AIDS (Disease) -- California -- Los Angeles County
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
ACT UP / Los Angeles records
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2011-010
Abstract
The collection consists of the administrative records, documentation of actions, and resource materials of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power/Los Angeles (ACT UP/LA).The records include minutes, financial records, photographs, press releases, membership materials, newsletters, clippings, fliers, and subject files. Active from 1987 to 1995, ACT UP defined itself as "a grass-roots, democratic, militant, direct action organization dedicated to creating positive changes around AIDS in federal...
Dates:
1987-1997
Californians for AIDS Research and Education (CARE) records
Collection
Identifier: Coll2014-104
Abstract
Agendas, minutes, reports, fliers, forms, and planning materials from Californians for AIDS Research and Education (CARE), and documentation from the AIDS Initiative Committee (AIC) and the No on Prop 96 and 102 campaigns in Los Angeles, California, 1987-1990. After the victory over California Proposition 64 in 1986, community members formed CARE to educate the public and defeat Proposition 69. AIC sought to place a proposition on the June 1988 ballot to create an AIDS research fund, but it...
Dates:
1987-1990
Bryan Mershon papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2013-093
Abstract
Meeting minutes and agendas, conference materials and notes, student papers and dissertation, correspondence, policy statements, audits, office forms, grant applications, employee reports, research articles and reports, directories, pamphlets, fliers, and clippings documenting Bryan Merson's work and studies in AIDS/HIV and mental health from 1983-2000. The records primarily document his work for the AIDS Regional Board of Los Angeles County's Mental Health Task Force from 1991-1994, Los...
Dates:
1948-2000
Bruce Mirken papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2013-094
Abstract
Minutes, contract agreements, corporate and government reports, correspondence, financial records, clippings, publicity material and other administrative records, 1987-1993, from writer and activist Bruce Mirken. Mirken worked for over 20 years in communications and activism in social justice, drug policy reform, LGBT- and AIDS-related issues, and materials in the collection document his participation in AIDS- and LGBT-related organizations, government agencies and committees.
Dates:
1987-1993