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Gays in higher education

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Leroy Aarons Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll2011-014
Abstract Leroy Aarons was a journalist, author, playwright, and educator. He was known for his founding of the National Lesbian and Gay Jounalists Association (NLGJA), his work at the Washington Post and Oakland Tribune newspapers, his book "Prayers for Bobby", and his teaching career at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. The collection contains documents and records documenting Aarons' tenure as director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism's Project for the Study of Sexual Orientation...
Dates: 1890-2006

Paul C. Ballard papers

 Collection — Item Acc0000.005*
Identifier: Coll2014-029
Abstract

Minutes, correspondence, bylaws, proposals, reports, financial records, publicity material, clippings, photographs, microcassettes, and other material documenting the activities and history of the gay and lesbian student organization at the University of Southern California, 1971-1993, from former president and alumni advisor Paul C. Ballard.

Dates: 1971-1993, 2017

Doug Elliott papers

 Collection — Box 1: Series Series 1; Series Series 2
Identifier: Coll2013-111
Abstract

USC Lambda Alumni Association records, vacation scrapbooks, gay theater show fliers, photographs and other documents from University of Southern California alum and educator Doug Elliott (1924-2008). The collection contains fliers and programs for the Highways Performance Space, Celebration Theatre, the Gay Games and other gay organizations. Photographs document Elliott's various trips abroad and in the United States.

Dates: 1987 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1991 - 1998

Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Stanford University records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2014-069
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, a constitution, resolutions, event publicity material, and project proposals, 1973-1984, from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GLA) at Stanford University. Founded in 1972 as the Gay People's Union, the GLA formed to advocate and provide support for gay and lesbian students, faculty, and staff at the Stanford campus.

Dates: 1973-1984

Joseph J. Hayes papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2014-071
Abstract

Manuscript drafts, correspondence, clippings, administrative records, and a gay studies course proposal, 1972-1979, from Joseph J. Hayes. In the 1970s, Hayes was an Associate Professor of English at California State University, Fullerton.

Dates: 1972-1979

Lesbian and Gay Academic Union records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll2011-041
Abstract Correspondence, meeting minutes, manuscripts, publicity material, notes, financial records, photographs, membership records, conference administrative records, grant applications, bylaws, articles of incorporation, and other records documenting activities of the Lesbian and Gay Academic Union (LGAU), 1973 to 1987. Founded in 1973 in New York, New York, the Gay Academic Union consisted of a national network of college and university chapters. In 1978, the national headquarters moved to Los...
Dates: 1973-1987

Los Angeles City College Gay and Lesbian Student Union records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2014-043
Abstract Meeting minutes, correspondence, administrative records, event flyers, scholarship fund records, clippings, photographs, and publicity material, bulk 1979-1980, documenting the activities of the Gay and Lesbian Student Union of Los Angeles City College (LACC). The organization was established in 1979 and "dedicated to the direction and promotion of scholastic, social, cultural, and political activities beneficial to the gay student union and the gay community." Michael Lombardi served as...
Dates: 1973-1982

Queer Frontiers Conference Records

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Coll2011-095
Abstract

Administrative records, floppy disk, notes, student newspapers, correspondence, flyers, posters, registration forms, financial documents, and other material from Queer Frontiers, a conference held at the University of Southern California in March of 1995. Queer Frontiers was an annual national graduate student conference for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) scholars, activists, and artists.

Dates: 1995

Ware R. Smith diaries

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2008-029
Abstract

Journals and notebooks kept by Ware R. Smith, an openly gay teacher/professor and writer who died of AIDS in 1986. The bulk of the collection consists of Smith's fifteen journals and the loose items he stored in them, documenting his life experience from 1952 to shortly before his death. The collection also includes two notebooks of his writings from 1956-1958.

Dates: 1952-1986

Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA) records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2012-176
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of administrative records of the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA), 1981-1995, bulk 1987-1995. SOLGA (originally the Anthropological Research Group on Homosexuality (ARGOH), 1978-1987) is a group within the American Anthropological Association (AAA) created to advocate for the "the 'scholarly legitimacy' of anthropological studies on homosexuality," as well as "recognition within the association."

Dates: 1979-1996