About Andrew

Andrew W. Shaffer is a San Francisco based historian of LGBTQ community and culture. His background includes graduate work at the University of San Francisco and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he helped to build that city’s first permanent LGBTQ archives.

He currently serves as the Development Director at Openhouse, an organization that provides housing, direct services and community program for LGBTQ+ older adults. He is the former Director of Development & Communications at the GLBT Historical Society, a museum and archive containing one of the largest collections of LGBTQ historic materials ever assembled.