A healthier, stronger and more equitable world for you!


Search this site



Get eNews


  
Arts & Culture

Call for Art Submissions from Artists who had shows at the SF LGBT Center over the last 10 years.

The 10th Anniversary of the SF LGBT Center is here and in honor of the artists that have shown here over the past 10 years, we are happy to announce this call for artwork for our 10th Anniversary show. We are asking all the artists that have shown at the Center to submit between 1-3 pieces of art for a building wide show. This show will coincide with our 10th Anniversary Party, and is sure to get a lot of attention. We want to thank you all for your continued support of the LGBT community, and the ARTS! Please contact us if you would like to participate in this unique opportunity to showcase your work.

The SF Center’s 10th Anniversary Show : March 9th – April 20th
This building wide show features the fantastic diversity of art from artists that have displayed their work at the Center over the last 10 years.

Submission requirements:
     1. Artwork should be 2d or 3d work, ready to hang, or display, preferably representative of your overall style.
     2. Artwork that has relevance to the LGBT community is encouraged
     3. Please submit photos or website links to the work that will be displayed.
     4. Please submit a small bio and a picture for our directory of artists.

Space is limited and will be reviewed in the order it is submitted, so the sooner the better. Send submitions to milap@sfcenter.org

The Center offers opportunities for the entire LGBT community to experience art, culture, and social interaction in a stimulating environment.

  • The Center's Gallery offers a museum-quality space dedicated to showing the work of established and emerging artists.
  • The Rainbow Room, a 2,300 square foot multipurpose room, has held cabaret performances, youth dances, comedy shows and film screenings.
  • Exhibitions hung throughout the building give community members a comprehensive arts experience. We present between five and seven building-wide shows a year.
  • We offer youth art classes, culminating in exhibitions at The Center.



The Center collaborates with community groups to fulfill our mission of giving visibility to the culture, history, and diversity of our community. Through arts, culture, and social activities, we help the community grow and flourish, connect and interact.

  • The Queer Cultural Center acts with The Center to host visual art exihibits and the Center is proud to co-host The Q-Ball, the opening to the National Queer Arts Festival.
  • Frameline, the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival, hosts free screenings for the community of powerful films each month.
  • Hundreds of performances, films, readings, and mixers are held in The Center's Spencer Andrew Ceremonial Room every year.
  • Events occur with various community groups including youth, elders, people of color, women, deaf and hard of hearing people, parents and children, newcomers to San Francisco and people with HIV.
  • Recent social activities include community forums, holiday parties, and celebrations of significant social or legal victories.
 
 
 


Current Exhibit

Queer Ancestors: An Exhibition of Prints
by Queer Young Artists

Free Artist Reception With Print Sale
Thursday, January 26, 7 to 9 pm
The LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street
Queer young artists are turning to the past to carve a sound legacy for the future. They find ancestors to guide them and from bent blades create bold accounts of buried history depicting the, musicians, writers, activists, and other Queer ancestors who never made it to our history books. Some are imagined histories, created from sweat and need; others are familiar, including Harry Hay, José Sarria, Arthur Evans, Zora Neale Hurston, Divine, Cherríe Moraga, William S. Burroughs, Bayard Rustin, Keith Haring, Claude McKay, and Freddie Mercury. Documenting their encounters with the past and creating images from their own experiences of love, lust, violence, fear, and rapture, Queer emerging artists pave our path to the future.
The San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center and The Queer Cultural Center present "Queer Ancestors," an exhibition of prints by Queer young artists Erika Vivianna Céspedes, Jeff Cheung, Ángel Espinoza, A. Lolade Gbadebo, Alan Guttirez, Haruka Kelley, Justin Time , Brandon Middleton, Brianne Moore, Eva Ovalle, and Anna Robinson. See their explorations of Queer Ancestry through the meditative art of printmaking from January 18th to February 16th at the LGBT Community Center. Free artist reception with print sale Thursday, January 26th from 7 to 9 pm. For more information contact katie@katiegilmartin.com. This exhibition generously supported by The San Francisco Arts Commission, The LGBT Community Center, The Queer Cultural Center, SOMArts, Chrysalis Studio, and The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

If you are interested in submitting an application to exhibit your work at The Center, please download the application and e-mail as an attachment to artandculture@sfcenter.org.

