January Culture Series:
"A Transformative Time: 1979-1985:
The Gay Community Services Center to the Beginning of West
Hollywood."
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909 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213) 741-0094
Sunday, January 17, 2010
2:00pm-5:00pm
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Greetings !
We have many great things in store for you in 2010! Two of these are revealed here and more will be coming in January's newsletter. We give thanks to all of our steadfast supporters and volunteers for all they have contributed over 2009. We look forward to working with them again in 2010!!! Have a safe holiday season and we look forward to seeing you all at ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives or at our Gallery & Museum in the new year!
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ONE Archives Gallery and Museum
First Show of the Year
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The ONE Archives Gallery & Museum is proud to announce a retrospective - The Works of Tom Ellis.
A Los Angeles painter and recent winner of the American Art Awards - 2009, Tom's works range from abstract to the figurative, and exotic to landscapes. The opening night is Saturday January 16, 2010 from 5 to 8PM. Light refreshments will be served and The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will be on hand as our special guests. Be sure to join us!!
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OUR LEGACY
by Bud Thomas
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One thing that has surprised me since I started working at
ONE earlier this year, is the cost and
the professional & volunteer/staff time involved in archival preservation.
Something comparable most of you may have experienced is
going through an odd box of old family photos and finding the photos stuck
together, or finding an old family letter yellowed and faded with time, or an
important newspaper clipping eaten away. It is a heartbreaking loss to be
unable to view a treasured memento of a hard fought past.
This is something we battle daily at ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives. The difference is that our
charge is to maintain these precious pieces of y/our LGBTQ history, for current and future generations, and to
make them accessible to the public for time immemorial.
This is Our
Legacy; our collective social
and personal histories, which reveal the facts of the struggle for LGBTQ Equality, our wins, our losses, and our
creative, fascinating & unflinching spirit; Our Culture.
To professionally archive the contents of one banker's box
(like one you would pick up at an office supply store) filled with documents
and photographs requires many special supplies.
3 Archival Document Storage Cases $7.00 ea.
1 Archival Photo Box $5.70
ea.
100 Archival Acid Free File Folders $34.30
3 Boxes of Photo Sleeves (25 in ea) $35.55 ea.
Total in supplies
alone $167.65
This does not even cover the professional hours required to
get the "collection" into a state where it can be entered into a database and
accessed by the public.
To make this "Collection" accessible requires a professional
archivist, whose median hourly wage[1] is
$21.64. It could take a professional archivist anywhere between 2 days to one
week to process the materials contained
in the box noted above depending on how organized it was to begin with, or how
complex the materials included were. Imagine if someone you did not know handed
you a box of papers and photographs and you need to make sense of them,
organize them and put them into an order that others could understand. That is
what an archivist does, along with many, many other things. In essence labor
would cost $432.80.
All in all, to process the simple box of treasures
calculating labor and supplies it costs $600.45. This breaks down to $1.65 a day for a
year, far less than a cup of coffee from Starbucks.
We are a privately funded Non-Profit organization. The
building we are housed in is generously donated by USC. The gallery space on Robertson Blvd is
generously donated by the city of West
Hollywood. We only have three paid professionals
working for us. The entire board of ONE are all Volunteers. No one here makes
an exorbitant salary; we aren't putting in new carpet and drapes, or driving
around in imported sports cars, we are just trying to preserve something that
we know to be important, Our Legacy.
At this point, due to the economy, and the end of a
substantial grant under which we have been operating, it leaves us without
funds to keep our archivists employed after March 2010. We are appealing to you
during this season of giving to dig into your hearts and remember us. I would
like to believe "Yes Virginia
there is a Santa Claus" for the One
National Gay and Lesbian Archives.
All of your donations count! Every dollar goes directly to
supporting the archiving of materials and keeping us up and running; keeping
our legacy alive for generations to come. If each of you reading this could
just contribute what you can, it would certainly make a difference in keeping
our legacy intact. Please contact me Bud Thomas regarding the many donation
options available to you, including a monthly donation option that we recently
made available. Each one of you can really make the difference here and step up
to the plate and be our "Santa Claus."
[1] Reported
by the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics for May 2008
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Save the Date
First Culture Series Event of 2010!
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The First installment of our Winter Spring Culture Series, January 17, 2010 be  ginning at 2pm ONE will host
"A Transformative Time: 1979-1985:
The Gay Community Services Center to the Beginning of West
Hollywood."
Steve Schulte, original city councilmember of West Hollywood & the
former executive director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, will speak about this exciting period in history that set us on the road to here we are today.
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Volunteer at ONE! |
 ONE is starting on several new projects and the need for volunteers is ever-increasing. Volunteering at ONE allows you to experience GLBT history firsthand and to have a real impact on preserving that history. Stop by the archives during our open hours or send an email to askone@onearchives.org to learn more.
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Thank
you for reading our newsletter and for making our work possible. With
your help, we are able to offer our Culture Series events & can continue to create exhibits in our Gallery and Museum We can keep
our archivists working hard for you and your history. Especially in these
challenging times, we need your support to continue preserving our past and
securing our future. Please make a donation online today.
Sincerely,
Joseph R. Hawkins, Ph.D
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
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