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Los Angeles Public Library and Langston Hughes Poster Complaint Collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Coll2011-064
Abstract
Petition, memoranda, press releases, interdepartmental correspondence, articles, organizational statements, reports, and other material documenting controversy over "issues of equity, censorship, and discrimination" with regard to gay and lesbian patrons and employees by the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), circa 1989-1994. According to a complaint filed in 1994 by library employees, in 1991 the City Librarian of the LAPL "censored and ordered destroyed Lesbian and Gay History Month...
Dates:
1989-1994; Majority of material found within 1991 - 1994