SF Gay Men’s Chorus to open National LGBTQ Center for the Arts.

Rain falls in front of the Baha’i Temple on the night the SF Gay Men’s Chorus announces they have purchased the building. (Photo: Paul Kuroda, Special to The Chronicle)

A new National LGBTQ Center for the Arts will begin offering programming this fall in a $9.6 million, four-story, Art Deco building located in the heart of San Francisco.

Initially, the center at 170 Valencia St. will serve as the first permanent…