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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
Donald A. Ferguson papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2014-014
Abstract
Board of directors materials, bylaws, administrative committee records, correspondence, conference material, financial records, event and program records, newsletter copy, and publicity material, 1979-1994, from gay activist Donald A. Ferguson, who served on the boards for the Triangle Gay and Lesbian Foster Parent Association (also known as Triangle Project) and the Whitman-Brooks Foundation.
Dates:
1974 - 1994
Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2008-069
Abstract
News clippings, journal articles, pamphlets, flyers, printed materials from activist organizations, photographs, a videocassette and a DVD relating to pioneering lesbian activists Barbara Gittings and her partner of 46 years, Kay Tobin Lahusen. Active from the 1960s, Gittings marched in the first gay rights demonstrations at the White House, Pentagon and Independence Hall; she worked with Frank Kameny to persuade the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its list of...
Dates:
1962-2007
Janus Society records
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2008-027
Abstract
Meeting minutes, bylaws and constitution, correspondence, notes, printed ephemera and other records from the Janus Society of America (also known as Janus Society of Delaware Valley), a Philadelphia-based homophile organization founded in 1962. The Janus Society was an influential group of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals, which was considered more politically aggressive than other homophile groups of that era. The Janus Society was active in the years 1962 to 1969, and its regular activities...
Dates:
1961-1969
Lesbian Legacy Collection subject files
Collection
Identifier: Coll2009-004
Abstract
Clippings, catalogs, organizational records, flyers, pamphlets, correspondence, manuscripts, press material, posters and other printed material make up the Lesbian Legacy Collection Subject Files, begun in 1996 by lesbian feminist activist and librarian, Yolanda Retter, at the ONE Institute / International Gay & Lesbian Archives (now the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives.) The collection consists of over a thousand files related to lesbian history and the women's rights movement,...
Dates:
circa 1960-2008
Los Angeles Committee to Free Sharon Kowalski records
Collection
Identifier: Coll2014-048
Abstract
Correspondence, newsletters, clippings, press releases, fliers, court records, notes, typescripts and other material from the Los Angeles Committee to Free Sharon Kowalski, 1984-1991. In 1983, Sharon Kowalski suffered severe brain injuries in a car accident, which left her physically disabled. Kowalski's father, Donald, was initially named Sharon's guardian and cut off visitation from Sharon's longtime partner, Karen Thompson. The materials document the campaign by lesbian activists to raise...
Dates:
1984 - 1991
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll2011-056
Abstract
Press releases, promotional letters, clippings, flyers, organization lists, articles, financial statements, conference programs, informational pamphlets, lobbying packets, fact sheets, publication lists, photographs, meeting minutes, legislative surveys, directories, policy papers, and questionnaires from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), 1973-2005. Founded in 1973, the goal of the NGLTF was to build and coordinate organizational support for pro-GLBT legislation and...
Dates:
1973-2005; Majority of material found within 1974 - 1989
National Gay Rights Advocates Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll2011-057
Abstract
Clippings, press releases, correspondence, donor records, newsletters, informational pamphlets, financial records, annual reports, and study reports documenting activities of the National Gay Rights Advocates (NGRA), 1985-1990. The NGRA was a public interest law firm "created [in 1978] to expand and defend gay rights" by taking cases that had potential to break new legal ground.
Dates:
1985-1990; Majority of material found within 1987 - 1989
People's College of Law of the National Lawyers Guild collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Coll2011-082
Abstract
Press releases, correspondence, proposal, flyers, notes, clippings, pamphlets, resolutions, admission packet, and other items documenting activity of the People's College of Law of the National Lawyers Guild (PCL), 1973-1980. The PCL was an unaccredited law school intended to train legal professionals to defend the rights of "the poor and oppressed." The PCL included a gay caucus, which focused on gay and lesbian rights projects.
Dates:
1973-1980; Majority of material found within 1974 - 1976
Pride Foundation records
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2011-071
Abstract
Articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, correspondence, reports, legal referral documents, contractual agreements, resolutions, clippings, flyers, publicity material, legal papers, financial records, photographs, telephone and visitor logs, municipal agency documents, real estate records, position statements and other material, 1966-1984, documenting the activities of the Pride Foundation, founded in San Francisco in 1973. Pride Foundation was a community organization that provided...
Dates:
1966 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1983