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No. 119, October 5, 1983

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 4
Identifier: Subsubseries 2.2.2.

Subsubseries Scope and Content Summary

From the Sub-Series:

In the early 1980s, both Nash and Lombardi worked for Update, a bi-weekly newspaper for the GLBT communities in San Diego and Los Angeles. Both appear for the first time in the masthead for the issue of April 4, 1980, Nash as Los Angeles City Editor, and Lombardi as a Los Angeles staff writer. Lombardi's name appears for the last time in the issue for August 21, 1981, although he continued to work on the "Calendar" column until 1982; Nash continued as Los Angeles City Editor through December 1983. This subsubseries consists of two sets of files: issue files and research files. The issue files, created by Nash, are arranged chronologically, and contain correspondence, news stories, news releases, clippings, postcards, flyers, and other materials used to provide information for each issue, in particular the "Calendar" column. Each piece is marked with the number of the issue in which the information it provided appears; items whose information is repeated in more than one issue may be found in the folder for any of these issues. The research files consist of a small number of files, most created by Nash and containing notes in his hand, relating to specific, usually long-running, issues covered by the Los Angeles desk of the newspaper, in particular, relations between the GLBT community and the Los Angeles City Police Department (including police harassment of gays in Griffith Park), and the controversy over the 1981 order by California Governor Edmund G. Brown's staff prohibiting the showing of public service announcements produced by Jerry Wheeler Productions promoting mental health for homosexuals. The bulk of the contents of the Investigative file also concerns this controversy. The subsubseries also contains files on gay activist Don Amador's run for the Los Angeles City Council, the 1981 and 1982 Christopher Street West parade and festival, photographs (many of Los Angeles City Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson) published in the newspaper, and the Gay Press Association.

Dates

  • Creation: October 5, 1983

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.

Extent

From the Sub-Series: 3 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California Repository

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