...Don Romesburg The GLBT History Museum's 2011 opening in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood was the culmination of over a quarter century of collecting, preserving, and interpreting the Bay Area's queer history. The museum is a project of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical...

... and GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) relationships are historically inter- twined with a politics that exceeds family issues, a politics of state banditry and warmed-over imperial ventures. In the United States following 9/11, the age-old right to habeas...

... 10.1215/01636545-1504921 © 2012 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 99 100   Radical History Review Vanguard “Fall Clean Up,” 1966. Vanguard Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, October 1966. Courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society accompanying the photos, “and we wanted...

... as well as the opinions of Tom Roth, the agency’s president. On December 5, 2006, for instance, CMI conducted a workshop at the Holiday Inn in Victoria, British Columbia, that drew over fifty local tourism operators eager to learn how to attract GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) spenders...

..., and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform (2008), coeditor of the RHR special issue “Queer Futures” (2008), and cofounder of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project, which published the book Queer Twin Cities (2010). Don Romesburg chairs Sonoma State University’s Women’s and Gender Studies Depart- ment...

... and Mollycoddles: Political Manhood in the Progressive Era (2008) and is coeditor, with members of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project, of a book tentatively titled “Queer Twin Cities: Politics, Histories, Spaces.” Tavia Nyong’o is an assistant professor of performance studies at New York University...

... with female-to-male people, on the grounds that the for- mer were really men and the latter were really women; and, putting a somewhat finer point on the matter, those who conceptualized “T” as an identity category analogous to “GLB” and who advocated for a GLBT community on that basis. In the first...

... GLBT Historical Society in 2007 – 2011, during which time he was awarded the American Histori- cal Association’s 2010 Allan Bérubé Prize for outstanding work in public GLBT history. He is now a PhD student in American Studies at Yale University. Claire Bond Potter is professor of history...

... that, in the archive, it is always “a naming time.” Thus, alongside our interest in the contemporary transitional moment in les- bian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT, also GLBT) archives and what it might illustrate in terms of the relationship between history, memory, politics, and the conditions...

... museums as exhibitors of the illicit accompany renewed efforts to incorporate lesbian and gay sexualities and gender-­queer identi- ties into public display spaces, as in the recently opened GLBT History Museum in San Francisco, the controversial exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire...

... that the archives rewrite histories of criminal subversion and leave a legal transcript in ways that “dignify the guerrillero, not the assassin.” Joey Plaster introduces us to homeless GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender)13 youth in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, who in 2011 armed...

...Figure 3. Chicano Boycott Flier, ca. 1980s. LGBT General Subjects Collection, Courtesy of GLBT Historical Society. ...

... in the city. Alternatively, the GLBT Historical Society, a community-­based institution in San Francisco, has continu- ously preserved queer history in a community archive, collecting stunning historical material on a range of sexual practices from leather to bondage. In 2011, the society opened...

... Douglas File, Ephemera Collection, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society, San Francisco, CA. Lewis | The Haunting of the Transgender Archive   33 49. Ibid., 22. 50. “Transsexuals Hex Robin Morgan,” Advocate, July 18, 1973, 21...

... of the RHR special issue “Queer Futures” (2008), and cofounder of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project, which published the book Queer Twin Cities (2010). Joan Nestle’s most recent work is a special issue of Sinister Wisdom, coedited with Yas- min Tambiah on the theme of lesbians and exile (no. 94...

..., Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society of Northern California, San Francisco (hereafter GLBT Historical Society), Box 1, Fol. 16. 18. Don Jackson, “The Daddy Tank,” Gay Sunshine, no. 1 (1972): 3. 19. “Women Hit Jail Treatment,” Advocate, July 10, 1972, 14. 20. “We Mean Business,” Lesbian...

... kinds of people we are through the mutually con- stitutive interplay of psychical, social, and environmental forces. I should note that I was doing this work while deeply involved with the GLBT [Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender] Historical Society in San Francisco, initially as a volunteer...

... GLBT and other queer-identified people have formed communities of tolerance, protection, and care in hostile environments. In doing so, they speak to arguments established in Christina Hanhardt’s research on the politics of violence, safety, and space in US cities (some of which appeared in issue 100...