News Briefs: GLBT Historical Society Museum reopens
The GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro district reopened this week after being closed for a month due to the Omicron surge of the COVID-19 pandemic.According to a news release, the reopening also inaugurates a new schedule for the museum, which will now be Wednesdays through Sundays from 11 a.m.
to 5 p.m. and closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.Visitors to the museum, located at 4127 18th Street, can experience two exhibitions currently on display.
The front gallery hosts "Performance, Protest, and Politics: The Art of Gilbert Baker." It uses textiles, costumes, photographs, and ephemera to paint a complex portrait of Baker (1951-2017), who co-created the rainbow flag.
As the Bay Area Reporter has previously reported, Baker came up with a rainbow flag design that had eight colored stripes with the help of his friends Lynn Segerblom, who now lives in Southern California, and James McNamara, who died of AIDS-related complications in 1999.
