Karen Peper video recordings
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Scope and Contents
This collection comprises video recordings (1979-2005) from filmmaker and attorney, Karen Peper, documenting a variety of LGBT-related events from the 1980s to the early 2000s, particularly LGBT community activities in Michigan. The collection includes footage from the Marches on Washington for LGBT rights, Gay Games events, the national tour of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, lesbian weddings, protest demonstrations, pride parades, and other events. Notably, the materials highlight the history of LGBT communities in Michigan, in places such as Detroit, Lansing, Ferndale, Belleville, Royal Oak, and Huron Township, among others. Topics documented in this collection include the groundbreaking for the Affirmations LGBT community center, lesbian weddings, women's music concerts, Metropolitan Community Church activities, the 1992 murder of lesbian couple Susan Pittmann and Christine Puckett, and 1991 demonstrations protesting discriminatory practices at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Belleville, MI.
Dates
- Creation: 1979-2005
Creator
- Peper, Karen (Person)
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.
Extent
14.5 Linear Feet (11 boxes.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Video recordings (1979-2005) from filmmaker and attorney, Karen Peper, documenting a variety of LGBT-related events from the 1980s to the early 2000s, particularly LGBT community activities in Michigan. The collection includes footage from the Marches on Washington for LGBT rights, Gay Games events, the national tour of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, lesbian weddings, protest demonstrations, pride parades, and other events.
Arrangement
Collection is arranged alphabetically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Karen Peper, July 2018.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Loni Shibuyama, 2021.
Subject
- Gerrity, Sue (Person)
- Pittmann, Susan (Person)
- Puckett, Christine (Person)
Topical
- Civil rights demonstrations
- Gay Games
- Gay athletes
- Gay pride parades
- Hate crimes -- Michigan
- LGBT community centers -- Michigan
- Lesbian activists -- Michigan
- Lesbian athletes
- National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (2nd : 1987 : Washington, D.C.)
- Same-sex marriage
Uniform Title
- Title
- Finding aid to the Karen Peper video recordings, 1979-2005
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Loni Shibuyama
- Date
- © 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English.
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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