 🌟❤️

Shouting out the incredible work that Fabulosa Books is doing to fight book bans! 🙌🏽 Grateful to the Los Angeles Times for shining a light this incredible work (and for including a bit about the Hormel Center in it!). 😁

Books Not Bans, the non-profit initiative started by our phenomenal event manager Becka, has been featured in today's LA Times🕺🏻Check it out! And next time you're in the store, please consider donating so we can continue to support our community and spread q***r joy & resistance across the nation :)

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We’re proud to intersect with and co-present Sally! on Wed. June 26 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. at KQED Studios! Get your tickets now for 11 days of world-renowned q***r films, performances, and parties. Journey with us across the intersections of LGBTQ+ identities and to theaters around the Bay Area. Explore more at frameline.org and 🎥🌈

We are so proud to know thatthe U.S. Embassy Luxembourg has partnered with the Ville de Luxembourg to honorarily re-name the street in front of the U.S. Embassy in honor of Ambassador Hormel during the months of June (U.S. pride month) and July (Luxembourg Pride Month)!

Happy ! We out here! San Francisco Public Library & of course the Hormel LGBTQIA Center team is out here giving away books from 10am-3pm in the gorgeous Presidio with our partners Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. Bring a windbreaker & sunnies and bring home a free LGBTQIA book. Did we mention DJ Brown Amy is spinning at a free tea party from 1-4pm too?

Happy Day! 🥳 We celebrate Harvey’s life and legacy on this day and EVERY DAY. ⬇️

✨Did you know that Hormel LGBTQIA Center archives is the proud home of Harvey Milk Archives – Scott Smith Collection?
🔉Did you know you can actually listen to Harvey’s “political will” on the digital archives ➡️ digitalsf.org?

🎁 Some additional digitized treasures for you:
📸 #1: Harvey Milk at the opening of his 1975 campaign for Supervisor
📸 #2, 3: Past celebrations by the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club
📂 All located in the Harvey Milk Archives-Scott Smith Collection (GLC 35)

🚪Our doors are open for you! Access the SFPL LGBTQIA+ archives every day through the Center located on Floor 6️⃣of the Main Library and at 🔗digitalsf.org.

Don’t miss this rare West Coast opportunity to see Kristen Lovell live in-person discussing her award-winning documentary, The Stroll, a film that reminds us that trans women of color and s*x workers continue to forge a path forward, thriving through their resilience, community organizing and sisterhood.

Tuesday, May 14, 5:30 p.m., Koret Auditorium, Main Library. Free event! 🏳️‍⚧️🎬

We are celebrating trans authors today (and everyday!) for Transgender Day of Visibility!

We ❤️ Fresno State students! Photo Curator Christina Moretta shared the wonders of the Hormel Center archives with this wonderfully engaged crew of students who are spending the weekend learning about SF q***r history. Highlight: Their collective excitement about getting a San Francisco Public Library card! 🤓

Happy Women's History Month! ICYMI...Recording of Jewelle Gomez and Torange Yeghiazarian in Conversation with Natalia Vigil thanks to the fantastic staff at New Conservatory Theatre Center. Jewelle's play, Unpacking in P'Town, is up through 3/31 and Torange's play, The Tutor, is on from 4/5-5/12/24.
✨Get ready for some wisdom and brilliance, people!

Panel with Playwrights Jewelle Gomez with Torange Yeghiazarian Celebrate Women’s History Month at James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center with a discussion featuring two extraordinary playwrights, Jewelle Gomez and Torange Yeghia...

We out here! So thrilled to partner with NCTC for Jewelle Gomez's new play, Unpacking in P'Town! 📚Book giveaways of Jewelle's books, library card sign-ups, and a tailored booklist by the Hormel Center librarian a lá nifty bookmark. Come see us tonight and Sunday, March 17.

🌜We are over the moon with the turnout (almost 2K!) at the first ever Pride in Panels: SF Q***r Comics Fest! A whole weekend of events, starting with a q***r comics reading at Silver Sprocket, followed by a screening of No Straight Lines: The Rise of Q***r Comics and then the main event at the Main Library of San Francisco Public Library was just PURE JOY and celebration of q***r comics and their incredibly talented creators. More photos to come! Thank you to everyone who made it out in the rain and made this event a total success!

The energy is so high at our screening of No Straight Lines: The Rise of Q***r Comics ✨ This panel is 🔥🔥🔥!!! Pride in Panels: SF Q***r Comics Fest is off to a fab start.

Did you know the Pride in Panels: SF Q***r Comics Fest starts this weekend with a Q***r Comics Reading with Laura Gao at Silver Sprocket. See you THIS Friday, Feb. 16 at 6 p.m.