    

Queer Aperture
The Center and Queer Cultural Center are excited to present “Queer Aperture,” photography by Jeffrey Horvitz. Featuring community members, cultural, civic/political leaders and allies of the local LGBT community through an online and physical exhibit running all year round. See below to see this month’s featured community member and an interview with them or come into the Center today and peruse multiple images located on the 2nd floor, Market Street Overlook!

OCTOBER

What is your name?
Heklina

How long have you lived in San Francisco Bay Area?
Since September ‘91

What is the first time you noticed that Gayness existed?
When I had a crush on Capt. Kirk

What would you consider a guilty pleasure?
Fried food, bad T.V.

You're having a dinner party of 6, whom would you invite?
Neighbors in my building and friends

What would you consider a perfect meal?
Steak, potatoes, salad

What would be a perfect day off?
No email- no phone

Favorite book?
Anything Agatha Christie

Favorite movie?
Rocky Horror Picture Show

Favorite word?
fuck

Least favorite word?
retard

Favorite swear word?
fuck

What is your profession?
entertainer

If you could with a snap of a finger what would be another profession you would like to do?
Work with animals

Whom would you like to meet dead or alive?
Sharon Tate

SEPTEMBER

What is your name?
Jeff Ingram

How long have you lived in San Francisco Bay Area?
March 1975

What is the first time you noticed that Gayness existed?
I was 16 and noticed my mom’s effeminate co-worker

What would you consider a guilty pleasure?
Reality T.V.

You're having a dinner party of 6, whom would you invite?
Sandra Bernhard,my mother, my father, my best friend Winston, Robert DENiro, Kevin Aucoin

What would you consider a perfect meal?
Anything Italian

What would be a perfect day off?
Going to Redwood Regional Park, picnic,with the people I love and Gigi my dog

Favorite book?
The Baby

Favorite movie?
Girls will be Girls and Without you I’m Nothing

Favorite word?
puppies

Least favorite word?
The “N” word

Favorite swear word?
C*nt

What is your profession?
artist

If you could with a snap of a finger what would be another profession you would like to do?
Nothing else

Whom would you like to meet dead or alive?
Barack Obama

JULY


What is your name?
Laine Cathryn Ballard

How long have you lived in San Francisco Bay Area?
Since 2005

What is the first time you noticed that Gayness existed?
Around age 11

What would you consider a guilty pleasure?
All my pleasures are guilty. I have Oedipal issues. Talk to my analyst

Your having a dinner party of 6, whom would you invite?
Some combination of family and spouses

What would you consider a perfect meal?
My girlfriend says I like a plate of “slop” What would be a perfect day off? 4 hour massage, mud bath, hot springs, sitdown Mexican dinner, Margarita, chips, guac, and my love of course

Favorite book?
Two of my favorite authors are Eileen Myles and Alice Notley

Favorite movie?
Most recently I loved A Single Man

Favorite word?
The word logorrhea makes me chuckle

Least favorite word?
Today it is “favorite”

Favorite swear word?
Does ‘suck it” count?

What is your profession?
Poet, Tax Preparer, & Adjunct Instructor

If you could with a snap of a finger what would be another profession you would like to do?
So many…Magazine Editor, Journalist, Comaprative Lit Professor, Singer , Acupuncturist, Queer Theorist

Whom would you like to meet dead or alive?
Gertrude Stein

JUNE

What is your name?
William Bedell

How long have you lived in San Francisco Bay Area?
2 years

What is the first time you noticed that Gayness existed?
Watching a Gay Pride Parade on T.V.

