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Jehan Agrama collection on the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Los Angeles (GLAAD/LA)
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2008-049
Abstract
Correspondence, agendas, notes, minutes, programs, reports, and materials collected by Jehan Agrama in her role as Co-President and as member of the Board of Directors of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Los Angeles (GLAAD/LA), 1989-1994. The collection includes documents related to the formation of GLAAD/USA, GLAAD Media Awards programs, 1994-2000; and documents outreach to the Los Angeles Unified School District and Rebuild Los Angeles (RLA) Racial Harmony and Discourse...
Dates:
1989-2001; Majority of material found within 1991 - 1993
American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California Lesbian and Gay Rights Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: Coll2007-013
Abstract
This collection comprises minutes, meeting agendas, financial records, correspondence, memoranda, reports, press releases, newsletters, publications, legal papers, subject files, notes, photographs, ephemera, and a videocassette relating to the on-going activities of the Lesbian & Gay Rights Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU-LGRC), in Los Angeles. The LGRC is the first ACLU chapter in the United States to address the civil rights of gay...
Dates:
1970 - 2004
B.W. Grant Barnes papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-036
Abstract
Reports and administrative files from the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), subject and research files, and personal papers (bulk, 1970-2000) from Attorney B.W. Grant Barnes. The collection includes extensive subject files pertaining to Barnes' research in international human rights laws; records documenting his work in the Individual Rights Section of the LACBA; and his personal writings, correspondence and other material documenting his involvement in numerous gay and lesbian...
Dates:
1913 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000
California Human Rights Advocates records
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-035
Abstract
California State Legislature bills and resolutions, politician biographies, board of directors meeting minutes and agendas, press releases, bylaws, articles of incorporation, budget records, correspondence, job descriptions, contracts, fundraising records, reports, petitions, lobbying and mailing lists, position statements, clippings, lobby and staff reports, court records, brochures, newsletters, flyers, mock-ups of promotional material, and research records of the California Human Rights...
Dates:
1973-1981; Majority of material found within 1977 - 1981
California Proposition 6 Briggs Initiative collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2011-018
Abstract
Correspondence, clippings, legislative and legal documents, pamphlets, flyers, photographs, financial records, meeting minutes, event posters, petition forms, memoranda, speakers' manuals, volunteer forms, and other material documenting the campaign to defeat California Proposition 6, introduced by State Senator John Briggs in 1978. The initiative's intent was to require the dismissal of public school teachers and schoolworkers who "engaged in advocating, soliciting, imposing, encouraging or...
Dates:
1977-1980
Jon W. Davidson Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-022
Abstract
Correspondence, notes, intake logs, flyers and other material, 1985-1995, of Jon W. Davidson, former senior staff counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California. As former head of the Lesbian and Gay Rights Project of the ACLU of Southern California, Davidson was instrumental in numerous ACLU legal actions on behalf of gay and lesbian civil rights. The bulk of the material consists of requests for assistance submitted to the ACLU chapter in the early 1990s.
Dates:
1985 - 1995
Gay Rights National Lobby Records
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2011-053
Abstract
Press releases, notes, memoranda, member and legislator lists, policy statements, administrative records, financial documents, annual reports, correspondence, articles, and clippings documenting activities of the Gay Rights National Lobby, 1976-1985. Conceived of in Chicago in 1975, the Gay Rights National Lobby (GRNL) was "registered in Washington, D.C., as a civil rights lobby dedicated to obtaining federal legislation which will guarantee equal protection under the law to all men and...
Dates:
1976-1985
Irvin Howard collection on Riverside Coalition Against Discrimination
Collection
Identifier: Coll2013-010
Abstract
Legal documents, correspondence, clippings, photographs, audio and videocassettes and other material, 1977-1994, collected by Irvin Howard. In particular, the collection includes campaign materials from the Riverside Coalition Against Discrimination, a political action group formed to oppose a proposed 1991 ballot measure that would repeal the city's AIDS anti-discrimination ordinance.
Dates:
1977 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1989 - 1993
Lisa Kaye papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-083
Abstract
Meeting minutes, administrative records, training workshop materials, political campaign records, publicity material and other papers, 1975-1996, from lesbian activist and community organizer Lisa Kaye from Orange County, California. Materials in the collection document Kaye's political and activist career with the Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club of Orange County, a gay and lesbian community organization; Elections Committee of the County of Orange, a bi-partisan political action...
Dates:
1975 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1995
Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association of Los Angeles records
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2012-183
Abstract
Materials relating to the activities of the Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association of Los Angeles from 1989 to 2011, with the bulk of materials pertaining to the 1990s. The materials include board meeting minutes, correspondence, news clippings, publicity, information regarding organizational events (primarily programs, flyers, invitations, and event budgets), and legal briefs. The Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association, formerly known as Lawyers for Human Rights, was founded in 1979 and went on...
Dates:
1989 - 2011