April Culture Series:
Dee Jae Cox & Michelle Weiss: "The Los Angeles Women's Theater Project"
The Co-Founders will explore their history, future events and their mission to create opportunities for women in the performing arts.
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909 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213) 741-0094
Sunday, April 18, 2010
2:00pm-5:00pm
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Greetings !
April is here and we are still reeling from our good news regarding the NEH Grant! We have many things in store for you over the coming months including our Culture Series this Sunday and our ONE Queer Film Fest next month.
Read on to find out more about these and other fascinating activities at ONE Archives.
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| Always trying to bring you new and innovative activities, ONE Archives is proud to announce our first Short Film Festival. A fun activity for a Sunday afternoon, we will host an afternoon of queer culture on the big screen.
Join us as we link our history and our future through an array of stories told through short films. Films will screen from 3 - 5 PM with a rooftop after party featuring DJ music and cash bar.
All proceeds will benefit ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archivesand will help preserve the rich history of our LGBT community.
When:Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Location:Downtown Independent, 251 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, California 90012
Tickets are available for sale at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/107516.
Films featured include:
Liberation of Griffith Park (1971) / Matt Spero
Queers take over Griffith Park for a "Gay-In"
Door Prize (2007) / Zsa Zsa Gershick
Public Restrooms are always an adventure for this trans, two-spirit, butch boi lesbian.
Tea Room Scene (1975) / Richard Silverthorn
A USC student struggles to accept his homosexuality in the 1970s.
Green Room (2007) / Matt Palazzolo
The parallels of queer youth and digital society collide.
Chicks in White Satin (1994) / Elaine Holliman & Jason Schneider
Oscar-nominated documentary tells the story of a Jewish lesbian wedding.
El Abuelo (2008) / Dino Dinco
Capturing the love of another "vato" with the perfect crease.
Commercials (1980s) / Charles Pierce
Laugh your ass off to these satirical TV commercials.
Damelo Todo trailer (2010) / Wu Tsang & Ernesto Foronda
The creativity and struggles of Central American transgender women who find refuge in LA's Silver Platter bar.
Queerer Than Thou (2008) / Kalil Cohen & Tera Greene
Who is the queerest of them all?
Some of Your Best Friends (1971) / Ken Robinson
The rise of the Gay Liberation Front and America's first Pride Parade in Los Angeles.
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Edward Westrick Collection on
Veterans C.A.R.E.
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In early 1984,
following California Governor Deukmejian's veto of AB1 (a California
state gay rights measure), writer and health administrator Jim Highland
began meeting regularly with fellow veterans to discuss issues relevant to the
gay and lesbian community. By May of
that year, the group, which had grown to approximately 30 people, began
developing a charter, bylaws and incorporation papers, and soon the Veterans
Council for American Rights and Equality, Inc. (Veterans CARE) was founded in
July 1984.
First public appearance of Veterans C.A.R.E. Jim Highland 1st officer of National Gay and Lesbian Association.  |
Veterans CARE's
major activities included fighting discrimination on behalf of former service
members and upgrading "dishonorable" discharges to "honorable"; organizing West
Hollywood's first Veterans' Day Parade and Vietnam Memorial; taking an active
role in the 1987 March on Washington; and publishing a monthly newsletter, Aware. In 1991, lesbian veteran Miriam Ben-Shalom, working with other veterans and Veterans CARE officers, organized the national organization, the
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Veterans of America (GLBVA), with local chapters
throughout the United States.
Subsequently, the Los Angeles Council of Veterans CARE became the Los Angeles chapter of the
GLBVA.
The Edward Westrick
Collection on Veterans CARE is now available for research at ONE Archives. Collected by former Veterans CARE Commander,
Edward Westrick, materials include papers, photographs and memorabilia
documenting activities of the Los Angeles Veterans CARE and the National GLBVA.
- Loni Shibuyama, Archivist
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NEH Matching Funds
| Last newsletter we shared the exciting news that we've received the
largest grant for an LGBT organization from the National Endowment for
the Humanities--$272,086.00. Great news, but we need matching funds for
that grant and we are turning to you, our community, for help. ONE is
constantly in need of general operating funds for salaries for our
support positions, such as our Office Specialist who answers your calls
and e-mails. We need archival materials for our art collections and to
help us save our audio collections. There is still so much to do to
save our history. We need your support and donations. Many of you
will be the recipients of checks from the Federal and State Income Tax
folks in the next few weeks. When you receive your check, think of
ONE and consider sending us a donationof $100 or more. We're doing our bit and we need your help
to meet the goals of this incredible grant. Please make a donation online today every bit helps!
Sincerely,
Joseph R. Hawkins, Ph.D
Anthropology and Gender Studies
University of Southern California
President ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
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