By: Gerard Koskovich

As one of the curators for "Our Vast Queer Past," I'd like to thank you for the encouraging words about the new GLBT History Museum in San Francisco. As Barbara points out, it counts as the first in the U.S., but not the first anywhere. The Schwules Museum in Berlin is one of our distinguished forerunners ... and we even look back to an earlier antecedent in the museum at Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin (1919-1933). Autostraddle folks who'd like to see some photos of The GLBT History Museum will find an album at http://tinyurl.com/GLBTMuseum. (It's posted on Facebook, but is accessible even to folks without a Facebook account.)