National Queer Arts Festival ( NQAF ) is an annual queer festival in San Francisco organized by the Queer Cultural Center and established in 1998 to coincide with Pride Month .
3-749: Other organisations which have assisted over the years include the Harvey Milk Institute , Mission Cultural Center for Latino Art and the Center for African and African American Art & Culture . Jonathan David Katz is the founding artist director of the festival. Since 1998, NQAF has presented more than 800 different events that have featured more than 2,300 LGBTQ+ artists including Bill T. Jones , Alice Walker , Robert Rauschenberg , Meredith Monk , Adrienne Rich , Marga Gomez , Justin Chin , Thom Gunn, Cherríe Moraga and Dorothy Allison . NQAF
6-555: Is the largest queer arts festival in North America. This article about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ)-related festival or event is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Harvey Milk Institute Harvey Milk Institute , located in San Francisco , California , was the largest queer studies institute in the world, and was founded by Jonathan David Katz in 1995. It
9-614: Was named in honor of Harvey Milk , an American politician and gay rights activist. The Institute strived to create an educational home for the San Francisco Bay Area's gay and lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities, who felt that their needs and interests were ignored or marginalised by schools of higher education. Courses offered by the Institute included Queering Culture, Prostitution 101, Lesbian and Gay Parenting and Queer Consciousness. This article about
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