Desert Empire Business and Professional Association records
Scope and Content
Bylaws, correspondence, fliers, and membership lists of the Desert Empire Business and Professional Association (DE BAPA), 1983-1984. The bulk of the records of the association concern the split in the organization in mid-1984. While DE BAPA retained the name, some members left to form the Palm Springs Business and Professional Association.
Dates
- Creation: 1983-1984
Creator
- Desert Empire Business And Professional Association (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Administrative History
The principal purpose of the Desert Empire Business and Professional Association was "to support, assist, inform, and educate business and professional individuals supportive of its concerns and community they serve." The principle communities were lesbian women, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender professionals and business owners.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Bylaws, correspondence, fliers, and membership lists, 1983-1984, of the Desert Empire Business and Professional Association (DE BAPA). The bulk of the records concern the split in the organization in mid-1984. While DE BAPA retained the name, some members left to form the Palm Springs Business and Professional Association. Both organizations served lesbian women, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender professionals and business owners.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Desert Empire Business and Professional Association Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Michael C. Oliveira
- Date
- (c) 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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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