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Information packets, workshop material, letters to the editor, clippings, flyers, poetry, and gay organization material, circa 1970-2007, from writer and educator Brian Kevin Beck from Whitewater, Wisconsin. Included are articles and manifesto-like writings regarding homosexuality, homophobia, and the intersections of art and activism.

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Robert Figueroa photographs of the Westboro Baptist Church protest at Pedro Zamora's funeral, November 1994; Long Beach Gay Pride Parade, 1995; and Los Angeles Gay Rodeo, 1995.

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...

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Press material, flyers, clippings, correspondence, notes, protest signs, audiocassettes, and a VHS videocassette from Tom Mertz documenting the activities of the Los Angeles chapter of Queer Nation, 1990-2000. The collection documents the actions Queer Nation/LA organized and the media attention it received, including a zap on the Arsenio Hall Show in 1991.

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The collection consists of periodicals, correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, flyers, catalogs, brochures, subscription forms, greeting cards and mass mailings created by the National Socialist League (NSL) and other related organizations, 1928-2011. The NSL was a Los Angeles based organization of gay nazis from the 1970s to the mid-1980s run mainly by Russell R. Veh.

Abstract Letters and cards of support addressed to gay teenager Robert M. Rosenkrantz, who in 1985 shot and killed the schoolmate who gay-bashed and outed him, during the first months (July 1986-March 1987) of his prison term. Many correspondents write of their own experiences coming out, and a few enclose photographs of themselves. The bulk of the letters date from October through December 1986, following the publication of Dan Siminoski's article on Rosenkrantz, "A Killing in Calabasas",...