Welcome to Hospitality House
Hospitality House was founded in 1967, when the Tenderloin was experiencing an influx of LGBT youth flocking to one of America’s first epicenters for the burgeoning queer liberation movement: San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Despite the positive legacy created by this movement, more than 3,000 of these youth found themselves living on the streets. Most of them survived by participating in the vice traffic in the low-income Tenderloin district. Concerned residents in the Tenderloin partnered with this struggling population to form Hospitality House, initially a simple drop-in space offering food and activities to help homeless youth take an intermission from another night on the street. By 1985, Hospitality House had developed into the multiple-program agency it is today. The agency has shifted its demographic focus to meet changing needs of the community, transitioning from youth in the Tenderloin to now serving predominantly adult residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Sixth Street Corridor, and Mid-Market neighborhoods struggling with homelessness, poverty, and the range of other socioeconomic issues facing residents here.
Hospitality House Happenings
AN EPIC NIGHT!
We'd like to express our love and gratitude to everyone who attending THHE AUCTION on May 9, 2019. The event was truly a spectacular evening with over 600 celebrants in attendance. With your generosity and participation we raised approximately $160,000 for Hospitality House as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of our Community Arts Program. Special thanks to our volunteers, THHE AUCTION Planning Committee, THHE TEAM, and of course, YOU, for your support in making this a memorable event. Photos coming soon! |
FEARLESS COLOR: featuring artwork
by Angela Summers & Laurie Blessen The latest exhibition at Hospitality House's Community Arts Program gallery features the work of two of Community Arts Programs most fierce and bold artists. Laurie unashamedly mixes color palettes while Angela morphs bright female forms with insect creatures so vibrant you can almost hear them buzz. The viewer's eye will be transported through the whole rainbow and spinning out the other side. The exhibition opens on Friday, April 19th and runs through May. |
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