Colorful & Unconventional: A Visual History of San Francisco’s Queer Art Scene

The San Francisco Art Institute (1871-2022) has a heretofore hidden long and colorful history. Renowned as the oldest art school west of the Mississippi during its through its 150-year existence, it hosted a panoply of queer faculty, students and staff.

Among the figures highlighted: faculty such as Jerry Burchard and James Broughton; alumni such as Bernice Bing, Catherine Opie, Win Ng, Annie Leibowitz and Jess; and cultural fellow travelers including the Cockettes, David Cannon Dashiell and Martin Wong.