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Luther E. (Luella) Bloom papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2014-084
Abstract
Photographs, greeting cards, and records documenting the life of Luther E. "Luella" Bloom, circa 1931-1988. The bulk of the materials date from circa 1975 to 1987. Bloom was a unionized waiter in Los Angeles from 1972-1981. He also had a drag persona, "Luella."
Dates:
circa 1931-1988
Colin Booth photographs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2012-038
Abstract
Photographs of Colin Booth in and out of drag, undated.
Dates:
undated
Canalli (John) photographs and video recordings
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2009-007
Abstract
Photographs, video recordings, and personal papers, circa 1978-2010, from gay independent filmmaker John Canalli. The bulk of the photographs documents Canalli and his friends attending drag queen events in San Francisco. The video recordings include DVDs and videocassettes of Canalli's film productions, including Wigstock documentaries and outtakes, the documentary Heroism : A Community Responds, programs from the Gay Cable Network, and excerpts from...
Dates:
circa 1978-2010; Majority of material found within 1985 - 1992
Ken Dickmann papers and photographs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-063
Abstract
Personal papers, writings, theater production records, publicity material, correspondence, photographs, negatives, slides, and other material, circa 1920-1995, from Ken Dickmann. Materials document Dickmann's life as an Air Force veteran, writer, performer, director, publicist, and gay activist in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. The collection includes his published and unpublished articles related to theater and film criticism and issues in the gay community; material from his work...
Dates:
circa 1920-1995; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1995
Gangway Suzie collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2014-047
Abstract
Correspondence, award certificates, flyers, publicity photographs, and other material, 1976-1982, from Gangway Suzie, a bartender and camp drag performer at The Gangway bar in San Francisco, California. A local celebrity in the San Francisco drag queen community, Gangway Suzie, whose real name is Alfred Slezewski, was killed in 1982.
Dates:
1976-1982
Imperial Courts collection
Collection
Identifier: Coll2012-130
Abstract
Photographs, flyers, organizational correspondence, court lists, polling sheets, clippings, notes, manuscripts, ephemera, and other material documenting activities of Imperial Courts, primarily in Southern California and San Francisco, 1959-2009. The Imperial Courts originated in San Francisco in 1965 as gay community social and fundraising events with a camp Imperial theme; the annual main event featured the coronation of elected monarchs (a king and queen) who in turn selected a royal...
Dates:
1959-2009
Ralph W. Judd collection on Cross-Dressing in the Performing Arts
Collection
Identifier: Coll2007-020
Abstract
Materials collected by Ralph Judd relating to the history of cross-dressing in the performing arts. The collection is focused on popular music and vaudeville from the 1890s through the 1930s, and on film and television: it contains few materials on musical theater, non-musical theater, ballet, opera, or contemporary popular music. The materials consist primarily of sheet music, 1848-1988 (bulk circa 1895-1940), and studio publicity stills of motion pictures, 1900-1996, and of television...
Dates:
1848-circa 2000
Bud McGinnis photographs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2012-081
Abstract
Bud McGinnis photographs consist primarily of the Gay Girls Riding Club (GGRC) contest, undated. Other photographs include undated images of the Hollywood First Baptist Church, two men on a Selma Avenue street corner, the winners of the Queen of the Universe pageant, and the 1976 Los Angeles Christopher Street West gay pride parade.
Dates:
1976, undated
Andrew M. Schwartz collection on cross-dressing
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2008-060
Abstract
Postcards, photographs, and other materials, the majority portraying cross-dressing in entertainment. The materials include a series of advertising cards, 1882-circa 1892, satirizing Oscar Wilde and "Aesthetics", a 1917 publicity still of Julian Eltinge in the film The Clever Mrs. Carfax, a 1919 program for his Vaudeville Review, a postcard autographed in 1919 by "Marina, transformiste", and an undated postcard of Émile Grandsart,...
Dates:
circa 1880-1919
Bill Wuzzy Spaulding papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-097
Abstract
Administrative records, correspondence, legislation campaign material, publicity material, fundraising records, personal papers and other material, 1981-2009, from Los Angeles gay activist Bill Wuzzy Spaulding. The bulk of the collection is organizational records from the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Committee of the California Community Foundation, Christopher Street West, Imperial Courts in Southern California, Lobby for Individual Freedom and Equality (LIFE AIDS Lobby), the campaign...
Dates:
1981 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1984 - 1996