Gay Freedom Day Committee (San Francisco) Records
Scope and Content
Press releases, bylaws, flyers, event permit documents, parade participant lists, financial records, contractual agreements, clippings, correspondence, legal documents, event schedules, police ordinances, and other material documenting the activities of the Gay Freedom Day Committee in San Francisco, 1973-1991. The committee was responsible for publicity, logistics, permitting, and financing of San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day Parade and Fair, held annually at the end of Gay Pride Week in late June. The bulk of the collection documents permitting and financing of the 1977 and 1978 Gay Freedom Day events.
Dates
- Creation: 1973-1991
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1977 - 1979
Creator
- Gay Freedom Day Committee (Creator, Organization)
Access
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Publication Rights
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Historical Note
The Gay Freedom Day Parade and Fair was the name of San Francisco's annual gay pride parade (by the early 1980s the event was referred to as Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day). In 1977 parade and festival attendance burgeoned in response to national anti-LGBT initiatives supported by Anita Bryant and others.
Extent
1.6 Linear Feet ([1 archive box + 1 archive carton.])
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Press releases, bylaws, flyers, event permit documents, parade participant lists, financial records, contractual agreements, clippings, correspondence, legal documents, event schedules, police ordinances, and other material documenting the activities of the Gay Freedom Day Committee in San Francisco, 1973-1991, the organization responsible for San Francisco's annual Gay Freedom Day Parade and Fair.
Processing Information
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In order to provide access to this collection, minimal processing on this collection was expedited in 2011. Date spans were given wherever possible, but do not reflect the most accurate inclusive dates.
- Title
- Gay Freedom Day Committee (San Francisco) Records, 1973-1991
- Status
- Publish Basic
- Author
- Marc LaRocque
- Date
- (c) 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is inEnglish.
Repository Details
Part of the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California Repository
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Los Angeles California 90007 United States
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