SF State students march in the SF Pride parade. Courtesy of SF State University, 2024.

     For readers affiliated with SF State, we encourage you to broaden the scope of this study by addressing earlier and later years, searching for other sources, conducting oral histories, diversifying the stories told, and developing more in-depth analyses of the primary sources.

     For researchers at other colleges and universities, we hope this project offers some ideas, models, and tips for exploring LGBTQ histories at your institutions.

     For other scholars of LGBTQ history, we think this exhibit casts new light on LGBTQ arts, culture, education, gender, media, movements, politics, sex, and studies in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Historians of education, students, and youth also might find this exhibit useful.

    Finally, we believe that “Queer Transformations at SF State, 1969-74” reminds us of the problems and possibilities of transformation, in the past, present, and future.