Summer Social: Queerest Library Ever Curator Talk with Jim Van Buskirk on Tuesday, June 28

Tommy's Place, circa 1952. Grace Miller Papers, LGBTQIA Center, SF Public Library 

ARLIS/NA members and future members are invited --

Please join us on Tuesday, June 28 from 6-8 PM for Queerest.Library.Ever. gallery talk 

with curator Jim Van Buskirk* 

Main Library, San Francisco Public Library

6:00 - 6:45 -- meet in the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center - 3rd Floor

Exhibition “Hormel at 20” + wine and nibbles mingle

6:45 - 7:45 -- proceed to Jewett Gallery for “Celebrating The Past/Creating The Future” 

with Jim's gallery talk 

Please share and RSVP on the Facebook event 

or RSVP to the Vice Chair Christina Moretta 

Details about the Queerest.Library.Ever. exhibition 

*Jim Van Buskirk is former Chair of the ARLIS/NA Northern California Chapter and founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Interests Round Tables of both California Library Association (CLA) and ARLIS/NA. Some of Jim's publications include Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle Books, 1996) co-authored with Susan Stryker, which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and Celluloid San Francisco: The Film Lover’s Guide to Bay Area Movie Locations (Chicago Review Press, 2006) co-authored with Will Shank. 

Birthday party, circa 1960s. Eddie Van Papers, LGBTIA Center, SF Public Library