San Francisco’s gay community are smiling today, as "one of the great ground zeroes of queer liberation," the Castro becomes the site of the nation's first lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history museum today.
"Our letters were burned, our names blotted out, our books censored, our love declared unspeakable, our very existence denied," spell out words from a 1979 SF Gay History Project flyer inscribed along one of the museum's walls.
Now, objects from the kitchen table and pink-framed sunglasses that belonged to Harvey Milk - who became the first elected openly gay politician in California by becoming a member of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors - to manuscripts and sex toys, are on display at the 1,600-square-foot space at 4127 18th St.
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