exhibitions
On View at the Museum
Photograph by Dave Earl.
Queer Past Becomes Present
Main Gallery
Our long-term exhibition at the GLBT Historical Society Museum showcases photos, documents and artifacts telling the amazing stories of over a century of everyday queer life among the diverse populations of San Francisco.
Photograph by Matthew Leifheit, courtesy of the Gilbert Baker Foundation.
The Original Rainbow Flag
Main Gallery
In 2021 the Gilbert Baker Foundation donated a recently discovered segment of one of the original 1978 eight-color rainbow flags to the GLBT Historical Society. The flag segment is now part of the Gilbert Baker Collection (2017-18), GLBT Historical Society.
Matchmaking in the Archive
Community Gallery
A curated selection of images from E.G. Crichton’s Matchmaking in the Archive project, in celebration of the launch of her new book.
Doris Fish: Ego as Artform
Opens April 21, 2023
This exhibition includes pieces from Doris’s personal and professional life, and showcase the power of drag to change the world.
Online Exhibitions
The GLBT Historical Society has curated over a dozen online exhibitions since 2019. Some are adapted from exhibitions that were on display at the museum; others are native digital shows. These are two of our most recent online exhibitions; click the button below to go to a page listing all of our online exhibitions.
Past Exhibitions
Click the button below to go to a comprehensive listing of exhibitions mounted since 2013, with images and descriptions of each show.
Banner image: The Dykes on Bikes, 1986; photograph by Chloe Atkins, used with permission, all rights reserved.