What would you consider a guilty pleasure?
Eating pizza

You're having a dinner party of 6, whom would you invite?
I have close knit group of friends for over 20 years. I would invite them all

What would you consider a perfect meal?
Seared Ahi, rice, green beans and fresh berries for dessert

What would be a perfect day off?
Gym, healthy lunch, then Kabuki Hot springs

Favorite book?
Ask and it is given, by Esther Hicks

Favorite movie?
Inception

Favorite word?
love

Least favorite word?
hate

Favorite swear word?
fuck

What is your profession?
Massage therapist

If you could with a snap of a finger what would be another profession you would like to do?
An online trader

Whom would you like to meet dead or alive?
Joseph Pilates (the man who invented Pilates)

APRIL

What is your name?
Marga Gomez

How long have you lived in San Francisco Bay Area?
25 years

What is the first time you noticed that Gayness existed?
I saw lesbians on David Suskind's T.V. Show at 13

What would you consider a guilty pleasure?
Watching a fancy person fall down

You're having a dinner party of 6, whom would you invite?
Marlene Dietrich, La Lupe, Hilary Clinton, Oprah, Charles nelson Reilly, Chrissie Hynde

What would you consider a perfect meal?
Brick Oven Mushroom Pizza, organic green salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette, Veuve Cliquot

What would be a perfect day off?
3 orgasms (2 for me 1 for her), tennis and a movie

Favorite book?
Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros

Favorite movie?
Zoolander

Favorite word?
baby

Least favorite word?
no

Favorite swear word?
Palin

What is your profession?
Writer/Performer

If you could with a snap of a finger what would be another profession you would like to do?
A bra fitter to the stars

Whom would you like to meet dead or alive?
Raul Julia

MARCH

What is your name?
Lamott Atkins

How long have you lived in San Francisco Bay Area?
7 years

What is the first time you noticed that Gayness existed?
Seeing the Jackson 5, and falling for Michael

What would you consider a guilty pleasure?
Nothing that gives me pleasure makes me feel guilty

You're having a dinner party of 6, whom would you invite?
I have many friends to choose from

What would you consider a perfect meal?
Seared medium rare Nicoise Salad

What would be a perfect day off?
Going to the ocean with my dog and having lunch at the Cliff House

Favorite book?
The Power of Now- Eckhart Tolle

Favorite movie?
Winter, Spring , Summer, Fall

Favorite word?
lovely

Least favorite word?
The “N” word

Favorite swear word?
shit

What is your profession?
Yoga teacher

If you could with a snap of a finger what would be another profession you would like to do?
A professional singer

Whom would you like to meet dead or alive?
Michael Jackson

FEBRUARY

What is your name?
Cecilia Chung

How long have you lived in San Francisco Bay Area?
26 years

What is the first time you noticed that Gayness existed?
Since my mom made me wear matching outfits with my younger sister

What would you consider a guilty pleasure?
Having a fling with a guy half my age

You're having a dinner party of 6, whom would you invite?
One guest would be my deceased grandmother, the other guest would not meet with her approval

What would you consider a perfect meal?
Zero calorie verrrrry spicy food

What would be a perfect day off?
A quiet dinner and movie with one or two of my closest friends

Favorite book?
Condor Trilogy

Favorite movie?
Pan’s Labyrinth

Favorite word?
passion

Least favorite word?
jealousy

Favorite swear word?
fuck

What is your profession?
Policy Consultant

If you could with a snap of a finger what would be another profession you would like to do?
Owner of a Tea House

Whom would you like to meet dead or alive?
Mother Theresa

   
1800 Market Street - San Francisco, CA 94102 - (415) 865-5555
Directions and Hours   Contact Us    Room Rentals   Site Map   Contact Webmanager
© 2002-2011 San Francisco LGBT Community Center. All Rights Reserved