Queer as German Folk
Exhibition
San Francisco

LGBTQIA-Zentrum James C. Hormel San Francisco

15th June to 26th September 2019

James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center

Eureka Valley Branch Library

Exhibition venues San Francisco

Playful, committed, and colorful like the queer movement itself: beginning at the end of May 2019, eight branches of the Goethe-Institut in North America and Schwules Museum Berlin present the exhibition Queer as German Folk. From more than 100 digitized exhibits from the Schwules Museum, the exhibition can be created “on demand” at any desired location and enriched with local components. Documents and archive materials become objects that form structured or anarchic installations and invite the public to interact. The exhibition’s fanzine will be published in four languages: German, English, French, and Spanish.

Local Advisor
Jim Van Buskirk

My interest in queer history began when I realized that much of the stories of our lives had -- throughout history -- been destroyed, mistranslated, or otherwise obfuscated.

Queer as German Folk
Impressions San Francisco

The James C. Hormel LGBTIQ+ Center on the third floor of the Main Library in San Francisco is a library, a meeting place, and a venue for exhibitions and events. This lively place of exchange and discussion about gender diversity is where the main part of the exhibition Queer as German Folk is on view.

Exhibition Team

The exhibition was curated by Birgit Bosold and Carina Klugbauer of the Schwules Museum Berlin. The exhibition design was developed by the Berlin agency chezweitz, who had previously designed the Homosexualität_en exhibition, a collaborative project of the German Historical Museum and the Schwules Museum Berlin.