It's the holiday season! A time for family, and, in particular our "chosen" LGBTQ families. I spent my Thanksgiving with friends of many years and had a lovely holiday-I hope you all did too. But it's important to remember that the holiday season can be difficult for many of our community members. Many LGBTQ people either are not welcome home for the holidays, or choose not to go rather than be subjected to mistreatment by family-the very ones who are supposed to love them unconditionally. So, if you are lucky enough to have a loving accepting family to go home to for the holidays (like I do), remember that another community member may need the invitation to join you where it's safe. If you are not so lucky, remember that you are not alone, and that many LGBTQ persons have instead built their own "chosen" families of friends and loved ones.

And if you are free tonight, check out

Fighting Back: Race & the LGBTQ Community

November 28, 2017, 7 p.m.-9 p.m

 

The latest in the GLBT Historical Society's monthly "Fighting Back" series exploring contemporary queer-community issues in a historical context, "Race and the LGBTQ Community" will offer a multigenerational conversation about race relations among LGBTQ people.

A panel of historians, veteran organizers and younger activists (see below) will discuss the how the LGBTQ community has dealt with issues of race over time and how this history of challenges and successes can help inform today's intersectional resistance movements.

LOCATION
The GLBT History Museum
4127 18th St., San Francisco
www.glbthistory.org/museum

ADMISSION
Free; $5.00 donation welcome