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Rainbow Roots: Happy Foundation Archives: Preserving San Antonio’s LGBTQ Past

Rainbow Roots: Happy Foundation Archives: Preserving San Antonio’s LGBTQ Past

Melissa Gohlke, a scholar of San Antonio’s LGBTQIA+ history, will provide a virtual
presentation about Arthur “Happy” Veltman and the Happy Foundation archives. Happy
was a local business entrepreneur who was instrumental in the commercial development of the River Walk, Blue Star Arts Complex and more and his foundation houses mountains of papers chronicling local and national LGBTQ+ history.

You can enjoy this virtual presentation from the comfort of the Library. To receive a Zoom
link to watch at home, please sign up at bit.ly/HappyFoundation.

Thousand Oaks Library
Free
05:30 PM - 06:30 PM on Tue, 23 Sep 2025
Thousand Oaks Library
4618 Thousand Oaks Dr.
San Antonio, Texas 78233
210-207-9190
brooke.mjolsness@sanantonio.gov