GLBT Historical Society Museum
Storefront museum of queer history holding Harvey Milk's assassination-day clothes and his old camera shop artifacts.
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This guide to the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco opens with the bloodstained clothes Harvey Milk was wearing when he was shot inside City Hall in 1978, and follows how they passed from his partner Scott Smith to a band of archivists determined to save gay history from disappearing. It traces that collection's decades in cramped rooms and basements, back to founders Willie Walker and Greg Pennington pooling their own newspapers in 1985, up to this storefront's opening on Eighteenth Street.
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