Abstract
This project and the digital exhibit that accompanies it examines queer disco culture in San Francisco during the period of approximately 1970 to 1995. It additionally explores the most effective ways to present this history to the public as a digital exhibit in collaboration with the PRIDE Center at California State University, Sacramento. The modern San Francisco queer community remembers its disco past through imagined memory and the use of monumentality, and as a case study, it displays the ways in which queer memory functions differently from mainstream society as a result of the AIDS crisis. Similarly, this project explores the effectiveness of free choice learning within digital spaces and the ways in which this appeals best to potential audiences such as other queer communities. This project illustrates both the importance of keeping memory alive within oppressed communities and in turn strives to continue to preserve and push these memories further into the future.