SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Just announced by Mayor London Breed, the Castro District will be the new home for the GLBT Historical Society. The society's historic museum has been looking for a new ...

Just in time for LGBTQ History Month, the San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society has chosen a new leader, and it's a familiar one to many in the community. Roberto Ordeñana who, until now, had been ...

The 153-year-old California Historical Society announced it has sunsetted its operations in downtown San Francisco, permanently closing the international orange-painted building housing its ...

The board’s decision to dissolve the society and transfer its collection follows a decade of failed attempts at a turnaround. In 2016, it was tapped by the city of San Francisco as its lead ...

Member of the San Francisco historical society dressed in period costume and posing at Dolores Park. Photo taken on April 18, 2025, by Abigail Vân Neely. A crowd gathers around the gilded fire hydrant ...

He and the San Francisco Historical Society were crucial in getting the city to christen the now-famous “Barbary Coast Trail” in the late 1990s.

Today, this one resides in San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society. (Rae Alexandra) Folsom St.’s first-ever leather bar opened on July 26, 1966, courtesy of owners Don Geist and John Kissinger, a ...

In 2022, San Francisco had more than 7,754 homeless people, approximately 4,400 of whom slept in the streets or inside a tent or vehicle, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Retail has also ...

Travel back in time to relive key moments in San Francisco history. State of play: The San Francisco Historical Society (SFHS ...