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Mass media and gays -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 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

Jehan Agrama collection on the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Los Angeles (GLAAD/LA)

 Collection — Box 1: Series Series 1.; Series Series 2.
Identifier: Coll2008-049
Abstract Correspondence, agendas, notes, minutes, programs, reports, and materials collected by Jehan Agrama in her role as Co-President and as member of the Board of Directors of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Los Angeles (GLAAD/LA), 1989-1994. The collection includes documents related to the formation of GLAAD/USA, GLAAD Media Awards programs, 1994-2000; and documents outreach to the Los Angeles Unified School District and Rebuild Los Angeles (RLA) Racial Harmony and Discourse...
Dates: 1989-2001; Majority of material found within 1991 - 1993

Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2013-005
Abstract Meeting minutes, event records, promotional material, clippings, photographs, correspondence, membership records, newsletters and other material, 1980-1992, from the Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Entertainment Industry (AGLA), formed to encourage the responsible portrayal of gays and lesbians in entertainment media. Materials in the collection document the organization's most active period, particularly when it produced an annual awards show for gay and lesbian representation...
Dates: circa 1980-1992

Sunny Bak photography collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2013-037
Abstract The collection includes Bak's medium format color transparenices/unmounted slides of Ashley Herrin and Catherine Angiel and alternative layouts for the June 21, 1993, Newsweek cover story, "Lesbians Come Out Strong." The collection also contains Bak's images of lesbian women and couples on 10% Productions and G Gallery greeting cards, postcards and posters. Bak photographed hundreds of entertainers including members of 10,000 Maniacs, Madonna, and...
Dates: 1993-2002

Howard A. Fox Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Coll2011-048
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, press releases, public service announcement texts, and other material documenting gay activist Howard Fox's work in 1973 to hold Los Angeles-area network television affiliates accountable for programming demeaning to gays and lesbians.

Dates: 1973

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) records

 Collection — Box 1: Series Series 1.
Identifier: Coll2012-173
Abstract Organizational records of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), 1985-2009, and primarily of the Media Monitoring and Response Committee, 1992-2011. The committee collected materials regarding LGBT defamation in the media, used email mailing lists to inform the LGBT community, and organized campaigns against people and institutions spreading anti-LGBT views. The records include meeting agendas, email mailing lists, and project files, including extensive records documenting...
Dates: 1985-2011

IMRU Radio sound recordings and administrative records

 Collection — Box 1: Series Series 3; Series Series 2
Identifier: Coll2014-112
Abstract

Open reel audiotape, audiocassettes, compact discs, production files, administrative records, banners, and other material, 1970-2011, from IMRU Radio, an LGBT radio program airing on KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles. The Gay Radio Collective first produced IMRU in 1974. The bulk of the collection is sound recordings and production files for IMRU's full episodes, feature segments, news segments, community event calendars, airchecks, promotional segments, and outtakes.

Dates: 1970-2011

Kansas City Trucking Co. Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Coll2011-063
Abstract Promotional photography stills, publicity, publication lists, cast lists, correspondence, press releases, and other material documenting the publicity for the release of Kansas City Trucking Co. (1976), a film by gay filmmaker Tim Kincaid, also known as Joe Gage. In the 1970s, Kincaid wrote and directed a series of films known as "The Kansas City Trilogy," which were notable for "portrayals of male/male sex occuring between rugged, masculine...
Dates: 1976-1977

Lambda Amateur Radio Club Hollywood Chapter Records

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Coll2012-168
Abstract

Constitution, meeting minutes, correspondence, flyers, directories, financial records and other material from the Hollywood chapter of the Lambda Amateur Radio Club, 1991-1992.

Dates: 1991 - 1992

The Laughing Policeman Protest Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Coll2011-062
Abstract

Clippings, flyers, interview transcript, news releases, notes, and studio publicity materials documenting protests in San Francisco directed against the motion picture, The Laughing Policeman, a police thriller released in 1973. Gay and lesbian rights activists objected to the representation of gay men and gay social life in the movie, which revolved around a mass-murderer with a secret gay identity.

Dates: 1973