Glide Memorial Church and the GLIDE Foundation have worked together to support, give voice to and provide life saving health care services to the LGBTQIA+ community for sixty years.  This exhibit shares some of the ways that Glide Pride has transformed the world since 1963.

• Introduction
• Revival and a New Way of Listening
• Council on Religion and the Homosexual
• The Raid at California Hall
• San Francisco Police Department Reform Efforts
• Vanguard
• The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot
• The Night of the Purple Hand
• Creating a Gay Community Center
• Mobile Health, Sex and Drugs
• Conversion Our Goal (Trans Care and Support)
• Support Groups and the Glide Pride Team
• Harvey Milk
• HIV/AIDS Care and Activism
• Randy Shilts’ Funeral
• Sylvester
• Employment Equity
• Marriage Equality and Family Rights
• LGBTQ Leadership at Glide Church
• Publications
• Pride Sunday Celebrations
• Pride Parade
• Walking Tour Maps
• Conclusion

This exhibit was curated by Megan Rohrer (he/him), Glide’s Senior Church Communications Specialist.  Megan was an associate curator on the GLBT Historical Society Museum’s inaugural exhibit, Our Vast Queer Past.  His online exhibit, Man-i-fest: FTM Mentorship in San Francisco, 1976-2009, won of OutHistory’s Since Stonewall Local History Competition.  A prolific author and finalist for the Lambda Literary award in transgender non-fiction, Megan co-edited (with Joey Plaster) Vanguard Revisited: The Queer Faith, Sex & Politics of the Youth of San Francisco’s Tenderloin.

Special Thanks:  We are grateful to the following individuals, organizations and institutions who helped make this exhibit possible.

• The GLBT Historical Society
• The ONE Archive at the USC Libraries
• The LGBT Religious Archives Network
• The San Francisco History Center of the San Francisco Public Library
• The Bob Fitch Photography Archive at Stanford Libraries
• The Pacifica Radio Archives
• The UC San Francisco Library Archives and Special Collections
• The ELCA Region 2 Archive
• Marilyn Kincaid
• Vicky Lee
• Susan Stryker
• Joseph Plaster
• Paul Gabriel

If this exhibit has inspired you to learn more about Glide Pride, you can connect here.

If this exhibit has inspired you to help support Glide Pride for the next 60 years you can make a donation here.