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Avatar Club Los Angeles records
Collection
Identifier: Coll2021-004
Abstract
Avatar Club Los Angeles is a members-only club for gay men dedicated to "providing information and education about safe, sane, and consensual bondage, discipline, kinky and sadomasochistic (BDSM) sex between adults." Founded in 1983, Avatar is the oldest gay leather club in Los Angeles and holds regular meetings, educational demonstrations, and public programming. The collection contains documents, educational materials, correspondence, membership records, photographs, videos, computer...
Dates:
1972-2013
Pat Rocco photographs and papers
Collection
Identifier: Coll2007-006
Abstract
Photographs, scripts, programs, and related records documenting Pat Rocco's careers in radio, television, and theater; erotic photography; journalism; provider of emergency shelter for the homeless. Rocco was known for his charity, organizational, and collaborative work on behalf of gay and lesbian community in Southern California, primarily Los Angeles, and later in Hawaii. The bulk of the collection documents Rocco's life from 1970 through 1990.
Dates:
circa 1900-2014; Majority of material found within 1970-2000