"Out long enough to be historic"
UTSA archivist Melissa Gohlke has unearthed historical evidence of a downtown drag scene dating to the start of the last century. Credit: Courtesy of UTSA For many, the opening of San Antonio. Materials and services are available to UTSA faculty, staff, students, and alumni, as well as to the local, national and international community. Each archival collection listed is linked to a descriptive inventory of the materials in the collection known as collection guides or finding aids. A brief history of SA’s queer media
The Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio's mission is to participate in political activities that create a strong and effective voice for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities in local and state policy decisions. Mixon revisits gay bars, community formation, racial dynamics, policing practices, cultural representations, and military suasion to highlight the ongoing need for further exploration and study of historic gay spaces across Texas. I remembered back to my coming-out days in San Antonio, Texas, in the early s and realized that I had lived long enough and been out long enough to be historic. 
Getting Started
Elder wants to ensure that researchers and anyone interested in San Antonio's gay, lesbian, and trans past have access to materials that record this facet of the city's history and culture. Sources "The Happy Foundation's quest to save a bit of LGBT history," in Q San Antonio, May 17, , [accessed July, 18, ]. It was for many, the first opportunity to get out of rural towns. Get out, see the world, meet other people and often, for the first time, meet other homosexuals.
UTSA archivist works to preserve San Antonio LGBTQ+ history
SAN ANTONIO — The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) library annex houses too many stories for Melissa Gohlke to count. Each story, though, tells an important piece of San Antonio's past. San Antonio has had many queer publications over the decades, some lasting only a few months, others having remarkably long runs. This issue of Together Gay , a publication of the San Antonio Gay Community Center, provides an interesting example of how some queer San Antonians creatively responded to the challenges they faced. 
UTSA Digital Collections
Combining materials from the Carolyn Weathers Collection in the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives and a interview with Weathers herself, Amanda Mixon sketches queer experience in early s San Antonio, Texas. Mixon revisits gay bars, community formation, racial dynamics, policing practices, cultural representations, and military suasion to highlight the ongoing need for further. .
Hidden from History
Currently living on the east coast, but I’ve lived all over and have seen the wide range of accepting and non-accepting places. I’ve never been to San Antonio. Just curious to hear what the community is like there, from any LGBTQ San Antonions (?) Are there many bars? Is there a big community? Do you ever feel unsafe? Is the culture anything like what I hear in Dallas where everyone’s. . 
Archival Collections
The Calendar, produced by the San Antonio Gay Alliance (SAGA) between and , started off as a diminutive biweekly serial that fit easily into a pants pocket. Those seeking out San Antonio’s queer social scene need only flip to the Calendar ’s “Community Directory” to point them in the direction of the city’s thriving nightlife. .
A Guide to the Happy Foundation Archives Collection, 1955
San Antonio Lesbian Gay Assembly (SALGA) SALGA, , was organized to bring together lesbian and gay organizations, businesses, and individuals to network, share information, educate the community, and to eliminate discrimination and prejudice against and defend the human and civil rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. .