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From the Martin-Lyon House and Harvey Milks Castro Camera to SF Eagle and Transgender District, SFs LGBTQ history is easy to find.

A San Francisco historic advisory panel is recommending that city officials landmark the South of Market Eagle bar for its importance to the leather and LGBTQ communities. It is set to become the eighth property in the city with ties to LGBTQ history to be designated a city landmark and the first related to leather history. It will also be the second leather Eagle bar in the country to be deemed a city landmark. Atlanta officials christened their Eagle bar, which opened in 1987, a city landmark...

The San Francisco home of the co-founders of the countrys first lesbian rights organization is now a city landmark.

A Japantown site has become only the second local historic property related to San Franciscos Japanese community and the fifth having to do with the LGBTQ community to be recognized as a city landmark. It is also the first property tied to the citys Japanese American community to be designated a city, state and national landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted 11-0 Tuesday, April 13, in support of landmarking the Japanese YWCA/Issei Womens Building at 1830 Sutter Street. It will need to vote a ...

A historic Japantown site with ties to LGBTQ history is close to becoming the first property tied to San Franciscos Japanese American community to be designated a city, state and national landmark. Having already won California and federal recognition, the site is set to secure city recognition later this month. The Board of Supervisors land use and transportation committee voted 3-0 Monday in support of naming the Japanese YWCA/Issei Womens Building at 1830 Sutter Street a city landmark. The f...

Three LGBTQ community leaders have won appointment to San Franciscos Immigrant Rights Commission, helping to double queer representation on the civic advisory body. At its March 9 meeting, the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted 11-0 to seat the trio of out applicants along with three straight people seeking to be reappointed. Commissioner Jessy Ruiz Navarro, who is originally from Mexico and the advisory bodys lone transgender member, secured her reappointment. When she joined in 2019 Navar...

The members of a San Francisco supervisors panel are recommending that their colleagues start the process to landmark a gay-owned bar in the citys South of Market district. At its meeting January 25 the supervisors land use and transportation committee unanimously voted 3-0 in support of having the citys historic preservation commission consider if the Eagle Bar, an important entertainment venue located in the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District, should be designated a city landmark. It would b...

Hearings on requests from supervisors to landmark two LGBTQ historic sites in San Francisco are expected to take place in the coming weeks. If approved for listing, they would bring the number of properties in the city granted local landmark status specifically for their ties to LGBTQ history to six. At its February 17 meeting the citys Historic Preservation Commission is scheduled to vote on landmarking the home where the late lesbian pioneering couple Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin lived through...

A San Francisco supervisor is open to landmarking the Bank of America building in the Castro after the financial giant initially posted signs that appeared to ban impromptu memorials. A group of LGBTQ community members reclaimed the memorial space at the intersection of Castro and 18th streets January 18 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day — and posted memorials of recently-deceased Black LGBTQ leaders after the bank removed the signs. The office of gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman indic...