Roland Palencia Colection
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Scope and Contents
The collection contains records from organizations Palencia has been a part of, particularly GLLU and VIVA, as well as interviews, newspaper clippings, slides, and ephemera.
Dates
- Creation: 1969-2017
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Biographical / Historical
Roland Palencia is an LGBTQ activist, pioneer, and founded a number of Queer Latin organizations in the 1980s, including Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos and VIVA!, an arts organization.
Palencia was born in Guatemala in 1957. In the mid-1970s, he immigrated to the United States with his mother and siblings, fleeing the civil was and economic instability. He attended Los Angeles High School and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he earned a bachelor’s degree in History.
Palencia has engaged in community and healthcare activism that
includes community leadership, HIV/AIDS activism, coalition building, and film production. In the 1980s, Palencia helped established Gay Latino Unidos (later Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos) and played a major role in creating many community-based organizations in Los Angeles which focused around both Latine and LGBTQ+ issues.
Currently, he is the Community Benefits Director and a leadership trainer at L.A. Care Health Plan, the largest public health plan in the nation.
Palencia is a board member for the ONE Archives Foundation and received the 2021 Chancellor Emeritus Service Award from the Pacific Graduate Institute Alumni Association.
References:
"From Middle Class Guatemalan to U.S. Gay Latino Activist: Roland Palencia and Queer Oral History" https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/n009w517k?locale=fr
Roland Palencia, ONE Archives Foundation https://www.onearchives.org/team/roland-palencia/
Extent
1 Linear Feet (2 boxes.)
Language of Materials
English
Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
Roland Palencia is an LGBTQ activist, pioneer, and founded a number of Queer Latin organizations in the 1980s, including Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU) and VIVA!, an arts organization. His collection contains records from organizations he has been a part of, particularly GLLU and VIVA, as well as interviews, newspaper clippings, and slides.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Roland Palencia, August 2018.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Beth McDonald, 2022.
- Title
- Finding aid to the Roland Palencia Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Beth McDonald
- Date
- © 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California Repository
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles California 90007 United States
(213) 821-2771
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