Poster Art: Caroline Cash

So very excited for Pride in Panels: SF Q***r Comics Fest, coming up in a week! TY Bay Area Reporter for their fantastic article with Justin Hall: https://on.sfpl.org/BAR-PIP24. ✨

Pride in Panels: q***r comic books to be celebrated at SF’s main library On Sunday February 18 San Francisco’s main library will celebrate q***r comic books with an exhibition to remember. Titled "Pride in Panels: SF Q***r Comics Fest," the afternoon will bring together scores of q***r comic book creators.

The TGNC Health + Wellness Fair by The Transgender District is coming up this Thursday, 1/25, from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. at the Main Library. More details here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tgnc-health-and-wellness-community-fair-tickets-771841989167

Tomorrow's , we commemorate with Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five new videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability -- in partnerships with Visual AIDS.
👀See the trailer: https://vimeo.com/881846460.

This program features new work by Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria, Dorothy Cheung, Beau Gomez, Kurt Weston, and Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento. See the looping video in the Hormel Center reading room from December 1 through 2. Don't miss the community screening on December 2 at 4 p.m. with Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria:
https://sfpl.org/events/2023/12/02/film-day-without-art-2023-screening-and-post-film-discussion

Current exhibition on view through February 29, 2024 on the 3rd & 6th floors of the Main Library, AIDS Self-Portraits: Positive Art with a gorgeous complimentary catalog available for free at the SF History Center, 6th Floor. Don't miss it!

Read all about it! For the first time in our history, titles in our Hormel LGBTQIA Center reading room can be checked out and taken home. Learn more about the history and the important work that's being done right in the Main Library in the Bay Area Reporter article: https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=news&id=329887

SO proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability. Sat, 12/2. Screening at 4pm with Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria in person. 💗

https://sfpl.org/events/2023/12/02/film-day-without-art-2023-screening-and-post-film-discussion

Thanks to our friends at the Tenderloin Museum for sharing this fascinating newly found footage about Compton’s Cafeteria Riots!

ABC7 archival film sheds light on earliest known 'gay liberation' uprising in US A striking find in itself, historians now say this video may document the period of time before and after a riot in San Francisco that predated the Stonewall Uprising in New York.

TODAY, OCTOBER 17 from 6 to 7:30.
3rd Floor of SF Main Library.
Stop by and makes some zines! This will be the last Zinething for the year. We'll start up again in January.

Let yourself go... to Zinething! A monthly q***r zine workshop presented by SF Zine Fest in partnership with the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library. Open to new and experienced zinesters. Tell your story, tell your truth! Every 3rd Tuesday of the month.

Next meetup: Tuesday, October 17th from 6-7:30 pm at the Main Library.
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For more info: https://tinyurl.com/ZinethingSFPL

Let yourself go... to Zinething! A monthly q***r zine workshop presented by SF Zine Fest in partnership with the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library. Open to new and experienced zinesters. Tell your story, tell your truth! Every 3rd Tuesday of the month.

Next meetup: Tuesday, October 17th from 6-7:30 pm at the Main Library.
***restlibraryever

For more info: https://tinyurl.com/ZinethingSFPL

🗣️ Late breaking Q***R ECOLOGY program with Tim Morton (they/them) on WEDS. 8/30 at 3 p.m. Register: on.sfpl.org/eco8323

🌎 Learn about the benefits of a q***r ecology framework!

🤝 Hosted in partnership with the SFPL Environmental Center: https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library/environmental-center

We're still reveling in the ***rjoy from Remembering Club Q. A truly amazing event curated by the ever-talented Tanea De Frisco Viejo with Q***r Cultural Center featuring a star panel with Page Hodel, Aarin Burch, Richelle Donigan and Chloe Atkins.
📸Event photos by msanchez.studio are UP!
Tag 'em, share 'em, feel the love! 💓

Check out Gay Bob, a fun and fabulous item from the Hormel LGBTQIA Center Archives, and currently on display in the SF History Center! https://www.instagram.com/p/CvdSUZyOoeR/

With the recent release of Barbie, we’re celebrating Gay Bob’s legacy! Gay Bob, the openly gay doll who first stepped out of the closet in 1977, comes out to play at SFPL as a part of the Hormel LGBTQIA Center archival collections.  He comes with a “leather man purse” and has an inspiring message for all about the power of coming out and embracing your true self. If you can’t find a ticket to Barbie, come see Gay Bob in the SF History Center on the 6th Floor at the Main Library!