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Title: Efrain John Gonzalez papers
Dates: 1990-circa 2000
Collection Number: 2022-59
Creator/Collector:
Gonzalez, Efrain John
Extent: 1990-circa 2000
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Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Efrain John Gonzalez is a bisexual photographer, tour guide, and artist. This collection consists of photographs from queer
cultural centers, fliers for the Hellfire Tours, an artist’s notebook, and a flash drive including photographs of various
San Francisco Bisexual Conferences.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material has not been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission
to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist. Permission for reproductions
and/or permission to publish or quote from material is given on behalf of the GLBT Historical Society as the owner of the
physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by
the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Efrain John Gonzalez papers. Collection Number: 2022-59. GLBT Historical Society
The collection was donated to the GLBT Historical Society by Efrain John Gonzalez in August, 2022.
Biography/Administrative History
Efrain John Gonzalez is a bisexual photographer, tour guide, and artist. He gives tours of the historic locations of popular
kink and fetish clubs in Manhattan through a company named the Hellfire Tours, predominantly in the “Meat-Packing District”,
below the old subway rail known as the “High Line”. Gonzalez formerly took photographs of people and places in the Meat-Packing
District when it was a thriving community, and published his work on the Hellfire Tours’ website to advertise. It is apparent
Gonzalez was also very involved in the bisexual activist community, as he documented the happenings at the San Francisco Bisexual
Conference throughout the 90s. Seemingly, he was also very involved in the queer community at large; his photography also
captures prominent figures of San Francisco Pride parades, and queer joy between friends and partners.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of photographs from queer cultural centers, fliers for the Hellfire Tours, an artist’s notebook,
and a flash drive including photographs of various San Francisco Bisexual Conferences. The array of physical photographs in
the collection are black and white, showing scenes from San Francisco Pride parades in the 90s. The fliers advertise the Hellfire
Tours, list Gonzalez’s contact information, and include regulars of the kink and fetish clubs in the Meat-Packing District.
This collection also includes a notebook, which is blank, aside from the colorful cover that is duplicated. Finally, the flash
drive is a digital documentation of roughly one hundred photographs of scenes at the San Francisco Bisexual Conferences, San
Francisco pride parades, along with digital copies of diary entries.
Bisexual people
LGBTQ
Photography
Kink
Latinx people