Acknowledgements

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            SF State student researchers on this project included:

From History 485 (U.S. History of Sexuality since 1900) in Spring 2019: Alan Batt, Nicole Cadavona, Favio Delgadillo, Kyla Finger, Akaelah Flotho, Maggie Ford, Caitlin Ghan, Kacey Hile, Samantha Ingerman, Sophie Johnstone, Jordan Juniel, Ellen Mendoza, Adam Nichols, and Nicole Rose.

From History 702 (Sexuality in Historical Perspective) in Spring 2022: Kat Coykendall, Gustavo Fierros, Agustín Ruvalcaba, Niko Sigua, Thomas Traverso, Ruth Truman.

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Cesar Chavez Center, San Francisco State University, Feb. 2025. Photograph by Zach Greenberg.

From History 485 (U.S. History of Sexuality since 1900) in Fall 2022: Juliet Alvarado, Emily Foley, Zachary Greenberg, Vianey Gutiérrez, Chloe Hartman, Zachary Horovitz, Nikolai Isaksen, Nicolette Kafetas, Alani Liang, Amy Méndez, Phyllis Moodie, Ailsa Muir, Diego Paredes, Yesenia Quiñones-Martínez, Daniel Rodis, Tabytha Rummage, Violet Scott-Street, Gabrielle Smardo, Giselle Soliz.

            SF State research assistants on this project included Adam Nichols, Jennifer Zoland, and Zachary Greenberg. Zach in particular collected hundreds of student newspaper articles and helped construct the online exhibit.

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Entrance sign at 19th Ave. and Holloway Ave., San Francisco State University, Feb. 2025. Photograph by Zach Greenberg.

           

            Several archivists, librarians, and editors supported work on this project; I am especially grateful to Meredith Eliasson (SFSU University Archives), Isaac Fellman (GLBT Historical Society), Tanya Hollis (SFSU Labor Archives and Research Center), Catherine Powell (SFSU Labor Archives and Research Center), and Mary Ann Irwin (California History).

            Work on this exhibit was supported by a 2024 Marcus Transformative Research Award, presented by the SF State College of Liberal & Creative Arts, and the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair in U.S. History and Constitutional Law. For earlier opportunities to present this work, I thank the San Francisco Public Library (2022) and the Labor Archives Research Center at SF State (2022). For their comments on earlier drafts, I thank Mario Burrus, Robert Cherny, Sarah Crabtree, Sarah Curtis, Jessica Elkind, Trevor Getz, Joseph Illick, William Issel, Haeyoung Kim, Laura Lisy-Wagner, Barbara Loomis, Kym Morrison, Jorge Olivares, Clare Sears, Josh Sides, and Amy Sueyoshi.