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Gay rights -- California

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

James Boone and Joseph Bocuzzo Papers

 Collection — Box 1-3
Identifier: Coll2015-003
Abstract

Correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, city and state referendums and bills, surveys, clippings, notes, campaign donation records, and flyers documenting the gay rights activism of James Boone and Joseph Bocuzzo, 1977-1991. The collection primarily details the effort from 1985-1989 to implement and defend a City of Irvine human rights ordinance which prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Dates: 1977-1991
Found in: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Los Angeles records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll2012-031
Abstract

Founded in 1969, the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) was a loosely structured group of gay rights activists who were interested in the radical sexual liberation for all people. This collection consists of publicity material, photographs, correspondence, clippings, and writings that relate primarily to the Los Angeles group of the Gay Liberation Front.

Dates: 1969-1995
Found in: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Morris Kight papers and photographs

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2010-008
Abstract The collection, 1920-2003, consists of photographs, correspondence, clippings, annotated materials, and organizational materials primarily documenting Morris Kight's role as a gay activist in Los Angeles. He was born November 19, 1919 in Procter, Comanche County, Texas, married in 1950 in New Mexico, left his wife in 1955, and relocated to Los Angeles in 1958. Kight dedicated his life to a number of progressive causes including improving race relations, the anti-war movement, and the gay...
Dates: circa 1920-2003; Majority of material found within 1980 - 2000
Found in: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California

W. Dorr Legg personal papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2010-004
Abstract Correspondence and photographs, along with business, financial, and organizational records, chronicling the life of W. Dorr Legg before and beyond his involvement with ONE, Incorporated. Photographs document his early life along with minimal records of his educational experience at the University of Michigan, his professional life as a landscape designer and professor, and as a Church of Christ, Scientist practitioner, 1909-1994. His family papers include documents from his siblings along...
Dates: circa 1850-1995
Found in: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Stephen Stewart photographs

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2010-006
Abstract

Photographs and the resulting published work documenting icons, iconic places, and events of the United States lesbian and gay movement, 1982-1984. The collection primarily consists of Stephen Stewart's published and unpublished black and white photographs from his work, Positive Image: A Portrait of Gay America, along with other Stewart photographs.

Dates: 1982-1984
Found in: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California
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