Lizzie Glide built the Glide Memorial Evangelistic Center on Taylor and Ellis in 1929. As a lay evangelist of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, she built it as a place
Glide Memorial Church is celebrating Banned Books throughout the month of August. We acknowledge that those who first dared to write our sacred texts and craft it into a cannon
The following historical information was included in Glide Memorial Church’s Historic Building Application. You can read more about our building and find the footnotes for this document here. Lizzie Glide
As noted in the section on the National Sex and Drug Forum (NSDF), Glide’s work on combatting drug addiction started in the late 1960s with NSDF co-founder Dr. Joel Fort.
Cecil Williams was an early leader in efforts to reform the justice and prison systems. “My charge was to think about the American tendency to put black people in chains
Rev. Lloyd Wake was born in 1922 in Reedley, California to Japanese immigrant parents. In 1942-1943, during World War II, Wake and his family were incarcerated at the Poston Relocation
Using a small grant from the Glide Urban Center, the Black Man’s Free Store opened in the Western Addition (1099 McAllister Street) in May 1967. The concept was first proposed
The National Sex and Drug Forum237 (NSDF), later the National Sex Forum (NSF) and ultimately the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (IASHS) was founded in 1968 at the
Sponsored by the Glide Urban Center and the San Francisco Foundation in 1967, Huckleberry’s for Runaways was likely the first organization in the country to provide housing and support for
Although only active from 1966 to 1969, Vanguard is described by several historians as prefiguring subsequent stages of the gay rights movement.223 Organized by Tenderloin youth, Vanguard drew in young
